The whole tone of this e-blast to potential contributers is one of dreadful, overweening pride and arrogance:
Dear Jim —
On Monday, everyone will be watching our fundraising totals to see if we can compete with the McCain campaign.
This month is the first test of our grassroots fundraising strategy since we declared our independence from the broken campaign finance system.
You can help build our organization and show that a movement of ordinary people giving only what they can afford is changing the way presidential campaigns are funded.
Now is the perfect time to step up and own a piece of this campaign. And if you make your first donation right now, you’ll receive a special gift.
Make a donation of $15 or more by midnight on Monday, June 30th, and show off your support with an Obama logo car magnet:
etc.
Note the “broken campaign finance system” — the trumped-up talking point that justifies his not honoring his pledge of only months ago. When did it break? Since then? No? Then at what point in that last few months did O. and his people decide it was broken?
Note the ridiculous, mendacious “to see if we can compete with the McCain campaign,” after he broke his pledge only when it became clear he was swamping McCain with money.
Blithe Spirit 
Obama is beginning to make my teeth ache.
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A complete travesty, but so is everything else that has to do with Obama’s campaign. Obama’s goal is to win. It matters not to the drive-by media what Obama does or says, for Obama, unlike John McCain, is heralded for his progressive insight. Obama has done it again in convincing many that he is the one who will be using public financing in his campaign, while McCain is the odd man out. This is a complete reversal of what is means to accept public financing.
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Here’s how I’d look at the “arrogance” of that solicitation for Obama — as exactly the same as that from McCain. Hey, this is politics and they BOTH want & intend to win at ALL COSTS. What’s so unusual about that…? Not espeically moral and admirable, but hardly unusual of either party…!
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