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  • clapham, this is what changing positions is, this is real flip flopping

    ABORTION http://tinyurl.com/5aasz3

    AFGHANISTAN http://tinyurl.com/5kyt9z

    BALANCED BUDGET http://tinyurl.com/5e4mvu

    BUSH FUNDRAISERS http://tinyurl.com/5tnvnr

    CAR EMISSIONS http://tinyurl.com/6cjbce

    CONFEDERATE FLAG http://tinyurl.com/57pw8t

    CUBA http://tinyurl.com/57rc3o

    DEATH TAX http://tinyurl.com/6b4j6x

    EDUCATION http://tinyurl.com/6cajpa

    ELECTRIC CARS http://tinyurl.com/5gck4h

    ENGLISH AS OFFICIAL LANGUAGE http://tinyurl.com/5l8jm3

    ETHANOL http://tinyurl.com/6lkwzd

    ETHICS REFORM http://tinyurl.com/63aetg

    ESTATE TAX http://tinyurl.com/6olzgv

    GAY MARRIAGE http://tinyurl.com/5txyzp

    GI BILL http://tinyurl.com/68g66z

    IMMIGRATION http://tinyurl.com/5v2uhl

    INDEFINITELY HOLDING DETAINEES http://tinyurl.com/59dy4a

    IRAQ http://tinyurl.com/62zjv2

    IRAQ TROOP WITHDRAWAL http://tinyurl.com/5f8ewx

    JERRY FALWELL http://tinyurl.com/6jxofa

    MILITARY ACTION AGAINST ROGUE STATES http://tinyurl.com/6f9y4f

    MLK HOLIDAY http://tinyurl.com/55farc

    NEGOTIATING WITH CASTRO http://tinyurl.com/5hxfen

    NEGOTIATING WITH HAMAS http://tinyurl.com/5ohjgn

    NEGOTIATING WITH KIM JONG IL http://tinyurl.com/5l8tay

    NEGOTIATING WITH SYRIA http://tinyurl.com/653ysv

    NUCLEAR WASTE AT YUCCA MTN http://tinyurl.com/5je8az

    OFFSHORE DRILLING http://tinyurl.com/58up42

    PAKISTAN CONFUSION http://tinyurl.com/5pldzo

    PASTOR JOHN HAGEE http://tinyurl.com/5r7x7w

    PRIVATIZING SOCIAL SECURITY http://tinyurl.com/65c685

    ROMNEY http://tinyurl.com/5fe6mg

    RUSSIA AND THE G8 http://tinyurl.com/5gnz75

    SOUTH AFRICA DIVESTMENT http://tinyurl.com/58mw7q

    TAX CUTS http://tinyurl.com/59bpow

    TEACHING INTELLIGENT DESIGN http://tinyurl.com/5p5b7l

    TORTURING DETAINEES http://tinyurl.com/56zmmy

    WARRANTLESS WIRETAPPING http://tinyurl.com/66ywgd

    WINDFALL PROFITS TAX http://tinyurl.com/5rfxn4

  • Fly away hornet pest

    How does the fact you know the meaning of Forward Air Controller contribute to our discussion here? You are just like the other Repugs who fly by and drop their arrogant crap off and buzz off. Crash land somewhere else if you can't drop the arrogance.

  • Clapham

    The issue is the ample evidence of Obama changing positions strictly for political expediency

    You're getting close to a discussion of the issues there. Very dangerous territory for a pub. Didn't your RNC masters to steer clear of substance?

    Besides, you pubs love flip-floppers, remember?

    Bush Flip-Flops

    1) Bush is against campaign finance reform; then he's for it.

    2) Bush is against a Homeland Security Department; then he's for it.

    3) Bush is against a 9/11 commission; then he's for it.

    4) Bush is against an Iraq WMD investigation; then he's for it.

    5) Bush is against nation building; then he's for it.

    6) Bush is against deficits; then he's for them.

    7) Bush is for free trade; then he's for tariffs on steel; then he's against them again.

    8) Bush is against the U.S. taking a role in the Israeli Palestinian conflict; then he pushes for a "road map" and a Palestinian State. Then he tears it up.

    9) Bush is for states right to decide on gay marriage, then he is for changing the Constitution.

    10) Bush first says he'll provide money for first responders (fire, police, emergency), then he doesn't.

    11) Bush first says that 'help is on the way' to the military ... then he cuts benefits.

    12) Bush- "The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden." Bush-"I don't know where he is. I have no idea and I really don't care."

    13) Bush claims to be in favor of the environment and then secretly starts drilling on Padre Island.

    14) Bush talks about helping education and increases mandates while cutting funding.

    15) Bush first says the U.S. won't negotiate with North Korea. Now he will.

    16) Bush goes to Bob Jones University. Then say's he shouldn't have.

    17) Bush said he would demand a U.N. Security Council vote on whether to sanction military

    action against Iraq. Later Bush announced he would not call for a vote.

    18) Bush said the "mission accomplished" banner was put up by the sailors. Bush later admits it was his advance team.

    19) Bush was for fingerprinting and photographing Mexicans who enter the U.S. But after meeting with Pres. Fox, he's against it.

    20) Bush was for letting Canadian firms bid on Iraq reconstruction projects, then he wasn't, then he was.

    21) Bush had 'an alternative' to Kyoto before the election. After the election, he didn't.

    22) Bush campaigned as a 'moderate Republican'. After the election, he turns out to be a radical right-wing extremist.

    23) Bush Says: 'I WannaBEE the Peace President'. Bush defends record: 'I'm a war president'.

    24) Bush promised 'smaller government' - and added 66,000 new civilian bureaucrats to the government payrolls.

    25) Bush thinks the war on terror can be won. Then, he doesn't. Then, he does.

  • Liberty Gal

    Sarah Palin quote about the pledge of allegiance stems from a blog called The Eagle Forum of Alaska. Below is a tinyurl link to the questionnaire with her answer to the question. Below that is a link to the Eagle Forum.

    http://tinyurl.com/5a7aq4

    http://www.eagleforumalaska.org/

  • Clapham--you've discovered a politician is a liar!

    Wow. That's interesting.

    A lie about a pastor is not really dangerous to the country.

    Lying about the reasons for going into Iraq is dangerous--because the same lies could lead us straight into the next war--and I have not heard McCain say one word about the falsehoods that were spread to get the American people behind a war in Iraq...he is too busy being right about the surge I suppose.

    But here's another thing: what does the phrase "victory in Iraq" mean to McCain? I've heard a lot about Obama's platitudes...but that is the ultimate one. And it's dangerous to the future of the country, because if McCain is going to continue putting American lives at stake for a single, undefined word--I want to know what the hell that word means to him.

    Why does he continue to refuse to define victory in Iraq? As David Brooks points out, McCain (and Palin too) have a lack of governing vision--and that is the ultimate danger to a country that stands where we do in history. A week ago we were talking about advances in education and green jobs and energy alternatives and bringing the troops home, and now we are back to the same dreary lacksluster speeches that are all about Right Wing Anger and the "liberals" and nothing about acknowledging the mistakes of the Bush white house, or any articulation of how or why a McCain white house would be one bit different.

    Dangerous, my friends.

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