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Barack Obama, Serial Flip-Flopper

June 23, 2008 09:29 AM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

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Frontal lobotomies

After reading this post, I had to add my thoughts. The Obama babies WOULD not agree that he flip flopped because the press - and recent reports prove it - spend so much time telling us how wonderful he is. There is NO negative coverage on Obama. When he flip flops, he says that he's always said... and then he makes his 180 turn. Only if you spend time to review - and I hate to say - conservative sites and view the videos which support the conclusions made there - can you truly see how Obama changes with time and circumstance. The press did not even cover his gaffe about going to 57 states and working with international leaders for the next 8 - 10 years. HUH? He is given a pass - and when McCain makes a similar gaffe - it is the topic of every late night talk show monologue. I started out as a 40 year Democratic. The party has changed - Nancy and Harry terrify me. Obama was someone I truly wanted to support. The more I read about him, the less I am convinced. Those who want Obama because he represents a change can send me a blank check. You are too trusting. I promise not to spend too much of your money. Trust me. I'll bring about change in your life. Good for you, Bonnie for pointing out the elephant in the room.

Audience of One

At least Patty of NH can support her own statement three minutes after she writes it.

I bet, Patty, that you fell for that e-video sent out to white people warning them of the dangers that if this country elects barack obama as our new commander-in-chief all the black people are going to rise up and attack us innocent, helpless white people. And since it was being said by a BLACK man... well, then that just makes it true, doesn't it??? Oooh, scary. Run for the hills white people! Allow all those years of watching black men arrested on the COPS program to sink into your rational thoughts turning them irrational. (By now you probably think the appearance of most black men's faces are truly blurry.) Same shiste that this current administration has been doing since 911... less than one year after the man was inaugurated. ...Which means fear has been their leading tool for almost the entirety of eight years!! Effective, no doubt.

Did you even READ his book, Dreams of My Father??? I'm willing to bet you did NOT. Why? Because I'm sure if he DID say those things about kikes and Israel then you've just taken them completely out of context. I'm even willing to bet he didn't even say them. You probably heard that he did and just assume what you heard was right. I have not read his book, but i have it and I'm going to read it now that you've made these statements. If I'm wrong and he presents himself as an antisemite (as you'd pain him to be) then I will be woman enough to write another comment admitting so.

Another reason that I don't believe you read the book is because people like you are RARELY open minded enough to do something like that. Have you watched the TV show 30 Days on FX??? It's a testament to the phenomenon that when people subject themselves to another's truth for a long enough period of time they inevitably change. They may not change all their opinions but they gain a deep understanding and appreciation for "the other side." People like you don't want to take the CHANCE they might see truth in another's viewpoint by doing something like reading a book. You wouldn't. Without even knowing you, I feel comfortable in making those statements. You run on emotion far more than logic. There's little place for rational in your world.

Just like the woman that professed that the Harry Potter books were evil... she never read the books. Just put her opinions out there to help scare people. It's easy to frighten people already scared. And in this country we live scared.

Perhaps you... and people as small minded as you that willfully refuse to wake up... SHOULD be scared of this man. He does hold a lot of power. He has a hell of a lot of ordinary people backing him... believing in him... hoping that we don't have to remain looking to each other and to the world as as hedonistic, foolish, and as uneducated as you sound. But not just hope... oh no, people are coming out in droves to PARTICIPATE! Voting registration has gone up dramatically! And the number of volunteers??? People are willing to work towards a better USA!! And this makes me proud. This is a great thing!

And then there are people like you railing against it. Sigh...

People like you and the person who commented above you cut, paste, and edit words to bring a whole new, deceitful, meaning to people like Obama's statements. For example, I just attended an Obama town hall meeting in Powder Springs, GA. The statement he made about religion's part in making The United States a better place was that he has always been in support of places of worship being used for faith based initiatives AS LONG AS THEY UPHOLD SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE. When the AP deleted the last part of that sentence in their article (which I'm paraphrasing, he used it embedded into the center of his statement) they changed the meaning of the entire statement. It's a devious ploy to send a deliberate message to a specified group of people (in this case his liberal left voters) that he is going to allow religion to permeate our government and our country... the underlying message? Danger! Are we looking at the beginnings to the next holocaust?? Again, it's all about fear... and the fear is based on trickery. This time I was there so I know what's true.

I often find it amazing that there are truly people out there selfish enough to try to sabotage healthy, GOOD change. Change that is PRO people! As Barack stated in Powder Springs: Just bcs taxes go up on wealthy people won't make them poor. They will remain wealthy as they did in the Clinton years. But allowing hard working middle class americans the chance to live comfortably a little easier??? That is PRO USA!!

