This is the kind of “new politics” you’re in for if Saint Obama wins the presidency come November.
Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign violated New York City Education Department regulations by making a video in a Bronx classroom starring high school kids inspired by the presidential candidate’s speeches. The video was attached to a mass e-mailing Friday that included a pitch for donations.
Filming in school buildings for political or promotional purposes is “a violation of the chancellor’s regulations,” said Margie Feinberg, a department spokeswoman, after viewing the video and e-mail.
I’m willing to give Obama the doubt and say that there was no intention on his campaign’s part to willfully violate the rules of the NYC School System. I’ll assume that anything that did happen was unintentional and not designed to willfully ignore anything that they already knew. This part of the story, for me, doesn’t demonstrate any attempt to be “above the law.”
That being said, this part certainly does.
Feinberg declined to say whether the chancellor’s office also would ask the Illinois Democrat’s campaign to take the video off its Web site. For now, the campaign said it would stay up.
Jen Psaki, an Obama spokeswoman, said the campaign was unaware of the regulations.
Okay, but now that you’re aware of the regulations, defying them by saying the video would in fact stay up strikes me as grossly hypocritical.
For months and months we’ve heard about how the Obama campaign is going to do things differently. So far, to their credit, they have.
They said they wouldn’t take money from PAC’s, and they haven’t, instead choosing to take millions and millions from individuals that are in various ways connected to different PACS. In some cases, large corporate donors rally their friends to make large donations to the campaign (a practice known as “bundling”)
They said they won’t run a negative campaign and yet time and time and time again, they’ve attacked Hillary Clinton’s experience, credibility, truthfulness, and judgment both through the official campaign channels and through “rogue staffers” that were supposedly chastised later on for their actions.
Now, we see the Obama campaign violating the rules of the NYC School System (willingly or unwillingly; it’s really not the point) and then, after being informed of the fact, refusing to remedy the situation.
This is the kind of person all the liberals who think George W. Bush is a controlling psychopath who acts above the law want to vote into the office.
My question is, what’s the damn difference?
The Obama campaign should take the video down immediately now that they know it’s a violation.
End of story.
But they won’t.
And no one will call them out on it.