This story is something Obama supporters don’t want to hear. They want to justify what he does the way they wouldn’t accept an opponent justifying such actions. It’s not a terrible scandal, but it is indication that the candidate for change has done something politicianist in order to capitalize on an opportunity. Sure, it’s not illegal, but Obama did break one simple promise. Undoubtedly, this is just one of many if he is elected, as his economic policies are unfeasible*.
Campbell Brown reports on this in what I see as evidence that CNN is a little more two-sided than other major networks, and less liberally biased than some would claim.
You can see the transcript on CNN.com
Editor’s note: Campbell Brown anchors CNN’s “Campbell Brown: No Bias, No Bull” at 8 p.m. ET Mondays through Fridays. She delivered this commentary during the “Cutting through the Bull” segment of Tuesday night’s broadcast.
On this issue today, former Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, an Obama supporter, writes in The New York Post, “a hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue — who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. And that, it seems to me, is what we are doing now.”
For this last week, Sen. Obama will be rolling in dough. His commercials, his get-out-the-vote effort will, as the pundits have said, dwarf the McCain campaign’s final push. But in fairness, you have to admit, he is getting there in part on a broken promise.
* “The nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget has found that both Obama and McCain are proposing combinations of tax and spending policies that would increase the federal deficit. It found that in 2013, Obama’s proposals would produce a net deficit increase of $286 billion…”
– source: FactCheck.org
In the interest of balance, Factcheck.org goes on to say “McCain’s major policies would produce a net deficit increase of between $167 billion and $259 billion. In talking to CNN, CRFB President Maya MacGuineas estimated that McCain’s deficit increase would fall midway between the extremes of that range, at $211 billion.”
The moral? Campaign promises sound good, but they’re made to be broken. Obama may be elected on the image of hope, but the promises of great things to come will have helped.
