Above is footage of Barack Obama rejecting public financing for the general election. It has to be watched to be believed – please check it out. Note the angry sense of victimization he uses to justify his flip/flop. Now courtesy of the wayback machine, here’s Obama’s position on the same matter just four short months ago. Jim Geraghty calls our attention to the February 16 Washington Post:
AS RECENTLY as November, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was unequivocal about whether he would agree to take public financing for the general election if his Republican opponent pledged to do the same. “If you are nominated for president in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?” the Midwest Democracy Network asked in a questionnaire. Mr. Obama’s answer was clear. “Yes,” he wrote. “If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”
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