Citizens United Knocks Obama For Campaign Finance Hypocrisy

WASHINGTON -- A conservative group is poking President Barack Obama and the Democrats over their recent switch in tactics to embrace the outside campaign spending allowed by the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission Supreme Court ruling.

Citizens United was behind that landmark decision, which freed corporations and unions to spend unlimited sums of money on elections.

The group's new video shows then-candidate Barack Obama delivering a message to former Sen. John Edwards, then one of Obama's primary opponents, on the use of outside groups. Obama accuses Edwards of working around campaign finance laws, despite claiming to oppose such manipulation.

"We found out today that there's an outside group spending $750,000 ... and the individual who is running the group used to be John Edwards' campaign manager," Obama says. "You can't just talk the talk. The easiest thing in the world is to talk about change during the election time."

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Source: Huffington