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Collins: Obama's Not Flip-flopping—He's Bringing Us Together
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 07/09/2008 10:10:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Bob Herbert just doesn't get it. As Noel Sheppard has noted, in his NYT column today Herbert accuses Barack Obama of "lurching right when it suits him, and . . . zigging with the kind of reckless abandon that’s guaranteed to cause disillusion, if not whiplash." The NY Times columnist goes on to condemn the candidate for "pandering to evangelicals;" agreeing with Justices Scalia and Thomas on a "barbaric" interpretation of the 8th Amendment; and playing a "dangerous game" with his "shifts and panders."

No, no, no, Bob! That's not what's happening at all. Obama isn't flip-flopping. He's simply fulfilling his pledge to bring us together. What makes Herbert's obtuseness all the more infuriating is that enlightment was just a stroll down the corridor away, to the office of Gail Collins. Herbert's fellow Times columnist explained what is really going on during her appearance today on Morning Joe.

View video here.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: barackobama; beatles; flipflop; flipflops; gailcollins; obama
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1 posted on 07/09/2008 10:10:04 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; netmilsmom; Diogenesis; YaYa123; MEG33; ...

Got to be good looking ‘cause he’s so hard to see ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 07/09/2008 10:11:17 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

He’s simply fulfilling his pledge to bring us together....

Right!....because it’s easier to pick our wallets when we’re “all together”....


3 posted on 07/09/2008 10:12:35 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

She must think she’s one of the Greek Sirens that when she opens her mouth all men will listen and believe. She’s full of it on Obama.


4 posted on 07/09/2008 10:16:32 AM PDT by K-oneTexas (I'm not a judge and there ain't enough of me to be a jury. (Zell Miller, A National Party No More))
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It’s not zigzagging...it’s weaving a wicked web.


5 posted on 07/09/2008 10:17:54 AM PDT by politicalwit (AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Collins embodies what another FReeper posted on another thread:

H. L. Mencken, known for his "definitions" of terms, defined a demagogue as "one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

6 posted on 07/09/2008 10:21:53 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: N. Theknow

“one who will preach doctrines he knows to be untrue”

Interesting: I was just IMing with a friend and wrote that I don’t think Collins herself believes that Obama isn’t flip-flopping.


7 posted on 07/09/2008 10:23:27 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
He got muddy water...
He want mojo filter...

He's rock... and he's country. He's Donnie... AND... he's Marie!

8 posted on 07/09/2008 10:25:11 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: N. Theknow
Collins embodies...

“The Cause”...

9 posted on 07/09/2008 10:27:03 AM PDT by johnny7 ("Duck I says... ")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

” It’s just that he said it in such a neat way..”

Obambi to left,”SUCKERS!!”.


10 posted on 07/09/2008 10:28:00 AM PDT by y6162
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

In other news, Access Hollywood, some trashy all-celebrities-all-the-time tripe that my wife watches, is doing a breathless “American Idol” rockstar “interview” of the Obamas in a 2-parter.

The pedestal they put him on isn’t large enough to support his messianic ego.


11 posted on 07/09/2008 10:36:35 AM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I think Gail Collins makes Maureen Dowd look like a right wing Repub, do not take her radical, extremist, nonsensical comments seriously. I think she is so badly blinded by hatred of Bush and the Repubs and that she will say anything to help Obama and the dems.


12 posted on 07/09/2008 10:41:19 AM PDT by moose2004 (Go Ahead, Make My Day)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I’ll be happy if he fulfills his pledge to bring us together by making his base as disgusted about his positions as we are.


13 posted on 07/09/2008 11:07:03 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I may have to revise my (low) opinion of B. Hussein Obama:
any man Bob Herbert doesn’t like can’t be all bad.


14 posted on 07/09/2008 11:07:21 AM PDT by Redbob ("WWJBD" ="What Would Jack Bauer Do?")
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
MEGoody: Obama is most definitely a flip-flopper, a panderer, and a political opportunitst.

And he's evil.

15 posted on 07/09/2008 12:00:37 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall cause you to vote against the Democrats.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Gail Collins, among the stupidest people on earth. She is dripping with White guilt and thinks she can find the words to trick us into joining her as she wallows in rat shiite while flogging herself with a cat & nine tails.


16 posted on 07/09/2008 12:04:26 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Liberals always see in themselves as virtue those things they condemn in others as vice. Liars and hypocrites, all.


17 posted on 07/09/2008 12:11:10 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mark, you have a tough job — there’s no amount of money that would make me want to suffer through these charlatans on “Morning Joe” every day...... I’m happy to say I know nothing of the show except what you post here. :^)

How did Gail Collins ever get the idea that Obambi’s flip-flops can bring anyone together? It’s only a question of whether he can fool enough people to get himself elected, and then he will go on being the leftist that we know him to be.


18 posted on 07/09/2008 12:12:53 PM PDT by Enchante (OBAMA: "That's not the Wesley Clark I knew!")
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To: Enchante

Thanks, enchante. I actually get a twisted pleasure from observing the antics of liberal pundits. I do draw the line at Olbermann, though. Very rarely can bring myself to watch. But Morning Joe has a sense of humor, and Scarborough gets off some good lines at times.


19 posted on 07/09/2008 12:17:37 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Keeping track of the MSM so you don't have to!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

  Again I ask, why are leftist women so damned homely?

20 posted on 07/09/2008 12:59:38 PM PDT by Fintan (Lisa? Lisa??? Wake up, you gotta leave...)
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