Obama, the hypocite in chief

President Obama has conpletely flipped his position on another issue concerning the upcoming elections, namely fund raising by super PACs. Obama's new position is that he was against them before he was for them. It is only the latest cynical move by a candidate for whom cynicism and hypocracy are his mantra. Just look at this:

1) In 2008, candidate Obama repeatedly pledged that he would only use public financing for his campaign if he were nominated. The public funding system had been used in the prior presidential elections since being enacted to take the "evils" of money and influence buying out of the presidential campaign. Of course, once Obama got the nomination, he ignored the public financing system and jumped wholeheartedly into private fundraising. This allowed Obama to spend about twice what McCain spent since McCain used the public system and the spending limits it required. Since that election, we have been treated to time after time when big Obama contributors got special treatment from the president. Just think about the half billion dollars that was given to Solyndra, a failed solar panel manufacturer whose principal investor was a big bundler of campaign cash for Obama.
2) In 2010 and 2011, we heard Obama and the Democrats complaining bitterly about the Citizen's United decision of the Supreme Court which allowed contributions to PACs by corporations in much the same way that unions had been allowed to do. We also heard about how super PACs organized by folks like Karl Rove were a danger to democracy, even though Rove was simply replicating the strategy used by Obama and the Democrats themselves in 2006 and 2008. Obama criticized both corporate cash and super PACs as unacceptable attacks on democracy. In the meantime, Obama spent about half of his days raising cash for his own re-election campaign and for the DNC. Now comes the second big flip by Obama. As of last night, the Democrats and Obama are now out promoting contributions to the Democrats' super PACs for the 2012 election. According to the New York Times, Obama is sending cabinet secretaries and other high administration officials to fundraisers for these groups. While Obama himself will not appear in person at any such PAC fundraiser because of the bad "optics" of that situation, Obama makes clear that he wants his supporters to give to the Democrat super PAC. So much for dangers to democracy.

It seems that Obama has only one core belief: he wants to get re-elected and he does not care how.