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Obama's reversal

It's a shame he rejected public funding

Faced with a choice of principle versus pragmatism on campaign financing, Barack Obama chose pragmatism, the more lucrative option. That's disappointing. He pledged months ago to accept public campaign financing - and its spending limits - if his Republican opponent did too.

Now Obama is the presumptive Democratic nominee, and his Republican counterpart, John McCain, says he'll take public...

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