Obama's lame claim on McCain-GOP funding

Newsweek:

Obama announced he would become the first presidential candidate since 1972 to rely totally on private donations for his general election campaign, opting out of the system of public financing and spending limits that was put in place after the Watergate scandal.

One reason, he said, is that "John McCain's campaign and the Republican National Committee are fueled by contributions from Washington lobbyists and special interest PACs."

We find that to be a large exaggeration and a lame excuse. In fact, donations from PACs and lobbyists make up less than 1.7 percent of McCain's total receipts, and they account for only about 1.1 percent of the RNC's receipts.

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This is just another example of how deceitful Obama can be. The honest answer for the reason he is doing without is because he can and he thinks it will give him an advantage. He also needs to do it because even outspending Hillary Clinton three to one in the later primaries he was losing.