How Can We Trust Obama?

From Foster's Daily Democrat
Editorial

Barack Obama's position on the issues is a work in progress. When he was seeking the Democratic nomination for president he was saying one thing. Now that he has a lock on it, he's doing some 180 degree turns.

Change is the theme of Obama -- change to suit what is politically convenient. ...

Obama supports public financing for political campaigns. No, that was before he heard the promise of contributions reaching $300 million. Now we're seeing and hearing a new Obama. ...

Last fall, Common Cause circulated a questionnaire among candidates asking, "If you are nominated for President in 2008 and your major opponents agree to forgo private funding in the general election campaign, will you participate in the presidential public financing system?" Obama's response was an unqualified "yes." ...

Once Barack Obama no longer needed the cover of a public funding limit -- about $84 million -- he set it aside. Once he learned there a limitless amount of money available to him, he rejected the limits he first embraced. Once he knew it was there, and concluded he could raise more of it than John McCain, he acknowledged he was going after it.

Obama's principled support of public financing has fallen victim to another political principle -- do what you have to do to get elected. ...

Barack Obama was supposed to be something different -- something new. Obama was supposed to be the agent of change. It is obvious Barack Obama is the agent of paper money and checks, as well as change.

Obama has broken one promise. It leads to wondering how many more pledges he will break in his quest for the power of the presidency.

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