If not for all of this, it just might be Sen. Barack Obama's (possible) hypocrisy that would consuming the campaign oxygen. There's his dance on public financing, and this: "A mere five months ago, in Iowa, Obama didn't like it when outside 'special interest' groups sided with his rivals, pumped their own money into the campaign, and ran independent ads against him," Dick Polman writes in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
"Fast forward to the Pennsylvania primary, present day . . . and the news that SEIU and an affiliated health-care local union are pouring upwards of $1 million into an independent pro-Obama effort that parallels the official Obama operation.
"Nothing illegal about that, then or now. The issue here is the difference between Obama's stance, then and now," Polman writes. "He's a politician who is trying to win, and he will flip where he once flopped if that's what it takes."