Obama is making noises about abandoning his pledge to use public financing for the general election. For conservatives, this is kind of a non-starter. We aren’t supposed to believe in public financing anyway, and Allahpundit pretty well sums up the predicament McCain is going to find himself in come fall: “Gulp.” Still, there’s something troubling about this:
A few weeks ago Marc Ambinder previewed the logic–that Obama could somewhat reasonably claim to be running a publicly financed campaign because he draws support from a million or more small donors. But like Obama’s pledge to fight special interests last week–which was made at an AFL-CIO event–it seems more than a little disingenuous to make these comments while at a high-priced fundraiser in Washington, DC. What’s disconcerting is how oblivious Obama can be to the appearance of hypocrisy. It looks arrogant.
