President Obama is always complaining about the corrosive effect of money in politics. I don't like it either. But what activity does President Obama do more than anything else (aside from golf)? Hey, that's right: he's always going to fundraisers. And that injects lots more money into politics, which I hear from the president will have quite a corrosive effect.
This seems somewhat at odds with what he says on the subject. In fact, didn't the president have an early opportunity to limit the corrosive effects of money in politics when he and John McCain agreed to use the public funding for the 2008 presidential campaign? Oh, but once then-candidate Obama found out that he could raise more money than John McCain, didn't he break his pledge and back out of using the public financing? And it seems like he's been doing an awful lot of fundraising since then, which will most certainly inject quite a bit of a corrosive effect into politics, won't it? And really, now that he's been re-elected, and he can't run for president again, what does he even need the money for? I mean, he says he doesn't like money in politics, so why is he always raising so much of it to go into politics?
Or is he only opposed to the corrosive effects of money in politics when it's not being donated to him and his party? Because that's kind of what it seems like, based upon his actions. And actions speak louder than words, do they not?
