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The Obama team: flip-flop-flip-flopYou can have the most popular cause, the best intentions, and the strongest ideas. But if you can't share with the rest of us exactly what you want to do and don't want to do, your agenda will wind up in intensive care.
I don't know about other democrats but I am more than a little disappointed with President Obama. After the election I was very excited about the prospect of having a new voice in Washington. I felt certain that our new president would lead the country in a new direction.
The Obama flip-flops you don't know Since winning the election, President Barack Obama has famously flip-flopped on many of the major issues that he championed on the campaign trail. But did you know he's also flip-flopped on a myriad of less publicized issues?
Kit Bond Touts Effects Of Stimulus Bill He Voted AgainstLast week, Sen. Kit Bond (R-MO) slammed President Obama's recovery and reinvestment plan. "Hold on to your wallets folks because with the passage of this trillion-dollar baby the Democrats will be poised to spend as much as $3 trillion in your tax dollars," Bond said.
Chill Out, Canada: Despite Tough Campaign Rhetoric Obama Will Not Touch NAFTAObama isn't jettisoning NAFTA anytime soon. In fact he's embracing it.
If Barack Obama Loses, then this Video is the Cause - Obama vs. Obama: Barack's Attack Ad on Himself!What gets me is this video takes until today to get out but oh well, some media places are showing it. Even the supporters have to be miffed that their candidate for President of the United States is this uneasy on topics.
Barack Obama in His Own WordsHe says "Let's be clear." Yes, let's! That would be so nice!
Palin Promises to Balance Budget in 4 years; McCain Campaign DisagreesAt a rally in York, Pennsylvania yesterday, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin continued to declare that Sen.
Uribe: Colombian police fired on protestersColombian President Alvaro Uribe admitted Wednesday that police fired on Indian demonstrators despite a government pledge that security forces would not do so. Indians in Piendamo are shwn marching Tuesday toward the city of Cali.
McCain flips, flops and flips on abortion | Human Events | Find Articles at BNETOn August 22, 1999 McCain had this to say about his abortion stance: 'I would not seek to overturn Roe v. Wade tomorrow,' he continued, because doing so would endanger the lives of women. He promised not to screen Supreme Court nominees for their opinion on Roe."
Acorn pushes back, hugs McCainThe beleaguered Democratic-leaning community group Acorn sends over this photograph: John McCain, in March of 2006, sitting beside Florida Rep. Kendrick Meek at an event Acorn co-sponsored in Florida.
Make-Believe Maverick The missing piece of this puzzle, says a former McCain confidant who has fallen out with the senator over his neoconservatism, is a third, never realized, campaign that McCain intended to run against Bush in 2004.
McCain to show up for debate after all - CNN.comOXFORD, Mississippi (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain will attend the first presidential debate as planned Friday night, his campaign announced.
The Raw Story | Obama: McCain flip-flopped on position he's held for 26 yearsWhat "drives people crazy" about politics, says Barack Obama, is that people call for things in an election year that they've opposed their entire career. Like deregulation.
McCain Monday Morning: "The Fundamentals of our Economy are Strong." Monday Afternoon: "The American Economy Is In A Crisis" [Video] Calling Monday's economic climate the most serious financial crisis since the Great Depression, Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama attacked Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., for supporting what Obama called a failing economic philosophy.
Debate Flashback: McCain blasts Mayors and Governors as unprepared for PresidentThese are the words of Sarah Palin in her first, prepared, taped interview session. So how do you explain....? So does "never" imply, "except for those times when I DO assume to know what God wants?"
AK National Guard's Campbell Changes Tune, Gets PromotionWhen John McCain announced Sarah Palin as his running mate, the campaign immediately began touting her experience--both foreign and domestic--as "commander-in-chief" of the Alaska National Guard.
Don't you just love those expensive and over-produced political ad campaigns where you get to see airbrushed images of a politician in front of the waving flags, hearth and home? To hear that oh-so-caring voice of authority that tells you the story the politician has had writte …
I suppose I should begin with a confession: I have no problem with people changing their minds. My business is all about the art of change, all about positive change, making things better. I say change your mind, change your life, change your world.
I said I would never do it again, but now I'm going ahead and coining another new word. Flipfloppery: (noun) political inconsistency as expressed through changing positions on issues How doeth John McCain flip flop? Let me count the ways. Here's an incomplete list.
I've been investigating the impact of inconsistency in politics. With Barack Obama, we have two kinds of inconsistency in play.
Obama's Abortion and Infanticide ProblemAbortion is back with, dare we say it, biblical vengeance.
Jukebox John: 72 Policy Position Reversals of John McCainMcCain & Co. seemed to stumble on this line of attack almost by accident. They'd experimented with a variety of memes in recent months, none of which had any real salience.
McCain Staffers Trying To Cut Back On Senator's Phone Calls Because They Are " Concerned About His Tendency to Adopt the Last Opinion He Has Heard"Senator John McCain is so quick to pick up his gold-colored cellphone to solicit advice — from senators, campaign consultants, even the stray former deputy press secretary — that aides, concerned about his tendency to adopt the last opinion he has heard, have tried to cut bac …
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