Obama and Public Financing

[From 6/22/08, in response to criticism of Barack Obama for opting out of public financing for his presidential campaign.]

To the editor:

Let me get this straight: When politicians want to spend taxpayer’s money on things like health care or poverty, Republicans think that’s awful. Creeping socialism, they like to call it. But when Barack Obama decides not to spend millions of dollars of taxpayer money because he has enough from private donations . . . they think that’s awful too.

Oookay.