-First up, a charming Oregon GOP candidate Mike Erickson may have paid for his ex-girlfriend's abortion ten years ago. Too bad Erickson positions himself as a virulent abortion foe.
I have to say that I am pretty happy that this is an repub abortion hypocrite story as opposed to the old standby the repub gay as a daisy hypocrite story, because I am certain that there is many a politician that has availed him/herself of the convenience of safe & legal termination and scandal-wise this demographic remains sorely under represented.
-Obama's decision to forgo public funding has generated lots of ink and hand wringing, because he did, like, promise over and over again to do the opposite. As much as I think it would have been a total utter mistake for him for to limit himself to the $85 million public financing cap, I do think he has done himself a disservice by not being straight with us as to why.
I think this points to just how conservatively Obama and his advisors feel they have to play this going in to November. After all, too much candor of the 'first time as an adult i am truly proud of my country' variety can only get you in trouble when your under the absurd spastic 24-hour news cycle general election microscope. At the end of the day this will all blow over long before November and I am reasonably certain that its enough of an inside the beltway issue that Joe Sixpack doesn't give a rat's ass anyway.
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