Have You Noticed?
Now that the Democrats have a candidate, the candidate is backing up. Pay attention to what Senator Obama says in the near future. I’m betting that he doesn’t talk much about getting out of Iraq any time soon.
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I noticed that he flip-flopped on domestic spying.
The Democrat's strategy the last two years has been to give the president everything he wants, then call a press conference to explain how galled they are by their own behavior. It has kind of worn thin.
You're so right. And while the spin on his public financing flip-flop is that he's implementing campaign finance reform at a grass roots level because of the record high number of individual donors to his campaign, it's still a reverse of his previous position to "sit down with McCain and develop a solution that is fair to everyone." Ugh.
And this is a surprise?
This is no suprise. There are always the things you say to get the nomination and then the reality of what you can actually deliver after you are elected. Every candidate knows the reality going from the begining.
They're both flip-flopping. It is disappointing, but not a surprise in either case.
I will also add that what it takes to win a primary is not the same as what it takes to win a national election. Expect some more shifting all around.
Let's be realistic and call it what it is. You need to make some promises in order to win.
EVERY modern presidential election has been a race to the extremes in the primary and a race back to the center in the general. That's the calculus of winning an election.
The other factor that is in play here is that any candidate must start to think about what might happen in February 2009 -- and some waffling is in order to preserve the necessary flexibility for any potential POTUS.
And, of course, some of those things that seemed like clear abuses in the hands of GWB might seem like useful administrative tools in 'responsible' hands... it's an old siren song....
Agree with Curmudgeon and Minnesotablue's assessments.
I saw this coming, everyone thought he was the new George... Washington that is. What is truely disturbing is he will probably win and then the gloves will come off on both sides. Obama will show his true colors and become what he is, a politician and the press(i.e. the voice of the American people will turn on him so quickly. Similar situation, 911, bomb them get them kill them.....now why did we ever go there, Bush lied(which I think he did but that does not change the fact of 911. What is truley amazing and sad is most of your bloggers expect the presidential canidates to lie to us to get the vote.
Wendy, the readers are realists. I am too; but, I still have a fantasy that a candidate will say what he or she actually thinks.
Obama's latest middleward shift is saying that he agrees with the Supreme's gun decision. Earlier this year he told a reporter that he thought the D.C. law was constitutional.
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