{"id":11686,"date":"2011-10-18T00:57:32","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2011-10-18T00:57:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-18T04:57:32","slug":"obamas-campaign-finance-hypocrisy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11686\/obamas-campaign-finance-hypocrisy\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama&#8217;s Campaign Finance Hypocrisy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time,\u00a0candidate Obama promised to participate in the federal campaign finance program in a sop to free speech restrictionists.\u00a0 Of course, <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/fact-checker\/2008\/06\/obama_reneges_on_public_financ.html\" target=\"_blank\">he reneged as soon as he could<\/a>, claiming that since the system is &#8220;broken&#8221; it was his right to collect as much money as he could\u00a0 from willing donors.<\/p>\n<p>Fast-forward to today, and it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/17\/us\/politics\/big-cash-edge-powers-obama-in-drive-for-2012-election.html?_r=1\" target=\"_blank\">President Obama has long forgotten <\/a>his former aversion to privately financed campaigns:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[The President]\u00a0can also raise large contributions for the Democratic National Committee \u2014 topping out at $30,800 per donor rather than the $5,000 limit on contributions to candidates \u2014 that are helping finance the party\u2019s broader efforts to help Democrats up and down the ballot. During the last three months, the committee has already transferred funds totaling more than $1.3 million to Democratic organizations in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, according to the party\u2019s filings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I don&#8217;t begrudge any candidate for choosing a free(r) market approach to campaign finance.\u00a0 What&#8217;s galling in Obama&#8217;s case, though,\u00a0is that once again we have an example of how brazenly opportunistic he is when it comes to basic principles.\u00a0 Whether it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cato.org\/pub_display.php?pub_id=13732\" target=\"_blank\">promising people they can keep their health insurance after Obamacare<\/a> or campaigning as a post-partisan then saying Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/video\/2011\/10\/17\/obama_gop_wants_dirtier_air_dirtier_water_less_people_with_health_insurance.html\" target=\"_blank\">want folks to drink dirty water<\/a>, the man seems incapable of keeping his word.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The joke on some politicians is a truth applied to the president: you know he&#8217;s lying when his lips are moving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once upon a time,\u00a0candidate Obama promised to participate in the federal campaign finance program in a sop to free speech restrictionists.\u00a0 Of course, he reneged as soon as he could, claiming that since the system is &#8220;broken&#8221; it was his right to collect as much money as he could\u00a0 from willing donors. Fast-forward to today, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[914,143,2622,35,1447],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2012-presidential-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-campaign-finance","tag-obamacare","tag-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11690,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}