Updated:Words do matter Senator Obama
Senator Obama has often said that words matter when you are saying something. He has used it on occasion when speaking about Senator Clinton in his run for the Democrat party nomination. Maybe what Senator Obama fails to realize is that they also matter if he says them. Not just when others say them.
You don’t promise something then turn around and do something completely different. Senator Obama is quite good at this though. He has done it on several occasions. His most recent flip-flop has been his reversal on campaign finance.
At the beginning of his campaign he promised to use public financing as a way to limit political lobbyist influence. Just recently he has reversed this decision. Most likely because he is bringing in much more than public financing could bring in for him. Of course this also makes him beholden to those same lobbyists that he doesn’t want to be associated with.
Here it is in his own words.
Update:
For even more on words that matter, Ed Morrissey over at Hot Air has this to say:
it could help define Obama as either careless with his facts or dishonest altogether.
When speaking about a recent ad Senator Obama used to claim some accomplishments.
“Obama ad cites bill he did not vote on… While the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee authored provisions that ultimately made it into the law, he did not vote for its passage on Jan. 22, when he was busy campaigning in advance of the South Carolina primary.†(06/20/08) – Chicago Tribune