Letter to the editor:

Obama had to opt out of public financing

Susan Wright, Las Vegas

Wed, Jul 2, 2008 (2:03 a.m.)

Clarence Lanzrath asserted in his Friday letter that Sen. Barack Obama is hypocritical for opting out of public financing for his presidential campaign. But Obama is no more a hypocrite than Sen. John McCain. McCain agreed to take federal funding at a low point during the primary campaign to secure a $4 million loan and then opted out as he began to win more contests and overspent the $54 million federal funding limit.

An inequity that Obama faces is that federal funding would have to cover an extra week because the $84 million kicks in right after each party’s convention — eight weeks for McCain, nine weeks for Obama until Election Day.

Surely it’s obvious that McCain would have more than a million more per week, and in fact could spend millions more during the week after the Democratic National Convention, when Obama would be limited to federal funding and McCain would not.

Discussion: 4 comments so far…

By jfnance32

7/2/08 at noon

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"Obama had to opt out of public financing"....I guess Obama did not have the judgement to forsee the need not to promise to use only public financing.

He does not have experience and now...Oh My!!!!....he has proven that he does not have the judgement either.
By shestheone

7/2/08 at 6:42 p.m.

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Have you ever noticed how Obama spends most of his
time making excuses for what he did or didn't say, for what he did or didn't do, for
associating with someone of questionable background, for losing his train of thought and
so on? It's wrong for him to keep getting a free pass for his blunders and flipflops...
It's wrong that the bar kept being lowered for
him while Hillary Clinton's glass ceiling was
continually raised. Not that she wasn't up to the challenge - she was amazing... but the DNC was in cahoots with Obama from the beginning. Needless to say Obama does not have the experience nor competence to be President and he'll never receive my vote. P.U.M.A!
By JohnF

7/2/08 at 8:25 p.m.

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shestheone,

Please get over your anger and consider a vote for Obama. Think what will happen to womens' rights if John McCain gets to name the next two Supreme Court justices. Senator Clinton has come to the conclusion that electing Obama is in the country's best interest. Hopefully her supporters will come to the same conclusion.

Ask yourself if electing McCain honors the principles that Senator Clinton holds dear. Hillary will still be a viable candidate eight years from now.
By JayM

7/2/08 at 9:22 p.m.

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There have been Republican presidents from 01/81 through the present except for the Clinton administration. These Republican presidents have done nothing concrete to ban abortions.

There is little indication regarding what kind of justice picks a President will make; and even the President doesn’t know how the justice will vote, once on the bench. What is clear is that John McCain has said he will not choose justices based on overruling Roe v. Wade. Congress can block and has blocked very conservative picks that they fear will overturn the Roe v. Wade ruling.

In the unlikely event that Roe v. Wade is overturned, then abortion rights will be at the state level. Anybody who wants an abortion will be able to get one in various states and get help to do so.

The Obama supporters are using Roe v. Wade as a scare tactic.

I feel very comfortable choosing a president based on several factors and issues versus one single issue.