When Enough Is Finally Enough-Obama Angers Media
Barack Obama is certainly a media favorite as this election season continues and there is no doubt that he gets better coverage than does John McCain. Still, it is possible, evidently, for Obama to anger media figures and related to that, consider Ruth Marcus enraged:
“When in the course of political events it becomes advantageous for a presidential candidate to dissolve a campaign promise, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that the candidate at least refrain from wrapping himself in the Declaration of Independence.
Not Barack Obama.
Click on Obama’s campaign Web site and you’ll find a virtual parchment scroll, complete with running tally of how many “citizens have declared their independence from a broken system by supporting the first presidential campaign truly funded by the people.”
Written as ” the PEOPLE,” in that familiar, evocative style — and with a July 4 deadline for signing up.
So Obama isn’t just junking his campaign pledge to participate in the public financing system if his opponent agreed to do the same. He isn’t just becoming the first presidential candidate since Watergate to run a campaign fueled entirely by private money.
No, he deserves praise for this selfless — scratch that, patriotic— move….”