Monday, July 07, 2008

Barack Obama shifting to the Right

Are you enjoying your summer of change with Barack Obama? Apparently Obama loves change so much he is changing his positions on a whole lot of issues. Obama has gone so far as to now say we can’t just pull out of Iraq until the situation there has stabilized. That is a big change from the position he adopted during the primaries. Here are just a few other issues Obama has flip flopped…oops I mean changed on:

*He was against granting immunity to telecommunication companies that aided our government in eavesdropping on telephone messages to and from known terrorist operatives overseas. Now he is for granting immunity to them.

*Obama has said several times through out his short political career that he wholeheartedly supported the ban on private ownership of guns in DC. Then, after the Supreme Court came down with their recent ruling, suddenly Obama is a supporter of the people’s right to keep and bear arms.

*Earlier this year Obama said he was going to accept public financing of his presidential campaign after the convention. Now that he has seen he can get more money from private contributions than he would from public financing, he has changed his mind.

*NAFTA? Barack was going to immediately renegotiate all of the NAFTA treaty. Now, not so much…he must of change his mind again.

*Obama once said the issue of gay marriage should be left up to the state, but now he opposes a California ballot measure that would ban same-sex marriages.

*He once opposed the Republican, later adopted by Bill Clinton, welfare reform plan, calling it “disturbing.” Now he embraces it.

Perhaps “Change you can Believe in” is just Obama changing his mind.

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