Presidential candidate Obama, on December 22, 2007, railed against 527s and said that someone can't be against them one day and for them the next:
Now, after a year of denouncing the Supreme Court's Citizen United decision, and faced with fundraising lagging far behind the level necessary for the Obama campaign to reach its goal of amassing a $billion campaign fund, Obama committed the mother of all flip flops and embraced super PACs.
President Obama's denigration of the Court's Citizen United decision reached a rhetorical peak at an October 10, 2010,rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, when Obama called outside spending groups like super PACs a "threat to our democracy." Now, after the big flip flop, Obama will have administration officials attend fundraising events for super PACs that support his reelection.
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