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President Elect Obama’s Change is More of the Same: Reversal on Gitmo?

November 16, 2008

Remember one of Obama's promises to his liberal base that he would close Gitmo? Day one he said.

Suddenly, civil liberty lawyers, the NY Times, and Barack himself are adopting the Bush doctrine. Perhaps sniping from the sidelines was easier than facing the complexity of reality.

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Despite His Previous Statement, Obama to Attack McCain on Role in “Keating 5″ Scandal

October 6, 2008

By Jake Tapper 

ABC NEWS - On Monday the Obama campaign will start hitting Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., on his role in the late 80s/early 90s Keating 5 scandal, despite previous indications by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill, made months ago, that the scandal was not "germane" to the presidency because McCain had apologized for his role.

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Written by Against Obama · Filed Under Barack Obama, Flip-Flops, News, Scandals, john mccain 

Bush Calls Obama & McCain: Obama Caves In, Will Go to DC

September 24, 2008

By Michael Abramowitz

WASHINGTON POST - White House spokesman Tony Fratto said President Bush called Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama tonight around 7:30 pm. Bush and GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain also spoke this afternoon, and their staffs conferred afterwards, Fratto said.

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Written by Against Obama · Filed Under Barack Obama, Flip-Flops, Todays News, john mccain 

Obama on Biden’s Initial Opposition to AIG Bailout: “Joe Should Have Waited”

September 23, 2008

By Jake Tapper

ABC NEWS - "What has been clear during this entire past ten days is John McCain has not had clarity and a grasp on the situation," Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told NBC's Matt Lauer in an interview that ran this morning.

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Biden scrambles back on message

September 23, 2008

The Republicans can reset their Joe Biden gaffe clock.

The Democratic vice presidential nominee went off message in an interview broadcast Monday night and had to quickly pull back.

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Written by Against Obama · Filed Under Barack Obama, Flip-Flops, News, Todays News, joe biden, john mccain 

Why Is Joe Biden Still Taken Seriously?

September 22, 2008

By Jim Geraghty

The McCain Campaign is chuckling over this exchange from Sunday:

CNN's Wolf Blitzer: "He [Joe Biden] was on the Today Show. He opposed the bailout of AIG and then the Obama campaign the next day said there was no choice. Did Joe Biden make the same mistake that John McCain made?"

Austan Goolsbee: "Well, I would — we don't have the transcript here, but I have read it and I would disagree a little bit. It was clear from the entire paragraph that Joe Biden was not saying he was opposing a bailout. What he was saying was that it's not their first choice along the lines of where John McCain ended up and where Senator Obama was all along."

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Written by Against Obama · Filed Under Barack Obama, Editorials, Flip-Flops, Todays News, joe biden 

Obama Throws in the Towel on the Surge

September 4, 2008

Barack Obama will appear on Bill O'Reilly's show tonight. Reportedly, he will say that "the surge has succeeded in ways that nobody anticipated. I’ve already said it’s succeeded beyond our wildest dreams."

I must have missed that speech. Of course, Obama still says he was right to oppose the surge, notwithstanding its now-acknowledged success.

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Let The Flip-Flopping Begin! Obama Concedes Surge Succeeded ‘Beyond Wildest Dreams’

September 4, 2008

FOX NEWS - The troop surge in Iraq has been more successful than anyone could have imagined, Barack Obama conceded Thursday in his first-ever interview on FOX News’ “The O’Reilly Factor.”

As recently as July, the Democratic presidential candidate declined to rate the surge a success, but said it had helped reduce violence in the country. On Thursday, Obama acknowledged the 2007 increase in U.S. troops has benefited the Iraqi people.

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Written by Against Obama · Filed Under Barack Obama, Flip-Flops, Iraq, News, Todays News 

Obama’s gun ban rhetoric: For it before being against it, now no longer for it

September 1, 2008

By John R. Lott
 
WASHINGTON TIMES - Sen. Barack Obama's campaign just won't let the gun issue rest. Mr. Obama and his campaign surrogates continue to assure gun owners that he is on their side, and it appears to be paying off. John McCain only leads Mr. Obama among hunters by 14 percentage points, just about half the 27-point lead that President Bush held over John Kerry in 2004. If Mr. McCain had a similar lead, he would be ahead in most polls, particularly in many battle ground states.

Yet, despite all the Democratic claims to the contrary, Mr. Obama is undoubtedly the most anti-gun candidate ever nominated by a major party for president.

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Obama’s 2003 Stand on Abortion Draws New Criticism in 2008

August 20, 2008

By Larry Rohter

NYT - Abortion, a familiar issue in elections past, has again emerged in recent days as a focus of controversy. Senator Barack Obama is coming under intense fire from anti-abortion groups because of the position he took as an Illinois state senator on legislation regarding the status of fetuses that survive abortion procedures.

 Both Mr. Obama and his critics agree that, as chairman of the Health and Human Services Committee in the state legislature in 2003, he led efforts to defeat a bill called the Born Alive Infants Protection Act. But they disagree about virtually every other aspect of the legislation, from its meaning and purpose to the breadth of its application.

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Obama, Party Loyalty, and His Own Best Interest

August 19, 2008

By Rick Richman

AMERICAN THINKER - There has been a lot of commentary already on the forum at Saddleback Church, but one Obama answer bears some further fact-checking.

In response to Pastor Rick Warren's request to provide "an example of where you went against party loyalty and maybe even went against your own best interest for the good of America," Obama gave two examples:
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