He also made the point that he believes immigrants to this country should learn English. But just as he believes that he believes that ALL CHILDREN should be encouraged to be bilingual! That it's not a BAD, SCARY thing! That it actually makes us a stronger people! That we are more competitive in the world if we can communicate with a larger number of people. HE'S RIGHT! AND WE ALL KNOW HE'S RIGHT! Someone that is multi-lingual is seen as really smart! G*d forbid we encourage each other to do something that will put us in that light. Just because you and I passed up the opportunity to learn a second language when it would have been easier as a child doesn't mean we're entitled to the world catering to our ignorance. Yes, PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH!! You won't strain a muscle, I promise!

Oh man that felt good!

obama flip flops

obama flip flops and I voted for him in the primary. He must have thought that everyone voted for him because he was the "coolest" candidate. I voted for issues that he has now flip-flopped on. I think the DNC had something to do with this. I'll be voting for Ralph Nader. His positions don't change and if enacted would make us all the controllers of this country, not the flip-flopping politicians or the lobbyist's.

correct - above-

::: you would have to be brain-dead and low IQ to ignore the dangers of this man!

OBAMA FLIP FLOPS

Obama stands for N-O-T-H-I-N-G! He has a pathological problem perhaps stemming back to his childhood, or his drug abuse.

Flips on abortions, the war, fisa, welfare, gay marriages, on and on... is there anything he hasnt flip flopped on?

The man's entire life is a horror story, to his associations with criminals-Rezko, his associations with terrorists- Hamas, Wm Ayers, his association with hate groups- Farrakhan, Rev Wright. racist church The list is endless.

In his book of , dreams of my father, he uses racial slurs, "kikes" and says Israel needs to be punished. His racial slurs against white, typical whites.. He is nothing more than a low grade bitter racist. He has done noting but incite hate, and race baits when he "predicted" the GOP would use his color.. ENOUGH is ENOUGH people, we are sick and tired of this arrogant raicst already! You would have to be brain dead, and low IQ to annoy the dangers of this man!

Obama cambia de colores mas seguido que un camaleon.

Obama ataco a Mrs Clinton de manera despiadada por 16 meses y ahora trata de copiar la filosofia de Mrs Clinton... Obama no es un hombre original es un impostor carece de experiencia necesaria para ser el mandatario supremo de esta nacion...his health insurance plan is a copy of Mrs Clinton...he is against Nafta in Michigan but in favor of nafta in Iowa and illinois due that these states get billions of dollars from the federal government to grow corn and for the ethanol plants...he was against Mrs Clinton position about the war on Iraq but now he is willing to change his position and delay our soldiers exit from the war zone. Blacks turned their backs on Mrs Clinton to support another black without experience ...they dont even know who Obama is. Change? what change...

Obama - Not for Me

Me and my wife loosely supported Hillary Clinton. If she were the nominee, we would probably vote for her in the general election. However, Obama is an inexperienced snot, and I cannot vote for him. My wife and I will old our noses and vote for McCain. BTW, I have been a voter for 48 years, and voted for Kennedy and Johnson and Clinton, but also Reagan and Bush 43.

Obama is Jimmy Carter, Jr. Four more years of the Putz from Georgia's look-a-like will be the end of the United States.

Obama's flip-flops are only one reason to vote against him; he is simply a naive man, possibly the most inexperienced candidate for President I have seen in my lifetime.

Obama paid posters

Well, Obama's money is paying for these posters food on their table. That's ok. they got to eat, but truthfully, would the Obama people be saying all this if they were not getting paid.

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Sorry, another rightwing LIE.

I am a PATRIOTIC American, tired of the TREASON dcommitted by Bush, Cheney and their PNAC war criminal buddies.

ILLEGAL WARS of CHOICE.

Exposing CIA spy SPECIALIZING in WMD for revenge against her husband, thus SCREWING NATIONAL SECURITY that any of you rightwinger could claim you care about...

Politicizing the DoJ (Gonzales),

Ignoring Congressional subpoenas.

Bush and Cheney Refusing to TESTIFY UNDER OATH to the 9/11 Commission, one that they resisted forming for OVER A YEAR.

70 YEARS of Bush Crime Family TREASON against the USA and more, including Jim Baker, who represented the SAUDIS in a lawsuit by the 9/11 FAMILIES:

http://www.hereinreality.com/familyvalues.html

http://www.hereinreality.com/baker.html

Mc Same is more of the Mc Same...

TREASON against the USA, plain and simple

Obama paid posters

Well, Obama's money is paying for these posters food on their table. That's ok. they got to eat, but truthfully, would the Obama people be saying all this if they were not getting paid.

Here's the truth. The Article was great. It is very apparent that Obama does not know what he is doing. Sometimes I think he might even be on drugs. McCain has more integrity.

The choice is clear for me Nobama.

Just say NO deal.

USA! USA! USA!

Yeah, because George WMD Bush is just doing a heck of a job, no? It's great we found Osama Bin Laden and the U.S. Military Grade Anthrax Terrorist and won the war on terror, gas prices are low, inflation is low, our national debt is erased, the whole world just loves us, because we ended tyranny in our time, and torture, everything is just fabulous isn't it. Eight years of McCain will just be great. barf

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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