MyDD :: Obama's liability against McCain

Obama's liability against McCain

by Airb330, Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 11:46:23 AM EST

Remember when John Edwards decided to take public financing? Kos and others seemed to think that could hurt the Democratic Party. We have the money advantage right now and are likely to keep it. So why does Obama get a pass on this issue? McCain is very likely to be the Republican nominee. If Obama is ours, he has a huge liability. He and McCain made a pact to use public financing. That would give up our enormous cash edge we will likely have. Why isn't this an issue against Obama?

Just for reference, here are some of the 'pact' details:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/02/us/pol itics/02fec.html

Tags: barack obama, john mcCain, 2008 general election, daily kos (all tags)

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Re: Obama's liability against McCain (2.00 / 2)

I agree that this is a big deal. Thanks for pointing this out. This had been forgotten by most, but it is indeed a huge problem, as that agreement would hurt us the most. We are poised to have a big fundraising advantage over the GOP this fall, and this kills all of that. Now that we will almost certainly have to deal with McCain, what a stupid, stupid move that was.

Can Obama renege on this boneheaded deal? Probably not without a lot of damage to his integrity, believablity, etc.

by georgep on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 12:10:40 PM EST

McCain hasn't accepted it yet. (2.00 / 1)

Post on this at DKos yesterday. While Edwards has borrowed against the public financing (no clue what happens NOW). McCain has not. Since he has taken no money he could back out of accepting it right now.

by MNPundit on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 12:34:06 PM EST
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Re: McCain hasn't accepted it yet. (none / 0)

Why would McCain back out of the agreement? It looks like this is going to be a very big fundraising year for us. It would be in his interest to accept the agreement, and with that we are cutting our own advantage away.

by georgep on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 12:49:04 PM EST
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Re: McCain hasn't accepted it yet. (none / 0)

Back out of accepting public monies?

So that the Republican Donors could open the spigots for his national campaign.

by MNPundit on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 04:40:25 PM EST
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Re: McCain hasn't accepted it yet. (none / 0)

Where are they now? All signs point to us having a fundraising advantage on that level. A rather big one. Why would we give that away?

by georgep on Wed Jan 30, 2008 at 08:40:42 PM EST
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