How Obama became a Flip-Flopper

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On "Meet the Press" Barack Obama offered an explanation for his
shifting opinions on the Iraq War, without displaying so much as a glimmer
of comprehension that what he said about himself was terribly incriminating.

Obama was singing a different tune a few years ago.

MR. RUSSERT: You were not in the Senate in October of 2002. You did give
a speech opposing the war. But Senator Clinton's campaign will say since
you've been a senator there's been no difference in your record. And other
critics will say that you've not been a leader against the war, and they
point to this: In July of '04, Barack Obama, "I'm not privy to Senate
intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don't know," in terms of
how you would have voted on the war. And then this: "There's not much of a
difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush's position at this
stage." That was July of '04. And this: "I think" there's "some room for
disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war."
It doesn't seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you
left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have
voted for it.

SEN. OBAMA: Now, Tim, that first quote was made with an interview with a
guy named Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS during the convention when we had a
nominee for the presidency and a vice president, both of whom had voted for
the war. And so it, it probably was the wrong time for me to be making a
strong case against our party's nominees' decisions when it came to Iraq.

The Senator has no observable interest in refuting the glaring inconsistency
or trying to nuance it away. He genuinely seems to believe that
illustrating the a-principled, purely political motivations behind his
fairweather war support somehow acquit him.

So now we're left to wonder - is Obama's eternal, unshakable, principled
objection to the war fictional? Or is it real, but apparently so flimsy
that he was willing to publicly disavow it.