This letter is associated with the following article:
Letters
Thursday, June 19, 2008 12:00 AM

McCain counsel disputes Obama camp's account

An Obama spokesman says comments by a lawyer for McCain's campaign showed that McCain wasn't interested in dealing on public financing, but the lawyer says that's not true.
Alex Koppelman

Read other letters about this article

  • Thursday, June 19, 2008 08:58 AM

    Obama is doing it...

    ...because he can. When everybody and their brother/sister/cousin-in-law throws $25 or $50 toward a candidacy, it turns the old ideas of financing on their heads.

    This appears to demonstrate that Obama is less a moon-eyed idealist than a real-world pragmatist. I find that comforting, to be honest.

    —Jay Bee Read Jay Bee's other letters

    Flag
Read other letters about this article

Most Active Letters Threads

359

A key British official reminds us of the forgotten anthrax attack

A vast array of establishment and expert sources do not believe this episode was really resolved.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
323

Tough-guy John Bolton, hiding under his bed

As usual, right-wing pseudo-warriors are drowning in extreme cowardice.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
179

Is Obama's civil liberties record understandable?

Was it unreasonable to expect him to adhere to his commitments regarding the Constitution?
Glenn Greenwald Read article
154

Phil Carter's resignation from key detainee policy post

Many of the "War on Terror" policies he spent years condemning were ones expressly embraced by Obama.
Glenn Greenwald Read article
99

Palin, Prejean: Beastly treatment for beauties

The governor turned author must fight what the pageant queen learned: Politics and hotness make strange bedfellows
By Gene Lyons Read article

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon