http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=626610&category=OPINION&newsdate=10/2/2007As a synopsis of how much money has polluted the American political system go, John Edwards' announcement last week that he's decided to accept public campaign financing after all is priceless.
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His rejoinder is that "if you believe in public financing, you ought to be willing to take a stand for public financing." But it gets muffled amid all the obsession about money and tactics, at the expense of ideas and principle.
Mr. Edwards actually takes a bit of the punch out of his announcement with his assurances, even insistence, that he'll have all the money he needs. His goal is to spend about $40 million during the primaries.
Now, Mr. Edwards did say as recently as February that he wouldn't accept public funds, on the grounds that he needed to be able to raise money without any restrictions to be competitive against the likes of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama. His welcome advocacy for public campaign funding, and at a time when most leading presidential candidates of both parties have abandoned it, does represent a sharp change in campaign tactics.
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