pudge's Journal: An Honest Obama Fan

Liberal columnist and Friend of Obama (FOO) Mark Shields said of Obama on Friday:

Barack Obama made history this week. He became the first presidential nominee since Richard Nixon in 1972 to state that his campaign will be funded totally by private donations with no limits on spending.

It was a flip-flop of epic proportions. It was one that he could not rationalize or justify. His video was unconvincing. He looked like someone who was being kept as a hostage somewhere he was so absolutely unconvincing in it. It could not have passed a polygraph test. ...

But I really do think that Obama has made this so central to his mission, which is, "I'm going to change Washington, and you can't change Washington until you change the money, until you change the way we raise the money and who we raise it from." And he just basically went back on that.

And I think, in that sense, it can become a character issue against him, and I think that's potentially a problem.

Thank you, Mark Shields. There is hope for the media yet.

We need more examples of such honesty from the left.

Cross-posted on <pudge/*>.

It won't be an issue

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He's going to have such an enormous money edge, not to mention, I'm willing to bet 527's for him/against McCain easily out spend the the other side (thought I can't imagine they'll be well over 3 to 1 like they were for Kerry last time around). The fact that he's getting heat for this decision - especially given his prior stance and his horrible rationalization for the decision is certainly refreshing. Maybe he really can't walk on water after all. But this is just too inside baseball to have any effect