Via Patterico's Pontifications, we learn that Obama tries a little lawyerly parsing to explain why he isn't going to go for public financing of his campaign.
Mr. Obama's campaign now claims that his earlier promise was not to stay within the public financing system if his opponent agreed to do the same, as Mr. McCain has done, but merely to pursue such an agreement.
Well, no, Mr. Obama. That's not what you agreed to if your words mean anything:
If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?
OBAMA: Yes.
But hey, why would Obama break the tradition of lying, a tradition so close to Democrat politics?
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