Wow! LEM reporter Blasts Obama for Hypocrisy!
CNN’s Campbell Brown (the first member of the Liberal Establishment Media to do this, that I know of) spells it out with astonishing candor and irrefutable evidence, that Barack Obama broke a promise to abide by campaign spending limitations, simply because he knew that he could raise unprecedented amounts of money. It seems victory was more important to Mr. Obama than honor: Obama: “I will not run for President in 2008″ http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campbell.brown.obama/index.html.
Yet another distasteful irony of this election, as “Ken” points out in a comment on another post, that if McCain loses, it will be in large part because of the very regulations he was responsible for passing into law. McCain is abiding by the restrictions that he advocated on campaign finance and spending, while Obama is not.Â
Even more ironic, too, that it was always the Republicans that were excoriated in the press for attempting to “buy” elections with their extravagant spending.
Where is the criticism of Obama for shattering all spending records for a presidential election, for literally buying this election in the most brazen manner? This is after promising that he wouldn’t.
You have to feel kind of sorry for old McCain, who has been so skillfully and easily duped by Chicago-style politics. There is something endearing and sincere in McCain’s appeal to honor. There are things which his strong sense of integrity will not let him do; and some of these are very frustrating to his supporters. Going after Obama with regard to Jeremiah Wright is a case in point. Yet you have to respect a man who would rather lose an election than lose his honor, even if he defines that honor differently than we would.
To Obama and his base of support, honor went out of fashion with knights in shining armor. Their sense of duty is to one thing only: power. And power can be achieved only through victory. And victory, therefore, must come at any cost. What’s wrong with a little ballot-box-stuffing and illegally gotten campaign cash? Not a damn thing if it will help us win. Honor? Integrity? Belief in binding principles that are more important than any one person? Those are the illusions of fools . . . fools who lose elections.
