Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash

Change, it turns out, wasn't all that it was cracked up to be. Having campaigned for the past year as the agent of transformation, the man who would lead an historic shift in America's political direction, Barack Obama is discovering that there is quite a lot he likes about the way things are.

Since securing the Democratic nomination a few weeks ago, the only change coming from the Illinois senator has been in what he seems to stand for. Last month he dropped his opposition to a Bill before Congress that would give telecoms companies immunity from prosecution for carrying out illegal wiretaps on potential terrorist suspects.

He told a cheering crowd of Israel's supporters of his fervent commitment to the security of the Jewish state and added, for good measure, that an “undivided” Jerusalem should be the nation's capital. He said that he likes free trade after all, and that his primary campaign pledge to dismantle the North American Free Trade Agreement was a case of “overheated rhetoric”. ... If next week he named Dick Cheney as his running-mate and revealed that he spends his spare time drilling for oil in wildlife habitats, the only surprise would be that it took him so long.

What’s interesting about this analysis is that it’s being done at all. Of course the MSM are still not calling him a flip-flopper, they are referring to his “flexibility” (the NY Times), columnist E.J. Dionne tells us that Obama's Faith-Based Reform is a GOOD thing. another Post writer refers to his “…easing toward the center..” in (“Obama May Consider Slowing Iraq Withdrawal.”)

This is the sort of thing that the MSM is good at: changing the past and redefining the future. Unfortunately for the media and its acolytes, they are no longer the only ones with access to the past. Twenty years ago, the back issues of newspapers and magazines were only accessible to the paper’s staff and library researchers. Today Google and YouTube have made the millions of denizens of the Internet researchers par excellence. And the past cannot be erased as easily as it once was; in fact it can’t be erased at all and the result is a rapidly shrinking MSM as handmaidens of the Left. ...

According to the Post: "My 16-month timeline, if you examine everything I've said, was always premised on making sure our troops were safe," Obama told reporters as his campaign plane landed in North Dakota, a state no Democratic presidential candidate has carried since 1964. "And my guiding approach continues to be that we've got to make sure that our troops are safe, and that Iraq is stable. And I'm going to continue to gather information to find out whether those conditions still hold."

Let's see: troops safe and Iraq stable. What's the difference between Obama and Bush on the war again?

"Let's see: troops safe and Iraq stable. What's the difference between Obama and Bush on the war again?"

Rational analysis tends to get the Daily Kos kidz really angry.

They are already foaming at the mouth over Obama's latest flip-flop over the war.

Obama has the Kos cash, and he is now giving them the middle finger.

Priceless.

Just goes to show what happens when a man is chosen for presidential candidate based on who he is rather than what he’s done. Obama’s got zero experience to prepare him for the presidency, so he’s pretty much reduced to flip-flopping on issues and hoping he has the right plan down on election day.

Heaven help us if he does get elected and he continues to show this kind of indecision in office.

Exactly, in the words of Napoleon:

“...Never interrupt your enemy when he his making a mistake..”

The Koz Boyz are tasting some bitter medicine at the moment, “Obama LIED to us...”

Say it ain’t so Barry, just say it ain’t so...LOL!

Obama will toss away that silly Green Zone in Baghdad, but I’ve been saying from the get-go that he’ll NEVER be permitted to dump Balad/Anaconda.

That’s just not gonna’ happen.

Even Presidents have limits.

Some other changes:

Changed his church
Changed his friends
Changed his birth certificate
Maybe changed the status of his birth (from illegitimate to legitimate)

Of course, we won’t know about the birth certificate stuff until he releases his REAL birth certificate.

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