Gee … it seems like months and months ago that this humble blog first blew the whistle on Barack Obama for breaking his campaign pledge to work within the limits of the public campaign-financing system during his presidential run.

Oh, wait. It was months and months ago. Back in June, actually. Our own Holly was really on top of things. And CNN’s Campbell Brown is just catching up.

Last night on her “No Bias, No Bull” show, Brown had this to say:

Without question, Obama has set the bar at new height with a truly staggering sum of cash. And that is why as we approach this November, it is worth reminding ourselves what Barack Obama said last November.

One year ago, he made a promise. He pledged to accept public financing and to work with the Republican nominee to ensure that they both operated within those limits.

Then it became clear to Sen. Obama and his campaign that he was going to be able to raise on his own far more cash than he would get with public financing. So Obama went back on his word.

He broke his promise and he explained it by arguing that the system is broken and that Republicans know how to work the system to their advantage. He argued he would need all that cash to fight the ruthless attacks of 527s, those independent groups like the Swift Boat Veterans. It’s funny though, those attacks never really materialized.

The Washington Post pointed out recently that the bad economy has meant a cash shortage among the 527s and that this election year they have been far less influential.

The courageous among Obama’s own supporters concede this decision was really made for one reason, simply because it was to Obama’s financial advantage.

(Click here for the video — Thanks to CNN’s rocket scientists for making the darned thing so hard to embed in Wordpress, by the way…)

I was most surprised by former U.S. Senator Bob Kerry’s frank admission in yesterday’s New York Post that Obama, a fellow Democrat, deserves to wear a scarlet “H”:

A hypocrite is a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue – who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings. And that, it seems to me, is what we’re doing now.

Yessir — Senator Obama is counting his money, and spending it. On infomercials that might delay the World Series for an extra half-hour tonight. (That’s bound to be popular…)  Meanwhile, the rest of us can get busy figuring out how much our federal income taxes are going to go up, despite the candidate’s promise that they won’t.

Confused yet? Me too. But in just six more days, we’ll all be pleasantly reassured by someone that everything will be okay. It happens every four years, right?