Obama’s Flips
•After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money.
• Once he threatened to filibuster a bill to protect telephone companies from liability for their cooperation with national security wiretaps; now he has voted for the legislation.
• Turning his back on a lifetime of support for gun control, he now recognizes a Second Amendment right to bear arms in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
• Formerly, he told the Israeli lobby that he favored an undivided Jerusalem. Now he says he didn’t mean it.
• From a 100 percent pro-choice position, he now has migrated to expressing doubts about allowing partial-birth abortions.
• For the first time, he now speaks highly of using church-based institutions to deliver public services to the poor.
• Having based his entire campaign on withdrawal from Iraq, he now pledges to consult with the military first.
• During the primary, he backed merit pay for teachers - but before the union a few weeks ago, he opposed it.
• After specifically saying in the primaries that he disagreed with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to impose Social Security taxes on income over $200,000 and wanted to tax all income, he has now adopted the Clinton position.
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:19 pm
Not to mention the time he said he would be more conservative than Ann Coulter, and look at him now!!! OK, he never said that, but if they get to make up stuff about Mitt…
July 22nd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
That’s quite a list. Keep that so we can refer when we need to. Leave it to Dick Morris.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Can we start a campaign to make clear what exactly a flip-flop is. It is a change and then a reverse change. The first change is a flip in position, while the reversal, usually to follow the popular whim, is the flop. Flip-floping shows that the politician will say anything to gain approval, even if he must negate his own previous arguments about why his initial change was justified. Thus none of these are true flip-flops and neither are any of Mitt’s changes in position. They are merely flips.