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I gotta admit, I'm really surprised that the AP is running an analysis like this, in which they tell just what the mistakes are that Obama is making as a candidate:

WASHINGTON - Barack Obama chose winning over his word.

The Democrat once made a conditional agreement to accept taxpayer money from the public financing system, and accompanying spending limits, if his Republican opponent did, too.

No more.

The chance to financially swamp John McCain — and maneuver for an enormous general election advantage — proved too great an allure.

Obama, a record-shattering fundraiser, reversed course Thursday and decided to forgo some $85 million so he could raise unlimited amounts of money and spend as much as he wants.

"It's not an easy decision, and especially because I support a robust system of public financing of elections," Obama said in announcing that despite his previous commitment, he would rely only on private donations because "the public financing of presidential elections as it exists today is broken."

And with that, the first-term Illinois senator tarnished his carefully honed image as a different kind of politician — one who means what he says and says what he means — while undercutting his call for "a new kind of politics."

This could signal that even the AP, wretched news agency that they are, have become disillusioned with the shady politician. That aside, Obama may be violating laws on spending if he's going to seek unlimited funds, and who knows where from, for campaigning.

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Update: and in related news, if you want to know what Jeremiah Wright, Obama's frightful pastor, is up to, find out here (via Michelle Malkin). They should not be inviting him to any speeches; he should have his degree revoked.

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