What constitute public?
Recently McCain is trying to outmaneuver Obama to pledge to use public funding in his Presidential campaign. The tactical reason is obvious - McCain failed to attract the good will of the public to actively support his Presidential bid and he is willing to use the coercion force of the government to substitute real support with forced one. The only problem with this his notion of entitlement to use other peoples hard earn money to support his ambitions, is that receiving these funds contain set of restrictions on total spending (including money that was donated to the campaign) . Since those restrictions are a major disadvantage when your rival doesn’t need to abide to the same set of restrictions, mainly because he didn’t need to use guns to earn support, McCain is trying to make the pledge to used taxpayer money a virtue.
This is somewhat ironic that the “conservative” candidate is advocating for the use of government’s entitlement. But irony aside, Obama’s answer should be very clear - He is using public funding - more than a million people donating their hard earned money is no less public, he just not using robbed money.
Are million people considered public?
Tags: 2008 Elections, McCain, Obama, Public Funding, The Free MarketRelated posts
Rogel @ February 27, 2008