Ooooh. Well, now he can spend all he wants. I wonder what liberals think about the huge amount of money in politics now.
Hey, just out of curiousity—I remember President Bush putting ON HIS WEB SITE the name of every contributor to his campaign and the amount they gave.
Is B. Hussein doing the same?
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The campaign went even further in answers to a questionnaire sent to the various political campaigns in September 2007 by the Midwest Democracy Network. The questionnaire posed a very simple question to the candidates: “If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?”
You can read Obama’s response here. The candidate highlighted the simple answer “Yes” and elaborated as follows:
In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/02/the_obama_pledge.html