Comments on: Will Obama keep his pledge to use federal funds in a presidential election?

By: J S

J S — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:47:55 +0000

Not going to happen because people never keep the promises they make during campaigns.

By: rebecca2008

rebecca2008 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:17:38 +0000

no he’s already said that he would not keep his pledge.
And McCain said that he would and that Obama didn’t keep his word.

By: sweetmarie

sweetmarie — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 08:35:13 +0000

Yet another of his empty promises. He knows well enough that other candidates wouldn’t agree, so he says this knowing he won’t be called on it. Just more of his grandstanding.

By: LadyB!™

LadyB!™ — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:48:53 +0000

It’s funny and interesting for a conservative to advocate the use of public financing and a democrat is possibly advocating the use of funds they earned by their own merits. ha ha ha ha ….

By: Knowledge

Knowledge — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 23:26:14 +0000

lmao….whoa! it went from a discussion to a PLEDGE…I love the semantics in this political contest. Everybody is trying EVERYTHING they can to make the other look bad. This has been amazing.

By: chefbear324

chefbear324 — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:31:49 +0000

If he can come to an agreement with McCain who also pledged to use Federal funds.
The 527′s will be in play.

By: evil independent

evil independent — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:44:22 +0000

I doubt it. He will re neg on his pledge.

By: Nancy A

Nancy A — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 06:12:33 +0000

I think he and McCain will have to work out a common ground on this. Ultimately they are both honest and honorable men.

Let’s compare the record:

From the Library of Congress:

Hillary Clinton in her one full term(6 yrs.) and another year campaigning, has authored and passed only 20 pieces of legislation in her term of six years into law. They range from naming a courthouse after Thurgood Marshall to naming a Post Office after Jonn A. O’Shea.

Obama in his first 8 Months sponsored over 820 Bills. Introduced 233 Bills on Healthcare Reform, 125 Bills on Poverty and Public Assistance, 112 Bills on Crime Fighting, 97 Economic Bills, 60 Human Rights and Anti-Discrimination Bills, 21 Ethics Reform Bills, 6 Veterans Affairs Bills and many others. In his First Year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 Bills and co-spomsored another 427. These Include: 1) the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 that became Law, 2) the Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-prliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act that became Law, 3) the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act that passed the Senate, 4) the 2007 Government Ethics Bill that became Law, just to name a few. In all, since he entered the Senate, Senator Obama has written 890 Bills and co-sponsored another 1096.

Why is this not being discussed heavily on the blogs? Obama supporters should be copying and pasting this all over the net and inundating all the Hillary Blogs with this. When people take a hard look… she is not a hard worker. She represents more grid lock and laziness.
This man WILL get things done. His record PROVES IT.

Pass this on to as many folks as you can this weekend. Everyone on your address books, all blogs. Get the truth out and help make things right!

By: Somebody else

Somebody else — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:01:50 +0000

He did not make a pledge to use federal funds. He made a pledge to use federal funds if he became the Democratic nominee AND if the Republican nominee agreed to do the same thing. A lot of people don’t know that he made that caveat. Since it’s looking like John McCain is backing out of his agreement to use matching funds, thereby violating his own campaign finance law, I doubt Obama will agree to it.

By: People A

People A — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:40:22 +0000

Good . He is rich enough. Throw some of those millions spent on campaign ads my way or to Appalacian kids for that matter.