Bob Kerrey calls himself a hypocrite in today’s New York Post on public financing:
ON the question of public funding of presidential campaigns, we Democrats who strongly support Sen. Barack Obama’s candidacy and who previously supported limits on campaign spending and who haven’t objected to Obama’s opting out of the presidential funding system face an awkward fact: Either we are hypocrites, or we were wrong to support such limitations in the first place.
He settles on hypocrite. But then is all, “Hey, maybe, restrictions on political financing…aren’t good?” Which, yes, welcome to being a Republican with John McCain as your candidate. There’s nothing wrong with Obama buying the road block — just pretending like we got here because of his virtuous campaign. Campbell Brown, of the network who has denied the Obama Variety Hour, would like to remind you just why Obama denied public financing:
So Obama could form his own 527 machine! But how could anyone have known he was being insincere about his intentions what with this spellbinding beacon of sincerity:
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