Via Patterico.com.
Your Assignment: Compile Obama’s Flip-Flops
Filed under: 2008 Election, War — Patterico @ 7:11 am
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I want you to help me compile a full list of Obama’s flip-flops.
Leave a comment fully documenting one or more flip-flops. Links are critical. For maximum usefulness, I would like to see the following for each flip-flop:
1) Obama’s original quote, with a link.
2) His later flip-flopping quote, also with a link.
Here’s an example of what I’m looking for:
Flip: Obama says the health exception for late-term abortions has to be a serious physical issue:
I have repeatedly said that I think it’s entirely appropriate for states to restrict or even prohibit late-term abortions as long as there is a strict, well-defined exception for the health of the mother. Now, I don’t think that ‘mental distress’ qualifies as the health of the mother. I think it has to be a serious physical issue that arises in pregnancy, where there are real, significant problems to the mother carrying that child to term.
Flop: the health exception can include non-physical issues like mental diseases:
My only point is that in an area like partial birth abortion having a mental, having a health exception can be defined rigorously . . . It can be defined through physical health. It can be defined by serious clinical mental health diseases.
Video proof of a flip-flop is even better. Link that if you have it. I know there are videos like that out there. I want to know about all of them.
Maximum participation, people! If you do this well, I can bring it all together in a single, massive post that documents all of Obama’s flip-flops. In that post, I’ll credit each person who first documents a particular flip-flop to my satisfaction.
Now start documenting!
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:D
Lots of flip-flopping going on.
