I’m Not Feeling You Bitching About Public Financing
On the other hand, stop bitching about my man opting out of the public financing system, it’s awesome.
This won’t be an issue for very long, but it’s important. Is opting out of public financing advantagious to Obama? Yes. Is it reform? Also, yes. The two aren’t mutually exclusive. In fact, when they go hand in hand, it’s pretty much all signs point to awesome.
Outspending your opponent because you have the support of corporations, PACs, Lobbyists, etc. is wack. Outspending your opponent because millions of people like me are sending you their beer money is fucking awesome
Obama’s average donation is $88.00. Sure he has big donors, but the average is the average. He will win because people, millions of individual people, love him. A lot. Because he’s awesome.
That’s Awesome.
If Al Gore is my politics dad and Barrack Obama is my politics boyfriend, then McCain is my politics crotchety uncle who says he’s going to take us out for ice cream but instead winds up conning the ice cream from the staff at his old folks home and eating it himself.
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