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Time and time again, Barack Obama has railed against Super PACs... those entities which can spend unlimited funds to advance an agenda and unofficially work to promote or oppose a candidate. Now, despite all the rhetoric about those bad Republicans and their Super PACs, it appears that the smell of money is just too much to resist.
Fox News has some great quotes from previous Obama speeches regarding unlimited spending by these kinds of groups:
"Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign companies -- to spend without limit in our elections. Well, I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, and worse, by foreign entities."
-- President Obama in his Jan. 27, 2010 State of the Union address, chiding justices of the Supreme Court in person for the court's decision to overturn the McCain-Feingold campaign finance laws.
Or how about this one...
"It could be the oil industry, it could be the insurance industry, it could even be foreign-owned corporations. You don't know because they don't have to disclose. Now that's not just a threat to Democrats, that's a threat to our democracy."
-- President Obama railing against outside political groups at a campaign rally in Philadelphia on Oct. 10, 2010
The news story by Chris Stirewalt also brings up an interesting point:
If Super PACs and outside groups were as wicked as Obama said they were in 2008 and 2010, one might think that he would have done more on the subject than exhort Congress and chide the Supreme Court. If shadowy figures and foreign nationals really are polluting the political process, wouldn't that be worthy of some "we can't wait" action or even some legislation during the time that Democrats held a supermajority in both houses.
Instead of working to reform the process, Obama is now embracing it. This doesn't sit well with Democrat Russ Feingold, who helped author the so-called campaign finance reform legislation:
By embracing the super-PACs, Feingold said Obama was embracing a decision he previously had criticized.
"The president is wrong to embrace the corrupt corporate politics of Citizens United through the use of super-PACs -- organizations that raise unlimited amounts of money from corporations and the richest individuals, sometimes in total secrecy," Feingold said. "It's not just bad policy; it's also dumb strategy."
According to The Hill, "Obama campaign told big-money donors late Monday evening to begin writing their checks to Priorities USA, a top Democratic 'super-PAC,' and make the president's reelection effort competitive with its deep-pocketed GOP opponents."
It certainly takes money to run an election. It also takes integrity. Condemning Super PACS, doing nothing to change the process, and then embracing them, shows that Obama will get plenty of one, while losing all of the other.
February 7, 2012 @ 2:22 pm
Did Obama ever have integrity?
February 7, 2012 @ 6:13 pm
Bob—are you saying that Obama went back on his word? Really??
Sounds like business as usual. If he were Pinnochio, there would be a bridge spanning from the White House all the way to Kenya.
February 7, 2012 @ 4:09 pm
Obama is all about Obama.Nothing else. Every decision he makes is weighed to see what effect it makes on his chances to be re-elected. The emperor has no clothes.
February 7, 2012 @ 4:25 pm
You have to face it……don’t believe anything that comes out of his mouth!
He says one thing and does the complete opposite. Everything Obama says or does is for one purpose….to be re-elected so he can “finish” his destruction of the USA. Remember his rhetoric about “shared sacrifice” and how horrible those millionares are because they won’t give him more tax $$$ …..then he and Moochele go on vacations, golfing and having parties at the White House every other week!
This only proves that he needs to be replaced in Nov 2012!
February 7, 2012 @ 5:11 pm
He’s been on a lot fewer vacations than W and a lot less Camp David too. And he’ll be campaigning with his wife and not a former mistress like Gingrich is.
February 7, 2012 @ 6:18 pm
to missmarple,
GW’s vacations were mostly to his ranch which is completely different and far less expensive than Obama’s vacations all over the world.
February 7, 2012 @ 4:39 pm
Can you say hypocrite!
ABO! Anybody but Obama! Obama has to go!
February 7, 2012 @ 5:08 pm
It was a bad Court decision. But if he’s up against the Kochs, the Las Vegas casinos and the other big money boys, he’s got to have a super-pac or he’ll be swamped.
February 7, 2012 @ 7:25 pm
Poor Obama. I guess all the money from his Hollywood buddies, Soros, Buffett, the media, the radical gays and pro-abortion lovers isn’t enough!
February 7, 2012 @ 5:09 pm
Maybe he is afraid that this time around his campaign funds might get more scrutiny unlike the last time.
February 7, 2012 @ 6:14 pm
Obama would sell his illegal alien aunt for money if there were somebody stupid enough to buy her.
February 7, 2012 @ 6:22 pm
His people couldn’t even get the Martin Luther King Memorial right why would we expect him to get anything else right. Presidential Nightmares = Obama as lame-duck president. One and done- or God help the world.
February 11, 2012 @ 12:22 pm
Flip-Flop! It’s what this President does best.
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