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Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash
Times of London ^ | 07/04/08 | Gerard Baker

Posted on 07/03/2008 7:32:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash

The Democratic nominee's policy pivots are causing anguish among liberals. He is no fool

Gerard Baker

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; flipflop; flipper; issues; muslim; obama; sleeper
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Hmm...blatant flipfloping would be bad for him
1 posted on 07/03/2008 7:32:33 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

He’s lying, he’s a commie till the cows come home, the moonbat left needs to chill out an let bambi fool the center into believing him. Or maybe their know this and their outrage is staged?


2 posted on 07/03/2008 7:37:50 PM PDT by HerrBlucher (Barack's mesmerizing speeches are little more than oratory Three Card Monte)
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To: HerrBlucher
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“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the candidate they deserve.

1 minute satirical Obama video here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR6b-kWncI4

Hurry before some diversity loving (RIGHT!) Obamaniac at YouTube pulls it.

3 posted on 07/03/2008 7:41:46 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Obama is setting the world record.


4 posted on 07/03/2008 7:43:34 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: TigerLikesRooster

He’s a lib. This means he flip-flops.


5 posted on 07/03/2008 7:46:06 PM PDT by rdl6989 ( I'm a carbon based human being, a Carbonated-American)
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To: HerrBlucher
BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA - CHANGE YOU CAN COUNT ON, BUT DON'T WANT

THE AUDACITY OF TRUTH ABOUT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA


NOBAMA '08 SIGHTED IN EMMETT, ID, JULY 2ND, 2008

6 posted on 07/03/2008 7:46:50 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is the strangest election process I’ve ever witnessed.


7 posted on 07/03/2008 7:47:09 PM PDT by eyedigress
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So, if Obama doesn’t want to bring the troops home until Iraq is stabalized, doesn’t that give him the same position as......George W. Bush.

Someone post that over at DU, they’ll have a heart attack.


8 posted on 07/03/2008 7:47:41 PM PDT by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Whiplash..........here's some flip-flops for the poor people.

Hardware-topped thongs

9 posted on 07/03/2008 7:50:38 PM PDT by Salvation (†With God all things are possible.†)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

this triangulates like a bat at sunset.


10 posted on 07/03/2008 8:08:07 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (the present just isn't what it used to be.)
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Obama had to pander to the goofball left in order to beat Hillary and now he’s got to distance himself from the goofball left in order to try to fool the “independents” and “moderates”. In today’s cyberspace mass-media world, a wink and a nod doesn’t cut it anymore. The oily scumbag has boxed himself in, but good.


11 posted on 07/03/2008 8:11:46 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: TigerLikesRooster

A flip on Iraq will be the deal-breaker.


12 posted on 07/03/2008 8:19:52 PM PDT by Thrownatbirth (.....Iraq Invasion fan since '91.)
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To: Thrownatbirth
US Election: Barack Obama Wobbles On Withdrawing Iraq Troops
13 posted on 07/03/2008 8:23:22 PM PDT by blam
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To: eyedigress
This is the strangest election process I’ve ever witnessed.

Gotta agree there. In any normal universe nobody with Obama's pedigree would even get laughably close to the nomination by a party, let alone any actual election to the highest office on the planet.

Heck... We're better at selecting a new American Idol than we are at selecting the next President.

14 posted on 07/03/2008 8:34:32 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Ramius
I've had the TV on the Twilight Zone all evening and it seems all to appropriate.
15 posted on 07/03/2008 8:39:38 PM PDT by eyedigress
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To: Ramius
kakistocracy

kak·is·toc·ra·cy [ kàkə stókrəssee ] (plural kak·is·toc·ra·cies)

noun

Definition:

Bad government: government by the most unscrupulous or unsuitable people, or a state governed by such people

[Early 19th century. < Greek kakistos "worst"]

16 posted on 07/03/2008 8:42:35 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham ("The land of the Free...Because of the Brave")
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Looks like a lot of voters on both sides will be holding their noses this November.

“A Republic, if you can keep it!”

Indeed.


17 posted on 07/03/2008 8:45:20 PM PDT by airborne (End the "open primary" system now!!! Only Republicans should vote in Republican primaries!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
The Times of London...too bad we have to go overseas to get a true picture of what's going on with our politics......
18 posted on 07/03/2008 8:50:32 PM PDT by Intolerant in NJ
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To: TigerLikesRooster

I do hope this makes Denver all the more interesting. :)


19 posted on 07/03/2008 8:55:53 PM PDT by chris_bdba
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To: TigerLikesRooster
Only an anti-war idealist couldn't see that coming....
20 posted on 07/03/2008 9:05:48 PM PDT by endthematrix (Congress, Get Off Your Gas, And Drill!)
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