Yet to Come: The Biggest Flip-Flop of Them All
MCCAIN REPORT BLOG
Obama was a relative moderate on the war during his first year in the Senate. He gave one speech against the war in 2002, but by the time it became clear he would face no serious challenger in his Senate race, he cooled his rhetoric, and even spoke out against timetables for withdraw. When he arrived in Washington, he waited 18 months before making his first floor speech on Iraq. Then Obama began his campaign for the presidency. Playing to the Democrartic party's antiwar base, Obama pledged to withdraw troops regardless of the facts on the ground. He opposed the surge, and even warned that it would make the violence worse. And as progress became apparent, he stubbornly refused to recognize the gains our troops were making.
But Obama is a man of change. Just in the last week he dropped his opposition to telecom immunity, his support for handgun bans, his pledge to take public financing and renegotiate NAFTA--all core issues for Obama, or they were supposed to be. So what issue will he shift on next? After looking at the numbers from yesterday's Quinnipiac battleground polls, we're betting Iraq. It turns out that Americans as a whole aren't nearly so eager for surrender as the left-wing of the Democratic party, and Obama isn't much for staking out unpopular positions.
The left should brace itself: Obama's going to be pro-surge, pro-troops, and pro-victory by this time next month.
http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=27311da7-b1d3-4f10-9389-3d16fe21c273
LMAO...the left has been had. :lol:
I can't wait to watch Kos and some of the loons here scream.
MCCAIN REPORT BLOG
Obama was a relative moderate on the war during his first year in the Senate. He gave one speech against the war in 2002, but by the time it became clear he would face no serious challenger in his Senate race, he cooled his rhetoric, and even spoke out against timetables for withdraw. When he arrived in Washington, he waited 18 months before making his first floor speech on Iraq. Then Obama began his campaign for the presidency. Playing to the Democrartic party's antiwar base, Obama pledged to withdraw troops regardless of the facts on the ground. He opposed the surge, and even warned that it would make the violence worse. And as progress became apparent, he stubbornly refused to recognize the gains our troops were making.
But Obama is a man of change. Just in the last week he dropped his opposition to telecom immunity, his support for handgun bans, his pledge to take public financing and renegotiate NAFTA--all core issues for Obama, or they were supposed to be. So what issue will he shift on next? After looking at the numbers from yesterday's Quinnipiac battleground polls, we're betting Iraq. It turns out that Americans as a whole aren't nearly so eager for surrender as the left-wing of the Democratic party, and Obama isn't much for staking out unpopular positions.
The left should brace itself: Obama's going to be pro-surge, pro-troops, and pro-victory by this time next month.
http://www.johnmccain.com/McCainReport/Read.aspx?guid=27311da7-b1d3-4f10-9389-3d16fe21c273
LMAO...the left has been had. :lol:
I can't wait to watch Kos and some of the loons here scream.