Campbell Brown tells the truth

Robert Earl Keene sings a song called, "Little Things." From his vantage point of beleaguered spouse, he quips to his beloved that, "it's the little things that piss me off."

At the end of the day, those truly are the things that drive me from ambivalent spectators to impassioned activists. In most of life, the great big huge happenings don't come that often or catch us that much off guard. It's the little, day to day happenings that make people crazy.

Case in point. Here's a link to a video of Campbell Brown talking about Obama and his broken promise to accept public campaign funds. It's well known, well documented, and undeniable that Obama is hands down winning the cash war in this election cycle. He's broken all kinds of fund raising records. So what's the big deal?

Campbell does a great job of spelling out the issues. Check out the video. Obama claims he did it because the system is broken. Regardless, it's the system that honorable John McCain has stuck to, even when it's cost him.

So here's the real rub. It's not about campaign finance and what probably is a broken system. It's about integrity. Lewinsky-gate wasn't (primarily) about Slick Willy getting his in the Oval Office. It was about the reality that a man who would lie to his wife about something like this, would lie to the American people. It's not about sex or money, it's about integrity and honor.

I wonder what else a man who lied about something as important as funding a campaign would lie about? Is there a chance that he'd lie about his fiscal policy? I wonder if he would ever lie about any of his associations, about his plans for the war, about the depth of his liberalism?

He might not, but nothing has indicated he wouldn't.

The fact that he lied when it served him to do so indicates that he would do it again under the same circumstances. How much of Obama's ever shrinking lead in the polls is attributed to an absolute saturation of the airwaves with his propaganda? If he wins this election, you could easily make the point that he bought the election with questionable campaign donations. So with broken promises and untraceable donations, he is somehow fit to lead this nation to a better and more reputable place in the global community? I don't get it. It seems to me that the best thing dirty money can get you is a bad name.

See the Campbell Brown piece here... http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/28/campbell.brown.obama/index.html

P.S. Kudos to CNN for putting this out there. Perhaps the Clinton News Network is under reform! Keep tellin' it like it is Campbell!