Barack Obama’s word is worthless
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Matt Walton
Published: June 22, 2008
Recently, Sen. Barack Obama broke a promise he made to the American people. He refused to take part in public financing for the general election. This contradicted a signed promise he made to all
Americans. Instead, Senator Obama has decided to opt out of his pledge and put politics above the most important thing he has to offer the American people — his word.
This decision by the freshman senator from Illinois proves that his word is worthless and that what he is saying now on the campaign trail is as good as dirt. This choice by Senator Obama begs us to ask
what promises will he break to the American people should he be elected President of the United States. It’s clear to me now that Senator Obama is not for the “change” in Washington he talks about,
but just a lot of potential broken promises.
MATT WALTON
Bridgewater
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Posted by ( willow703 ) on June 23, 2008 at 6:54 am
Not only did Sen. Obama go back on his word, he used phony excuses.
First, he said the “system” is broken. He didn’t know the “system” was broken when he signed that pledge? He didn’t know the “system” has been broken for over 200 years. He didn’t know that only the repairs necessary to keep it inching forward have ever been made? No ship of state can float on a sea of knowledge so shallow.
Second, he said, “Well, Johnny did it”.
We don’t accept that excuse from our children, why would we accept it from our president?
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Posted by ( QuestionAuthority ) on June 23, 2008 at 6:36 am
“Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics and the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan and Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right,“ McCain said in 2000.
Six years later, it is difficult to get a straight answer from McCain about his decision to deliver the commencement address at Liberty University, which Falwell founded.
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Politics/Story?id=1843506&page=1
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Posted by ( RonCharest ) on June 23, 2008 at 6:28 am
Last Year, Senator Obama stated he would “consider” public financing, and pledged to work to reform the campaign financing system.
Since then, we’ve seen Senator McCain flagrantly violate the very campaign finance laws he helped write. Republicans are raking in millions via unregulated 527’s to use in attack ads against Sen. Obama. Senator McCain also has hundreds of lobbyists working diligently to raise money via the very industries that have currently bought and paid for most Republican congressmen. Yet, with all this, Senator McCain is still lagging in fundraising compared to Senator Obama.
Senator Obama has raised millions of dollars from small contributors, with the average donation under $200 per person. He has banned any contributions from lobbyists and PACs, and is successfully pushing Democratic-supporting 527’s to also ban lobbyist’s money. He is enjoying a huge fundraising advantage over Senator McCain, and most of this is from private citizens who are now actively engaged in the election.
The Republican Party had no problems in previous election cycles, when their private lobbyist’s funds far exceeded Democratic fund, to forgo public financing. Now that the Republican Party is for once lagging the Democratic Party and Senator Obama in fundraising, they’re making a huge issue out of campaign financing.
I say “Wahhhhhhh.“
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Posted by ( raywilliams ) on June 23, 2008 at 5:39 am
These letters attacking Senator Obama are a clear sign the Republicans do not believe their candidate, John W. McBush, has any qualities to brag about and therefore must sling mud at Obama to in some way narrow the large lead in the polls enjoyed by Obama. It would not surprise me if these letters were written by Karl Rove & Co and faxed out across the country to supporters to send in to their local editorial pages
this week. Virginia has gone from Red to Purple to BLUE.
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