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Obama: The Biggest Flip Flop of All?

Posted by: Mike's America @ 9:22 pm in Uncategorized

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It all depends on what the meaning of the word “refine” is.

Is Obama about to drop his longstanding promise to end the war in Iraq in 2009 if elected?

Today certainly must have been a distressing day for Obamatons who had concerns about his flip flops on so many issues lately, but thought they could count on him to withdraw in Iraq.

“Refine My [Iraq] Policies”
Barack Obama
Fargo, ND
July 3, 2008

“I’ve always said that the pace of withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability. That assessment has not changed,…And when I go to Iraq and have a chance to talk to some of the commanders on the ground, I’m sure I’ll have more information and will continue to refine my policies.”

As Allahpundit points out, this isn’t the first time Obama has fudged on Iraq. And it’s got his lefty base of defeatists worried that the worst flip flop of all is about to fall.

Readers may recall that Obama refused to pledge to have all U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2013 in the September, 2007 debate. Is he now about to flip back to that earlier flop?

Is this the “change” that the Obamatons so desperately want to believe in? Or is it the unmasking of a charlatan who successfully bamboozled and dazzled millions into believing he was something new: a politician they could trust?

It will be interesting to see the reaction from liberals like Political Overload, who are already on edge about Obama.

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That’s change you can believe in.

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7 comments so far

Thomas B.

Ugh… what have I’ve been saying for a long time now. It’s another Bill “I didn’t inhale” Clinton on the way. He’s going to shape words and obfuscate the truth. It’s going to be exactly like when Clinton gave the deposition where he responded “it depends on what the definition of “is” is.”

July 3rd, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Scott Malensek

WEEKS ago his foreign policy advisor said he wasn’t gonna take action as President based on campaign promises, but rather on the conditions of the moment.

ONCE AGAIN THE LEFT BOUGHT THE, “Elect D, and we’ll end the war” LIE

You’d think people would’ve learned the lesson before 06 or after. Nope.

Fool me once, shame on me, fool me a half dozen times in thousands of speeches, and I’m just a partisan lemming/Obama supporter

July 4th, 2008 at 5:06 am

Adrian S.

Why is Obama shifting his mixed-up tortured talking points?

It’s much easier to go from “I will need lots of time to end the war” to NOT ending the war than it is from “I will end the war” to “I will not/cannot end the war.”

The former may be a trick of “maybe I will, or maybe I won’t” or can’t. But you can be sure that the latter is a non-starter in campaigning.

Obama will keep his followers guessing on all the issues (lies?) because his extreme liberal position lives in a little, small, tiny box on the very far LEFT side of even the most entrenched liberals. His position on abortion is deadly.

July 5th, 2008 at 7:29 pm

Tony Kondaks

Do pledged Obama delegates have the obligation to switch votes at the convention if they feel that he no longer represents the sentiments of those that elected him?

The DNC rules not only allow it, they encourage it:

http://www.pledgednotbound.com/

July 6th, 2008 at 9:01 pm

John personal trainer Austin TX

The new BHO doctrine - when the going gets tough we leave, but if the going gets easy we stay. I would think that since the surge is indeed working this would comport well well BHO’s original position of immediately pulling out of Iraq - our presence is not needed. Now he is hesitant to leave Iraq. I am missing something.

July 9th, 2008 at 7:03 am