‘No We Can’t!’
The most fantastic news of the day comes from the Hill: it is reported that some Obama supporters believe that the Obama campaign will be able to raise more than $100 million this month. That sounds like an awful lot (it is), but there is one minor problem; it is truly quite unlikely that he is going to raise such an amount of money.
$100 million is a gigantic amount. If he would be able to succeed in this amount, he will break all records. No, he would not merely break them, he would completely destroy them. That would be even more amazing considering that roughly 50% of Democratic voters did not support him the first week of June and that many of them still do not actively and passionately support the Democratic nominee. He would only be able to raise such an amount this month if the party would instantly rally behind him. Sadly for him, things will not go so fast.
What is, perhaps, most interesting about the report is that everybody seems to forget that Obama once promised to accept public funding. You should not, far-left voters, bloggers and politicians argued, be able to buy the presidency. No, there should be a level playing field.
Until the liberals are able to greatly outraise their conservative opponents of course. Suddenly, the rules of the game change. No principles are adhered to, it’s all about the money.
“Show me the money!” is something one does not hear progressives often say (except for when they talk about how the government can ‘help’ people by stealing money from… the people), but it has suddenly become their motto. All they need to do is to hire Cuba Gooding Jr., and before we know, “Show me the money” has become the Democratic Party’s anthem.
He made the pledge, he should keep it. I have no doubt that McCain will hold his feet to the fire on it.
Isn’t this all about one of them accepting the funding before the other does, and then the other not doing it? I think both of them should make a joint announcement of acceptance of public funding.
If you mean the lead up to it? No. It was when both McCain & Obams’s chances looked slim so both took the pledge to use Public funding in the General Election.