{"id":611,"date":"2008-06-19T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/?p=611"},"modified":"2008-06-19T11:15:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T16:15:53","slug":"obama-not-taking-public-funds-for-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/archives\/611","title":{"rendered":"Obama Not Taking Public Funds for Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/vote.jpg\" alt=\"vote.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"128\" height=\"126\" align=\"right\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This morning I got a tweet from Barack Obama saying:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Made an important decision today and wanted to share it with you. Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/mydecision\">http:\/\/my.barackobama.com\/mydecision<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>while I think it's very much worth listening to, the essential point is that his campaign this Fall will <strong>not<\/strong> 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 <em>else<\/em> pay for it. Still... it's the special interest groups that are funding the vast majority of these (expensive) commercials.<\/p>\n<p>With this, it's going to be an election where the <strong><em>people<\/em><\/strong> fund the candidate. While I might talk about the other nominees, I'm not going to. The point is not what <strong><em>they<\/em><\/strong> do, it's what <strong><em>I<\/em><\/strong> do, and by extension, what the person does that I cast my one, important vote for.<\/p>\n<p>We need <em>leadership<\/em>, not just another President. Good for Obama!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;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 &#8220;Paid for by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-everything-else"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbeaty.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}