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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I don't know about "stepping away from principles". Did you actually see his announcement? It's being positioned as a highly principled move. Obama is the first candidate since the inception of those public funds after Watergate to decline them, because he says the system is broken and invites third party (what is it, 549? some number I'm too lazy to look up) groups like the Swiftboaters to circumvent the system and run attack ads on lobbyist money. He's inviting donations for the first campaign ever run that is outside the broken system. That's what he's saying.
I guess the fact that he can now clobber McCain financially doesn't hurt...
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Well, I was referring to the fact that he said he would "aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.” And now he isn't. I understand and agree with the reasons why he's doing it, but there it is. You can say he didn't explicitly promise to use the public financing system, but that's just mincing words, AFAICT.