{"id":195708,"date":"2008-06-19T23:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/obama-to-will-not-take-public-financing\/"},"modified":"2008-06-19T23:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-20T04:21:00","slug":"obama-to-will-not-take-public-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/19\/obama-to-will-not-take-public-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama to Will Not Take Public Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I approve <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSWAT00969520080619\">his campaign&#8217;s decision to eschew public financing and the associated spending limits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He will get a lot more money from his donors for the general.<\/p>\n<p>The only thing that I argue about is that they missed an opportunity to attack McCain.  They could have given the reason for this as, &#8220;<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">John McCain is in felony violation of the campaign finance law that <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">he wrote<\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">, so it&#8217;s not reasonable to expect good faith in his negotiations.<\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I approve his campaign&#8217;s decision to eschew public financing and the associated spending limits. He will get a lot more money from his donors for the general. The only thing that I argue about is that they missed an opportunity to attack McCain. They could have given the reason for this as, &#8220;John McCain is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-presidential-campaign"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}