Wednesday, July 09, 2008

Obama flip-flops on issues depending on audience

Barack Obama is playing to the middle these days trying to pick up voters for the general election in November. But during the primaries he was left of center in a big way ... even going so far as to stop wearing his American flag lapel pin.

Charles Krauthammer writes:
You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after 9/11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism."

So why is he back to sporting pseudo-patriotism on his chest? Need you ask? The primaries are over. While seducing the hard-core MoveOn Democrats that delivered him the caucuses — hence, the Democratic nomination — Obama not only disdained the pin. He disparaged it. Now that he's running in a general election against John McCain, and in dire need of the gun-and-God-clinging working-class votes he could not win against Hillary Clinton, the pin is back. His country 'tis of thee.
Indeed. His position has changed on gun control, NAFTA, campaign finance reform ... name it and he has probably changed his position on it.

Where is the mainstream media to call him on these inaccuracies?

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