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Barack Obama's ‘Truth Team’ could dig into his super PAC flip-flop

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 14, 2012

President Obama's reelection campaign yesterday announced a “Truth Team” to keep his Republican critics honest. It may want to start with its own candidate. In the type of flip-flop in for which they would delight in criticizing Republican Mitt Romney, the Democrats and their reelection apparatus last week completed a turnaround on their staunch opposition to campaign funding by so-called “super PACs.” It echoed another campaign finance backtrack from four years ago, when Obama ditched public financing.

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