The Obamedia: Don’t sweat it, it’s only a few million

In an article about the Obama money machine and its fraudulent donations, the WaPo has this to say about Obama breaking his pledge to pursue public financing:

One immediate result of Obama’s fundraising showing this fall is that it may render obsolete the current system of public financing for presidential campaigns. Because McCain opted into the system, he was limited to spending the $84.1 million provided to his campaign by the Treasury once he claimed the GOP nomination. Obama, who chose to remain outside the system after initially suggesting that he would participate in it, is expected to raise and spend at least three times that amount in the general election campaign.

Here’s his initial suggestion, which looks a hell of a lot like a promise to me:

OBAMA: Yes. I have been a long-time advocate for public financing of campaigns combined with free television and radio time as a way to reduce the influence of moneyed special interests. I introduced public financing legislation in the Illinois State Senate, and am the only 2008 candidate to have sponsored Senator Russ Feingold’s (D-WI) bill to reform the presidential public financing system. In February 2007, I proposed a novel way to preserve the strength of the public financing system in the 2008 election. 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. My proposal followed announcements by some presidential candidates that they would forgo public financing so they could raise unlimited funds in the general election. The Federal Election Commission ruled the proposal legal, and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) has already pledged to accept this fundraising pledge. If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election.

There is also this diminishment of the fraud, belittling it by saying it “only” amounts to one percent of the total.

While the potentially fraudulent or excessive contributions represent about 1 percent of Obama’s staggering haul, the security challenge is one of several major campaign-finance-related questions raised by the Democrat’s fundraising juggernaut.

I remind you that the total has been averaging $150 million in one month. That 1 percent is $1.5 million in fraudulent donations, per month, for what, a year? Two years? That adds up to quite a lot of fraudulent donations paying for quite a lot of TV and radio time. Obama is buying this election, and the media is complicit with him.

But hey, don’t get mad. Get even. Go out and vote for McCain next Tuesday. If you won’t do it for yourself, then do it for me. I don’t want an Obama presidency. I like keeping the money I’m earning.