Obama Admits Flip on Super PACs -- 10 Months Too Late

Having condemned the Citizens United decision and having bashed super PACs, President Barack Obama has flipped on the matter as his campaign manager gave a thumbs up to super PACs late on Monday.

The stakes are too important to play by two different sets of rules, Jim Messina, Obamas campaign manager, wrote to supporters. If we fail to act, we concede this election to a small group of powerful people intent on removing the president at any cost.

Messina forwarded a blog piece he wrote earlier in the day in which he warned of the dangerous trend toward a political system increasingly dominated by big-money interests with disproportionate power to spend freely to influence our elections and our government, adding it's a trend the president has fought against, coming into office with a mission to limit special-interest influence in Washington.

Noting that Obama opposed the Citizens United decision and understood that with the dramatic growth in opportunities to raise and spend unlimited special-interest money, we would see new strategies to hide it from public view, Messina went on about how the Democrat incumbent wanted to change the law. After bemoaning how allies of Mitt Romney and other Republicans have raised money through super PACs, Messina insisted they could not have a scenario where the Republican nominee is the beneficiary of unlimited spending and Democrats unilaterally disarm -- and so, principles be damned, Messina offered a plug to Priorities USA, a super PAC allied with Obama.

Priorities USA was formed back in April 2011 by Bill Burton and Sean Sweeney, two former Obama White House staffers. Looks like, despite Messinas anguish and Obamas principles on the matter, the Obama team had made their decision to use super PACs almost a year before they finally admitted it.