A requiem for a flip-flop

In the 2004 presidential election, the republicans were successful in painting Democratic nominee John Kerry as a notorious flip-flopper-I know, four years ago…who remembers that? It should come as no surprise the Grand Ol' Party is once again attempting to paint its opponent as a flip-flopper, and perhaps rightly so. Over the summer, Obama declined to participate in public financing without certain preconditions; Obama 'modified' his position on an Iraq troop withdrawal sometime in July; between 2004 and 2007 he changed his mind on lifting the Cuban Trade Embargo; Obama opposed cracking down on businesses hiring illegal immigrants in 2004, but he stated in the 2008 primary debates that we should crack down on employers taking advantage of the situation; and most recently, Obama said he would delay rescinding Bush's tax cuts if the economy is in a recession. So Obama changed his mind a few times. Sounds like a typical politician to me, which hurts him in a campaign built upon hope an...
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