McCain calls Obama's opt out "a big deal"

McCain makes a "big deal" out of someone changing their stance on an issue. By that premise, McCain has a laundry list of "big deals".

The sad part is that Barack was going to destroy him in the general election anyway. Now, since McCain is going to be grossly underfunded by comparison, we can fully expect the far-right republicant smear campaign to kick into high gear. As if they needed a catalyst anyway.

Being in Florida, I think it's a much bigger deal that McCain has changed his position on offshore oil wells. McCain has become another Romney, when it come to flips and flops. If he could raise as much money as Obama, he would do the same thing.

If anyone knows breaking one's word, it's McCain.

Whetehr or not you support Obama you should be alarmed by this. Obama gave his word in writing and now has gone back on that. Big money will now be funding Obamas campaign. Public Financing is there so that doesnt happen. Obama is a huge hypocrite and now has lost the ability the chastise McCain on any honesty or flip flopping issues.

As usual, John McBush doesn't have a leg to stand on.
McCain has been breaking campaign finance laws during this election otherwise known as the "McCain/Feingold campaign finance law"
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/john-mccain-breaks-campai_b_88960.html

That's right kids, McCain has been breaking the law that he himself wrote. What a "swell" guy.

McCain has changed every position he has ever held. Obama will point this out, have no fear.

I have to agree with Vinny on this one eventhoug 99% of the time I disagree with him.

I guess we should let the American public decide. If they want Obama to opt into public funds, they will not send in donations.

what? they say they want to send him more money? how can that be?

This will be a huge deal in November......or not. With $5 gas on the horizon, this is a 'nothing' issue. Although with the week McBush is having, it's an issue he'll try to make for today.

This would be great for McCain if his word was a reliable beacon worth a damn. But since he changes positions as frequently as most of us change our socks, he's just setting himself up for a close examination of his numerous reversals, his absolutely opportunistic, weather vane "principles." Also worth pointing out: McCain initially said he would rein in the 527's. But he's gone soft on that like everything else, and is planning to leverage the enormous funding going into that non-public financed attack machine.

Long story short - cry me a river, Mac.

No More Lobbyist!!!!!!

Senator Obama has said many times, "Lobbyist will not run my White House."

Getting rid of the extremely negative impact of lobbyist is one of the major reasons I support Senator Obama.

McCain has flip-flopped on many things. Yesterday he told the citizens of Missouri about a gas tax holiday he knows Congress will never approve.

Prior to McCain's event in Missouri yesterday, Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri said in a conference call that McCain's plan would cost the state 6,000 jobs and $167 million in federal gas tax dollars for Missouri's roadways.

"The people of Missouri can smell a phony deal a mile away," she said. "Frankly, that’s what John McCain’s gas tax is. He knew it wasn’t going to have any meaningful impact on people’s real pain – our dependence on foreign oil."

McCaskill said it was "a promise he knew he would never have to deliver on."

The "Could McCain Have Come Up with a More Ill-Suited Economic Advisor Than Phil Gramm?" is one of many examples for the damage caused by lobbyist specifically gas prices and the subprime housing damage.

http://www.alternet.org/election08/87999/?cID=936047#c936047

Isn't this the very same guy who used his public financing application to secure a loan for his primary campaign and then opted out (illegally?) so he could spend beyond the limit? What a schmuck! The only reason McBush supports public financing now is because Obama will raise more money than he can.

Was it a "big deal" when McCain decided not to accept public financing in the primaries, after he had already filed for it? The FEC thinks so. McCain is a huge hypocrite on this issue.

The man is allowed to change his mind. There is a old saying, a wise man changes is mind and a fool never does. So, who looks like the fool right now, its not Obama.

It is a big deal, just ask Barack Obama 2006: http://abcnews.go.com/video/playerIndex?id=5204062
He's allowed to change his mind, but he shouldn't lie to voters about why he's doing it. He said he believed in public financing and extolled its virtues in 2006. He said for five dollars a year the taxpayers would save considerable money publicly financing campaigns. Now he says that the lobbyists he gets his money from are better than public financing (don't even try the lie that he doesn't take lobbyist money on me).
He even calls the public financing system "broken" because he raised more money from lobbyists and others than he could get from public financing. At least be a man and admit it, Barack. You're in the company of Richard Nixon in believing special interest money is better and more honest than no-strings-attached public financing.

This one's for you, No Lobbyists. You'd better not vote for Obama if that's your story: http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-15-obama_N.htm
He has millions in lobbyist donations, just check usa today's charts.

This is a big deal. He lied. Again.

I can see a GOP ad: first Barack's statemets. This his denial. Then another statement. Another denial.

Should be a long-g-g-g-g-g-g- ad

Jeffy,
Individuals work as lobbyists can donate to any campaign that they want to (Obama) just like everyone else can.
McCain on the other hand has a campaign that is totally run BY LOBBYISTS, lock, stock and barrel.
John McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, and yet he said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEROVh8zK4

Jeffy,
Individuals working as lobbyists can donate to any campaign that they want to (Obama) just like everyone else can.
McCain on the other hand has a campaign that is totally run BY LOBBYISTS, lock, stock and barrel.
John McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, and yet he said "I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to."
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gEROVh8zK4

This is more than hypocritical after all of the abuse the Obama campaign gave to Clinton for wanting to count Michigan and Florida, when it turned out that their votes would actually make a difference.

"THE RULE OF LAW"... "She agreed!!!"

You would have thought the idea of not counting votes had been created by Moses himself.

She renegged on an agreement that was not moral. He is just plain going back on his word.

Liar.

Jeff-

Are you too blinded by your worship of McCain to see that what he did in the Primaries with the public financing was an even bigger deal?

Your Demi-God, withdrew from public financing after he said he wouldn't. Just like Obama. But there was a difference that made McCain's actions even worse. He had already enrolled in the public financing system. The FEC believes that he could not withdraw after signing up for the system. McCain ignored that. In doing so, he probably violated Federal Regulations. If it wasn't for the impass in getting FEC commissioners seated, McCain would more thasn likely have been found to be in violating the campaign spending limits that he had agreed to when he enrolled in the system.

Open your eyes and look at McCain's actions. Put the blind unreasoning partisanship aside for a minute, and I think you'll find that you should be neraged at both candidates on this issue, or neither candidate.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022103141.html

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_8363075

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/us/politics/09donate.html

mc liar is at it again

more honest than no-strings-attached public financing.

Posted by: Jeff | June 19, 2008 9:36 PM

While Obama has kicked McBushs butt in fund raising, the republican party has raised more than the democratic. So the republican party would have more money to run those "swiftboat" ads from the rabid attack machine. Of course there were no strings attached to good ole' McBush. He's (Keating) above (Keating) all (Keating) that.