“My understanding is that Senator Obama said he would (take public financing) and that now he’s saying he won’t… Actions speak louder than words. No matter how beautiful the words are and how well presented, you’ve got to get beyond the words. And now we’re seeing how the words don’t even mean what we thought they meant… So I think it raises some serious questions about what it is he stands for.”
(Craig Gilbert, “Clinton Blasts Obama On Financing,” Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 2/17/08)
“Congress must pass public financing to make our elections fair.”
MoveOn.Org, an organization that is blatantly PrObama
“‘Change We Can Believe In’ has been thrown overboard for ‘Political Expediency I Can Win With… Every time Obama’s change rhetoric meets his actual change record it evaporates in a cloud of hypocrisy.”
Todd Harris, a Republican analyst and aide to former presidential candidate Fred Thompson in the primary.
If “Lack of Personal Integrity” were a class, Obama would pass with an A+