For a politician who claims to be a different kind of politician, Barack Obama is proving to be, each day, just another politician…and, maybe even worse. He likes to play with words, manipulate them and, by doing so, tell people what they apparently want to hear. But then comes the backpedaling and, lo and behold, it turns out he isn’t saying anything different from any other politician.

Take money.

Obama will, apparently. It appears increasingly likely he will turn his back on public financing of his expected presidential campaign against John McCain.

It was only a year ago when Obama promised to accept public financing for the November elections. But that was before he raised tons of cash. Now he is likely to be, as the New York Times reports, “the first presidential candidate to bypass public financing for the general election since the system began in 1976.”

Okay, I guess that does make him a different politician!

And, remember how Obama made a big deal of the fact that he would meet with those who the U.S. has shunned without conditions in an effort bring about his much advertised “change?”

Turns out there are plenty of ifs, ands, and buts to this: He now says that, of course, his administration would first meet with the likes of Iran’s president before he, personally, would enter the picture. In other words, his underlings will set pre-conditions before the boss comes to the table. And there is more: He now also says that he never meant there would be no “preparations” for such high level talks. By “preparations” does he mean—-pre-conditions?

More of the same

Of course he does. He realizes that now that he is all but the Democratic party’s presidential nominee, he has to go head to head with John McCain and not come across like an international moron. That means he has to take a practical approach, a political approach and an approach that sounds a lot like the one advocated by Hillary Clinton!