The NY Times reports that the Obama campaign is having trouble meeting its fundraising goals after its decision not to accept public financing.

So now Obama is embracing outside 527 groups (ie, groups like MoveOn and the SwiftBoat vets).

You might recall, when Obama broke his pledge to accept public financing, his excuse was that the system was broken, and that he needed money to fight Republican outside groups that were out to slime him.

Now it turns out that he won't take public money and he will be relying on outside groups.

A new kind of politics, indeed.