Another Liberal expresses disappointment in Obama's lack of principles.

The Sad Spectacle of Obama’s Super PAC

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It has been said there is no high ground in American politics since any politician who claims it is likely to be gunned down by those firing from the trenches. That’s how the Obama team justifies its decision to endorse a super PAC that can raise and spend unlimited sums for his campaign. 

Baloney. Good ends don’t justify corrupt means.

The sad truth is Obama has never really occupied the high ground on campaign finance. He refused public financing in 2008. Once president, he didn’t go to bat for a system of public financing that would have made it possible for candidates to raise enough money from small donors and matching public funds they wouldn’t need to rely on a few billionaires pumping unlimited sums into super PACS. He hasn’t even fought for public disclosure of super PAC donations.

And now he’s made a total mockery of the Court’s naïve belief that super PACs would remain separate from individual campaigns, by officially endorsing his own super PAC and allowing campaign manager Jim Messina and even cabinet officers to speak at his super PAC events. Obama will not appear at such events but he, Michelle Obama, and Vice President Joe Biden will encourage support of the Obama super PAC. . . . . . excerpts taken from Robert Reich's own blog, here.  

Editor's notes:   There are two kinds of liberals (at least).  One is a Big Government lib and the other is a revolutionary,  one who cares nothing for the Constitution,  and is willing to justifies the means used to accomplish supposed "righteous" ends. Reich is the former,  Obama is the latter.  In our drive to indict all Liberals as radical Marxists,  we conservatives have not allowed for the differences between the two liberal camps.  But it is real,  and the none radicals are beginning to speak up,  voicing their disappointment in Mr. Obama.  

Point of post:  to introduce the readership to the not-so-far-out Left and their disappointment in the valueless principles of Barack Obama.  Understand that big government liberals have been a part of the American political process from the very beginning of this nation's history.  In fact,  I am certainly that a number of Original document signers were of this lesser class of beings  (I jest).  

End notes: 

Robert Reich is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. He has written thirteen books, including The Work of Nations, Locked in the Cabinet, Supercapitalism, and his most recent book, Aftershock. His "Marketplace" commentaries can be found on publicradio.com and iTunes. He is also Common Cause's board chairman.