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Obama: Against 527′s before he was for them

Change (of mind) you can believe in, ladies and germs.  The latest in a long line of lies nuanced policy revisions, from Ed Morrissey:

Marc Ambinder has the latest reversal from the Chicago distributor of New Politics. Barack Obama has spent the past two years railing against the influence of 527 groups in election cycles, and has insisted that he will not tolerate their presence on his behalf in the general-election campaign. Just like his pledge not to bail out of the public-financing system and his promise not to raise soft money from lobbyists, though, it appears this commitment has expired, thanks to his sinking fortunes:

There’s been a spurt of 527 activity on behalf of Sen. John McCain, but Barack Obama campaign has suddenly gone silent on the subject.

That’s because, after of year of telling donors not to contribute to 527 groups, of encouraging strategists not to form them and of suggesting that outside messaging efforts would not be welcome in Obama’s Democratic Party, Obama’s strategists have changed their approach.

An Obama adviser privy to the campaign’s internal thinking on the matter says that,with less than two months before the election and with the realization that Republicans have achieved financial parity with Democrats, they hope that Democratic allies — what another campaign aide termed “the cavalry” — with come to Obama’s aid.

Sidebar: Right about now, Barry O may be second-guessing that decision to forego public financing…although his in-kind contributions from the MSM are a type of “general public” financing, no?

Anywho, the left’s “agent of change” is nothing more than a garden variety pandering politician who’s not above lying through his teeth and betraying principles if it suits his needs.

September 9, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, McCain, Obama