McCain Calls for Obama to Use Public Funding
February 16, 2008
tags: barack obama, John McCain
by S.C. Denney
New York Times: “Hammering Senator Barack Obama for a fourth straight day, Senator John McCain said here on Friday that he expects Senator Obama to abide by his pledge to use public financing for his general election if Mr. McCain does so as well…” (more)
David talked about Public Financing in a post earlier this month. From the looks of it, this would help out McCain more, since the money already raised for the general election would be required to be returned. Obama has already raised $6.1 million for the general election, nearly three times as much as McCain’s $2.2 million.
Seems as if Obama should honor his earlier statement, even though it could end up working against him if he does indeed get the party’s nomination.
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Kind of sucks when a new kind of politics comes back to bite you in the ass.
Hey guys, let’s keep the language a little more kid-friendly. Thanks.
Yeah it does suck. I don’t think Obama ever thought he would be the fundraising machine that he is.
Are there alot of kids who read this blog?
Kids who read political blogs are old enough to say/read “ass.”
How about that Public Funding?
It doesn’t matter whether they read it or not. Please keep it kid-friendly.
I’ve no problem with abiding by the house rules. You might want to post them somewhere if you want to enforce them.
I think by kid-friendly he means Harding Administrator friendly.
I think Chris was just trying to say that there are some of us who do not appreciate that type of language and would appreciate as a courtesy to us for anyone commenting to refraing from such language.
About the public funding, I think that it would be a good idea in terms of limiting the amount of money spent on peddling a candidate so that the candidates will be forced to publicize themselves more so through debates and things of that nature where both candidates will be there and get to have a dialogue. However, from what it sounds like, it will severely limit the amount that a person can give to a candidate (unless you checked that box on your tax return and donated your few dollars to the party’s candidate). I believe this to be more than should be done. I am one of the few conservatives that is completely behind the McCain-Feingold Act, but I believe this to be going too far in campaign financing. A person doesn’t know who the candidate is going to be for a particular party when they check that box on their tax return. I don’t think money should be raised solely based on a party basis, but rather a candidate basis. I believe that money should be donated to the Democratic candidate if it is intended to be for Obama (that is if he becomes the Democratic choice), and the same goes for the Republican side and McCain. If we donate solely based on a party rather than a candidate, it is just as bad as people who vote strictly along a party line when it comes to casting their ballots (even though they know little to nothing about any of the candidates that they are voting for). Just my “brief” synopsis of this.