[PBzeer]

While both candidates have various and sundry flip-flops, in the name of political posturing and pandering, getting back to the subject that was raised about Obama's choice to opt out of the public financing, what I find troubling about it, isn't that he flip-flopped, but that he did so on a principle, not an issue.

For over a year now, we have heard Obama say he is the candidate of change from the old ways of politics. Yet, when the time comes to stand by his oft repeated pledge to remain within the public financing system, we see the "change" is just the same ol', same ol'

Has anything changed between the time he made his pledge, and the time he threw it under the bus (to join the rest of the debris he said he wouldn't throw under there?). As a matter of fact, one thing, and one thing only has changed, the amount of money he has available.

His "reasons" existed at the time he made his pledge. They did not suddenly appear. But, given the choice between political expediency and standing by his word, he chose politics as usual. In and of itself, it would be no big deal, but, if one chooses to present themselves as being above such political expediency, the choice then becomes one not of simply pandering, but of gross hypocrisy.