Just a few days after a speech in which he argued for changing the tone in politics, President Obama is now revealed to be planning a campaign for re-election that will cost in excess of a billion dollars. In 2008, then candidate Obama spent three quarters of that amount in record spending for a presidential run. Indeed, obama was the first candidate in many years who did not accept public financing and the spending limits that come with it. So after years of hearing from Democrats how it is Republicans who get money from the rich so as to outspend the Democrats, we have yet another instance of a Democrat who will spend without limit in order to try to bury his opponents.
President Obama could easily accept the public funds for his re-election campaign and limit his election spending to the same amount as his GOP opponent. He would still be able to spend what he wants during the primary season, but this show of restraint might give some force to Obama's call for a new tone in politics. Instead we will see the president spend much of the next two years raising funds to fuel his race for the white house.
It really did not take very long for Obama to show how truly unserious he was in Arizona.
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