The way I look at Obama's so-called promise to accept public financing is two-fold:

1. First, it was done early and both candidates were talking about accepting it... That was at a time when McCain had to borrow money from a band using public fiancing as security... Then he started raising lots of money... So did Obama... McCain tried to get out of his pledge, if you recall, also... He would have possibly been able to pull it off but the Federal Election Commission didn't have the sufficent numbers for a quarum and therefore was not able to release McCain... But...

2. Secondly, and this takes us back to the run up to the invasion of Iraq... There were several weeks prior to Bush pulling the trigger where information was coming to the forefront questioning the assertions that had been laid out as a justification for the invasion... There were Scott Ritter, and Hans Blix and Joe Wilson's reports that Iraq wasn't really doing all the bad things that the Bush people had laid out... But Bush has allready huffed, puffed 'n bluffed so much that I guess he felt he couldn't turn back... I other words, Bush was inflexible to new information on the ground... And look where that got US??? So my thinking is that Obama showed in ***changing his mind*** a quality that had Goerge Bush possessed then might ahve avoided the worst foriegn policy decision since Vietnam... I want a president who is less concerned about his ego and more concerned about creating policies that work... Flexibility, in these difficult time, ain't a sin... It is a strenght...

B~