that the president is doing this at all because it represents 180-degree shift, a total reversal in his prior position on super pac money. listen to what he said back in october of 2010. thanks to a gigantic loophole, these special interests can spend unlimited amounts without even disclosing where the money is coming from. we don t know where it s coming from. is it from the oil industry? we don t know if it s from banks. we don t know if it s insurance companies. could be coming overseas. we don t know. they won t tell you. they don t want you to know. they don t want you to know. they won t stand behind what they do. this isn t just a threat to democrats. this is a threat to our democracy. president obama in october 2010. here he is a few weeks earlier identifying some of the groups that he considered culprits in talking about how democrats might oppose their influence without becoming just like them. every one of these groups is run by republican operatives. every s
these special interests can spend unlimited amounts without even disclosing where the money s coming from. we don t know where it is coming from. we don t know if it is from the oil industry, from banks, insurance companies joshua komisarjevskying from overseas. we don t know. they won t tell you. they don t want you to know. they don t want you to know. they won t stand behind what they do. this isn t just a threat to democrats but our democracy. here he is a few weeks earlier identifying some groups he considered culprit and talking about how democrats may oppose their influence without becoming like them. every one of these groups is run by a republican operatives every one of them. even though they are posing as nonprofit groups with names like americans for prosperity, committee for truth in politics or americans for apple pie. i made that last one up, but [ laughter ] but this is why look, this is why we have to work even harder in this election. we will. we w