January 23, 2007 04:13 PM UTC

Is Hillary Clinton For Sale?

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• by: (((JADodd)))

It appears that Hillary Clinton intends to try to buy the Democratic nomination. To do this, it looks like she is for sale to the highest bidders. Along the way, she is destroying the one meager attempt we have made to get big money out of presidential elections.

Clinton Bid Heralds Demise of Public Financing

By Dan Balz and Matthew Mosk
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; Page A01

The public financing system designed to clean up presidential campaigns in the wake of the Watergate scandal may have died on Saturday when Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) announced her bid for the White House.

Little noticed amid the announcement rollout was a page on her Web site in which she asked potential contributors to give her campaign checks of up to $4,200. That figure signaled not only that she plans to forgo public funds for primary season but also that, if she becomes the nominee, she will not take public money for the general election.

By opting out of the system, Clinton will be able to spend as much money as she can raise, both for the primaries and for the general election, rather than being forced to abide by strict spending limits imposed by the Federal Election Commission on candidates who accept public financing.”

The rest of the article is here..

Who was the last presidential candidate to pursue this course? W! Is Clinton blinded by pure ambition or is she really a Blue Dog Democrat?