http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080619/ap_on_el_pr/obama_money

Obama opts out of public funding for the general election.  His excuses border on extremely twisted logic (aka fallacies).  Obama claims that, even though McCain will get public funding, so many 527's are going to spend big bucks for the Republicans in this election that he would be ham-stringed by taking public funding even though he promised it.   Is that true?  Not really... in fact the biggest 527's that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars in this election are liberal 527s like Moveon.org.  The liberal pro-Obama 527's will outspend the Republican 527's by numbers that could approach hundreds of millions of dollars whether Obama took public financing or not.  The Republicans don't have the big buck 527's lining up like they did in '04.  He also called public financing "broken".  I'd love to know why he praised it and embraced it when it was politically beneficial for him to do so back when he was an underdog but now that it would slow down his money train it is "broken".  It is the same system, same set-up, and same delivery as it was in 06 and 07, so why the big change?  How can one promise to be honest and to change the way Washington works if they can't even keep up with their own campaign promises?  And since when is using shoddy excuses a change in Washington's culture?  Obama is just another typical politician who wants to have it both ways and will get away with it if the media and political opponents don't call him on it.  The verdict is in, he is guilty - but not charged.