Obama Talks About The Ad That Scared Him Into Opting Out Of Public Funding
If this ad scared Obama we are in ‘BIG’ trouble.
Speaking to reporters yesterday in Jacksonville, Fla., Obama defended his decision a day earlier to opt out of the federal financing system for the general election after pledging to seek a deal with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to use public as opposed to private money.
At his news conference, Obama said he had opted out to preserve his ability to compete with independent conservative groups he expected to challenge him, although no such well-funded national organizations have materialized.
He asserted that his fundraising rules, which bar contributions from federal lobbyists and political action committees, represent meaningful campaign finance reform.
When a reporter pointed to the dearth of well-heeled, GOP-aligned
independent groups emerging, Obama responded by asserting that they could “pop up pretty quickly and have enormous influence,” adding: “And we’ve already seen them — and there was an ad run in South Dakota . . . where it took a speech that I had made, extolling faith, and made it seem as if I had said that America was a Muslim nation.”
He continued, “We’ve already seen attacks on my wife from, you know, the Tennessee Republican Party. I don’t think I’m off the wall here to see that, you know, there are a lot of outside groups that are potentially going to be going after us hard.”
Obama’s campaign has long utilized faith as a central theme. The candidate’s Christianity and his former membership in the controversial Trinity United Church of Christ have been much scrutinized.
His comment about the “Christian Right” echoed similar statements made by Merrill A. McPeak, Obama’s military adviser and national campaign co-chairman.
As WND reported, in a 2003 interview with The Oregonian newspaper, McPeak seemed to compare evangelical Christians to the terror groups Hamas and Hezbollah.
The Oregonian interviewer asked McPeak whether “there’s an element within Hamas, Hezbollah, that doesn’t want Israel to exist at all and always will be there?”
McPeak responded by comparing the two terror groups to “radical” Oregonians.
“There’s an element in Oregon, you know, that’s always going to be radical in some pernicious way, and likely to clothe it in religious garments, so it makes it harder to attack.
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