Goldfarb points out that Barack Obama is getting ready to backtrack on his promise to accept public financing. On the left, there will be claims that he didn’t exactly promise to accept public financing; that he merely suggested he might. The last time there was a flareup over Obama’s pledge, his supporters pointed to this New York Times piece from March, 2007, when Obama pledged to “aggressively pursue an agreement” with his Republican opponent. They conveniently forgot his statement to the Midwest Democracy Network: