Commentary From Chicago Tribune

HEAD: Obama's cash, lies piling up

David Plouffe, manager of Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign, keeps
sending me e-mails asking me to cough up money because the presumptive
Democratic nominee's fundraising is, supposedly, as pure as the driven snow.
Somehow, my name got on Obama's list of prospective suckers, and for months
I've read this song and dance about how he has freed himself from the
tentacles of special interests.

This is baloney.

Consider Plouffe's money pitch that followed Obama's recent decision not to
accept publicly funded campaign money, which means Obama can spend way more
than the $84.1 million campaign spending cap-which, by the way, is something
the senator promised never to do.

Dennis wrote: