RELH
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I was watching the news yesterday where they showed that Obama is changing his stance on several issues.
On the Iraq war they showed a clip from one of his speeches that he gave in May 2008. In that speech he stated that if elected at the end of 2008, he would withdraw all the troops and have them home in 2009. Now in his speeches he has backed away from that and has even stated that he may leave the Sec. of Defense in office and would deter to him and the joint commanders on what to do with Iraq and the removal of troops. Of course it is common knowledge that the Sec. of defense and the commanders are for staying the course and only remove the troops as the Iraq forces are able to take over. A complete flip flop on Obama's part in the last 4 months. He needed the stance of ending the Iraq war to gain the Democrat nomination.
On the NAFTA treaty agreement, in May 2008 speech, Obama stated that the treaty was so bad that he felt it will be needed to renegotiate the intire treaty. Now he is backing away from that statement since he no longer needs to use it against Hillary while campaigning against her in the East states where that was a major issue since her husband promoted the NAFTA treaty while president and alot of jobs were lost to Mexico.
I have to hand it to Obama, he will say anything and everything to get elected and it only depends on what he perceives that the crowd wants to hear to curry their favor.
So far McCain has not flip flopped to the extent that Obama is willing to do based on what I have seen and heard from clippings of his speeches. I think these issues are the reason that Obama will not debate head to head at town hall meetings where he and McCain will get pinned down on how they will handle key issues that is important to the voters.
RELH
On the Iraq war they showed a clip from one of his speeches that he gave in May 2008. In that speech he stated that if elected at the end of 2008, he would withdraw all the troops and have them home in 2009. Now in his speeches he has backed away from that and has even stated that he may leave the Sec. of Defense in office and would deter to him and the joint commanders on what to do with Iraq and the removal of troops. Of course it is common knowledge that the Sec. of defense and the commanders are for staying the course and only remove the troops as the Iraq forces are able to take over. A complete flip flop on Obama's part in the last 4 months. He needed the stance of ending the Iraq war to gain the Democrat nomination.
On the NAFTA treaty agreement, in May 2008 speech, Obama stated that the treaty was so bad that he felt it will be needed to renegotiate the intire treaty. Now he is backing away from that statement since he no longer needs to use it against Hillary while campaigning against her in the East states where that was a major issue since her husband promoted the NAFTA treaty while president and alot of jobs were lost to Mexico.
I have to hand it to Obama, he will say anything and everything to get elected and it only depends on what he perceives that the crowd wants to hear to curry their favor.
So far McCain has not flip flopped to the extent that Obama is willing to do based on what I have seen and heard from clippings of his speeches. I think these issues are the reason that Obama will not debate head to head at town hall meetings where he and McCain will get pinned down on how they will handle key issues that is important to the voters.
RELH