22nd
Only God can judge me
Barack Obama is going against his earlier pledge and opting out of the public financing system. If it works, he will not only win this election but open up the game for the democratic party in the future. He’s already potentially included a new demographic, young people, into the democratic camp and now he might bring in some new states to the “contested” category. If it succeeds, I predict it will be heralded as an ingenious strategy and he a genius, unintimidated by those trying to trap him into a broken system where the chips are stacked against him. On the flipside, if it fails, he will be called a hypocrit politician, buoyed by hubris. Like a lot of things in life, how he will be judged as a person depends on whether he is successful.
