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“This whole notion that I am shifting to the center or that I’m flip-flopping, or this or that or the other. People who say this apparently haven’t been listening to me.”- Barack Obama 7/8/08

Really?

Quite a flip-flopper does he make.

June 08- When addressing the American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel and it must remain undivided.”

-In an interview less than 24 hours later, “Well, obviously, it’s going to be up to the parties to negotiate a range of these issues. And Jerusalem will be a part of these negotiations… My belief is that, as a practical matter, it would be very difficult to execute.”

Oct 07- Obama says, “I won’t wear that pin (referring to the American flag lapel pin) on my chest, instead I’m gonna try and tell the American people what I believe will make this country great and hopefully that will be a testimony to my patriotism.”

-A few months later, Obama began wearing the American flag lapel pin regularly.

April 08- Obama says, “I would be very interested in pursuing public financing…”

-June 08- A statement posted on his website, “We’ve made the decision not to participate in the public financing system for the general election.”

March 08- Obama, “As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me. I can no more disown him than I can the black community.”

-May 08- “Michelle and I told Reverend Otis Moss that we were withdrawing as members of Trinity.”

“I will bring this war to and end in 2009.” And on another occasion, “I opposed this war in 2002, that’s why I will bring this war to an end in 2009.”

-July 08- “I’ve always said that the pace of this withdrawal would be dictated by the safety and security of our troops and the need to maintain stability.”

Obama has always been a strong supporter of gun restrictions, until the Supreme Court struck down the Washington DC handgun ban.

-June 08- “I have said consistently that I believe the second amendment is an individual right.”

July 08- “I believe that change comes not from the top, down, but from the bottom, up. And few are closer to the people than our churches, our synagogues, our temples, and our mosques.” Vowing that he would expand Bush’s faith-based initiatives, which supplies tax money to religious groups that provide community service. However, this is the same program that liberals have been complaing about for years. Maybe not an obvious flip-flop, but one to watch for sure.

July 07- Obama promises to meet with leaders of state-sponsors of terror without preconditions.

-After much heat from both parties, Obama retracted his position saying he would have these meetings only if it could “advance the interest of the United States.”

Feb 08- When asked if he would renegotiate the NAFTA agreement he says, “I will make sure we renegotiate the same way Senator Clinton talked about. And I think that on this one Senator Clinton is right. I think we should use the hammer of potential opt-out as leverage…”

-July 08-When asked by Fortune magazine to clarify his position, he said he didn’t plan to unilaterally reopen NAFTA and replied, “I think that sometimes during campaigns the rhetoric gets overheated and amplified…Politicians are always guilty of that, and I don’t exempt myself.”

So, from one who spouts “Change!”, it looks like, in the words of Sean Hannity, “the only thing he’s going to change is his mind” in order to say whatever will get him elected.