McCain - twisting in the wind

This is from Media Matters...

Tucker Bounds, who speaks for the McCain Campaign, said "Unlike Barack Obama, John McCain believes in keeping his word to the American people, and he will undergo public financing for the general election."

Ho, hum. Notice how it sounds like McCain's having some kind of dastardly operation? "Undergo?" Is public financing, using $84 million of taypayer money, that painful?

What Mr. Bounds did not say, of course, is that McCain "previously indicated that his decision over whether to take public financing if Obama opted out would depend not on 'keeping his word' but on whether it would be financially prudent to do so. Indeed, McCain senior adviser Charlie Black reportedly said, 'We could sit down in July or August and say, "Hey, we're raising a lot of money and maybe we should forgo it" ...'"

It isn't a matter of "keeping" one's word to the American public. It's a matter of making a financially-wise decision. Obama changed his mind (which he should be allowed to do -- McCain changes his mind two or three times every hour depending on which way the wind is blowing) because it made sense to do so. We're not talking about solemn "oaths" here, we're talking about a financial decision that impacts, not the American people (except in a very positive way--they don't have to pay for Obama's campaign!), but merely how Obama raises money for his race to the White House.

Ah, yes, McCain loves to twist things around for his own benefit.

The fact is that McCain is not raising enough money to opt out of public financing. He has no choice!

Another fact is that Obama is raising big bundles of moolah, enough so that he can be the first candidate ever to opt out of public financing since the law was changed in 1976!

The other thing that needs to be published loudly and clearly (which so far the MSM is strangely silent about) is that Obama is receiving the bulk of his money, not from corporate interests, but from the people - the regular folks out there on the seaboards and in the heartland!

Stuff that in your pipe, McCain!