I’m embarrassed at myself. I didn’t notice this Victor David Hanson (via Ed Driscoll) pointed this out to me:
[Barack Obama]: It will be coming to a head in this election. We’re going to have as stark a contrast as we’ve seen in a very long time between the two candidates. 2008 was a significant election, obviously. But John McCain believed in climate change. John believed in campaign-finance reform. He believed in immigration reform. There were some areas where you saw some overlap.
What? John McCain actually did believe in “campaign-finance reform,” but candidate and President Barack Obama most certainly did not: He was the first presidential candidate in the general election to renounce public campaign financing in the history of the legislation so that he could go on to out-raise McCain three to one.
I… may have gotten a little too accustomed to the notion that (to paraphrase Stephen King) Barack Obama lies when it suits him. This normally shouldn’t have gotten past me.
Moe Lane
Dude. He’s not referring to government financing of campaigns… he’s nostalgic for McCain-Feingold. Specifically, the legal limitations on criticizing politicians running for office. He found the Citizens United decision hurtful, remember? That’s what he’s talking about.
Hanson went into more detail after the point that I stopped quoting him, jaed. 🙂
That does make more sense, Jaed.