After railing against super PACs, Obama embraces secretive elements of unlimited money system

WASHINGTON (AP) -- For years President Barack Obama railed against the surge of unlimited spending flowing into American political campaigns, arguing that average voters were being shut out of a secretive system that lets special interests bankroll elections.

Now as Obama enthusiastically raises money for Democratic super PACs, he's embracing some of the same secretive elements of that system, drawing charges of hypocrisy from good-governance advocates who say the public deserves to know what Obama's saying and to whom he's saying it when donors pay for a few minutes with the president.

After initially shunning super PACs, Obama in 2012 allowed his top officials to help raise money for the super PAC working to re-elect him, but his campaign promised to still "lead the way" on campaign transparency and reform. Obama took another major step toward embracing super PACs this year by agreeing to appear personally at fundraisers for Democratic super PACs. He argued that Democrats can't afford to play by different rules than Republican groups whose donors were flooding the super PAC zone.
As a super PAC, House Majority PAC must eventually disclose its donors to the Federal Elections Commission on a periodic basis, although voters will never know which of those donors attended fundraisers with the president.

"I don't have a problem with super PACs. What people have an issue with is hypocrisy," Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus said in an interview. Now that Obama has discovered he needs unlimited funding from super PACs, "he rejects transparency, he locks the press out and he goes and raises the money anyway."

Is Obama a hypocrite or just a Liar? Or Perhaps, both?

Ask Karl Rowe.......

The facts would indicate both.