Obama Not Taking Public Funds for Election
This morning I got a tweet from Barack Obama saying:
Made an important decision today and wanted to share it with you. Visit http://my.barackobama.com/mydecision
while I think it's very much worth listening to, the essential point is that his campaign this Fall will not take any public funds. This means no more "Paid for by friends of Barack Obama", and all that crud that other elections have used to skirt the issue of campaign finance reform. They have someone else pay for it. Still... it's the special interest groups that are funding the vast majority of these (expensive) commercials.
With this, it's going to be an election where the people fund the candidate. While I might talk about the other nominees, I'm not going to. The point is not what they do, it's what I do, and by extension, what the person does that I cast my one, important vote for.
We need leadership, not just another President. Good for Obama!