{"id":197278,"date":"2008-02-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/mccain-calls-for-obama-honor-so-called-promise-on-public-financing\/"},"modified":"2008-02-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T05:00:00","slug":"mccain-calls-for-obama-honor-so-called-promise-on-public-financing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/19\/mccain-calls-for-obama-honor-so-called-promise-on-public-financing\/","title":{"rendered":"McCain Calls for Obama Honor So-Called Promise on Public Financing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, McCain and Obama agreed to go with public financing in the general if they were the nominees, and now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/02\/15\/us\/politics\/15cnd-campaign.html?ex=1360818000&amp;en=f6284c5962a8d60a&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss&amp;pagewanted=all\">McCain is demanding that Obama adhere to his so-called pledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Obama is in a no-win situation right now, and it may very well not be his fault.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the argument regarding the &#8220;pledge&#8221; is that he made some inquiries regarding going on public financing in the general seem to be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/14604.html#comment-381524\">statements that have some wiggle room<\/a>, but considering how far the press has their tongue up McCain&#8217;s asshole, it will be sold as a pledge.<\/p>\n<p>I think that a good plan of attack against this is to show how McCain attempted to <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2008\/02\/mccain_campaign_banked_on_taxp.php\">use public financing as an insurance policy for his campaign<\/a>, where it would only kick in if he lost to retire his debts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, McCain and Obama agreed to go with public financing in the general if they were the nominees, and now McCain is demanding that Obama adhere to his so-called pledge. Obama is in a no-win situation right now, and it may very well not be his fault. It appears that the argument regarding the &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-197278","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\/197278"}],"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=197278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}