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In Nevada, Obama Loves 527s, Hated Them In Iowa

By Big Tent Democrat

Remember this?

Obama criticized Edwards for saying that he doesn't approve of 527s, while at the same time not disavowing a group, Alliance for a New America . . . "You've got these outside groups that are helping out candidates and it's a way of getting around the campaign finance laws. . . . [Y]ou can't say yesterday you don't believe in 'em, and today you have three quarters of a million dollars being spent for you. You can't just talk the talk. The easiest thing in the world is to talk about change during election time."

No kidding Senator Obama. You sure aren't walking the walk in Nevada: [More....]

The radio ad aired by one of Obama's labor allies re-injects ethnicity into the Democratic primary contest in sharp terms. . . . A spokesman for Obama, Bill Burton, did not condemn the ad or the independent spending specifically, but instead attacked Clinton. . . . "[Complaints] [c]oming from a campaign that is repeatedly launching absolutely false attacks against Sen. Obama, it takes some chutzpah. . .

Mr. Burton and the Obama campaign are redefining chutzpah before our very eyes. Let's face it - on the lobbyists phony issue and now on the 527s, Barack Obama is a complete and utter hypocrite. He believes none of this. It is all just phony political posturing. That is politics I know, but the refrain that Obama is going to reinvent it is as phony as a three dollar bill.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 17, 2008 (boomark / email).