You stated the lawsuit was moot. I said it wasn't yet clear. The FEC has not ruled on McCain's behavior. It is also one of the reasons McCain is unable to back out of public financing for the primaries, which is what he wants to do. He cannot use public funds as collateral. There has not been a ruling by the FEC as to whether or not he actually did that.
In any case...
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Obama said at an earlier time:
"If I am the Democratic nominee, I will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."
Now today he says he will not use public funds in the general....as the first line in my OP says:Barack Obama announced today that he will not accept roughly $85 million in public funds for the general election, breaking his earlier pledge to do so if his Republican rival John McCain opted in to the system.
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Yeah, McCain is kind of spending private funds.