Party Of Hypocrites/Men Of Honor

"ON the question of public funding of presidential campaigns, we Democrats who strongly support Sen. Barack Obama's candidacy and who previously supported limits on campaign spending and who haven't objected to Obama's opting out of the presidential funding system face an awkward fact: Either we are hypocrites, or we were wrong to support such limitations in the first place.

The next time we speak of the virtue of level playing fields or state our strong belief that democracy can't survive in the modern age unless big money is taken out of campaigns, we'll be counting on our audience's forgetting our silence this year, when the free market was flowing in our direction.

A hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue - who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. And that, it seems to me, is what we're doing now."

-- Bob Kerry, former U.S. Senator, and what has to be the country's last honest Democratic politician, being totally ignored in the New York Post.

There's something about Vietnam veterans, as opposed to Boomers who didn't serve, that keeps bringing them back to the subject of honor. It's really touching.

11/3/08 UPDATE: Even this bastard went back on his word. Fucking disgraceful.