I predict that Obama will, before the election, come out in favor of drilling offshore and in ANWR.
I agree with your prediction. He will flip on drilling.
My prediction to my moon-bat father really pixxed him off. Obama, if elected, will use an unelected “commission” for cover to stay in Iraq. He’s not dumb enough to surrender while winning.
Now I have an interesting anecdote.
A liberal CPA friend was at some Washington DC meeting that had the top economic/tax advisors for McCain and Obama talking/debating about their tax policy. Obama’s rep (I think it was a she, but I will use he) was a total joke. He could not answer any question directly. All of the answers were “Obama has been too engaged in the campaign for the past year to think about specific tax policy”.
The liberal came way with the feeling that the Obama people were never going to commit to any position OR that they actually had no position. Either way, she was annoyed, dismayed and p-ssed to be lied to.
There's only so far the Messiah can go before he loses the "idealistic" left-wing base and the oft-predicted "youth vote". It's one thing to flip-flop on public financing or gun control, but off-shore drilling is a fault line neither he, nor the left-wing Democrats dare straddle, if they don't want the environmentalists abandoning ship for Nader. It would be really hard to persuade Ralphie boy not to mount a serious effort if Obama moves to McCain's side on drilling.
Prediction correct. He will beat McNut to the punch. McNut has an ego so huge it blocks his logical brain process. Too bad I have to vote for lame brain McNut. Damn, he is so slow.