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It’s fairly well documented that Obama flip-flopped on using public funding. He had agreed to accept public financing if McCain would but at the last moment he reneged after he had discovered through the primary process that his campaign benefited from his rock-star status.

Here is what Obama answered on a questionnaire promising to accept public financing as presented by Andrew Romano of Newsweek:

Asked last September on a questionnaire from the Midwest Democracy Network whether he would “participate in the presidential public financing system” if his “major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign,” Obama checked the box marked “yes,” then outlined his vision for the 2008 contest. “In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election,” he wrote. “My plan requires both major party candidates to agree on a fundraising truce, return excess money from donors, and stay within the public financing system for the general election… If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.”

What was his reasoning for failing to honor his word? Jack Tapper covered this over at Political Punch:

Obama’s reasoning on his blog:
In a web video to supporters — “the people who built this movement from the bottom up” — Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, announced this morning that he will not enter into the public financing system, despite a previous pledge to do so.

“We’ve made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election,” Obama says in the video, blaming it on the need to combat Republicans, saying “we face opponents who’ve become masters at gaming this broken system. John McCain’s campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs. And we’ve already seen that he’s not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations.”

Today the Drudge Report has provided links to three different articles that basically shoot holes through Senator Obama’s argument. The fact is that Obama has relied heavily on big donors (more so than Hillary Clinton and John McCain) and that Obama has been building his big money campaign machine for quite some time that include celebrities wooing foreign donations from across the Atlantic.

So ask yourself the following question: Who’s “gaming this broken system”? Obama, despite all of his talking about being a new type of politician and that he represents “Change that we can believe in”, is actually part of the old money making machine that relies on big business and foreign money to finance his campaign.

Here are links to the three articles that Drudge had posted. Please read them for yourselves and make up your own mind.

IHT: Big donors are the key to Obama’s record haul
CNN: Hollywood megastar to host fundraiser for Obama
Chicago Sun-Times: Obama taps celebs to woo high end donors.