And the Flip-Flop Award goes to…
…everbody!
From where I am standing — what we regular people call the real world — people change their mind all of the time, not to mention, gain new perspectives on old knowledge. Unfortunately, Republicans seem to have forgotten that changing your mind and admitting when you are wrong is not a disease or a sign of weakness, but a sign of leadership in a person who is willing to place the good of others ahead of their own reputation.
Let’s examine the present situation. We are currently in a war that the people were either purposely lied to about in order to gain permission to wage or one that is based on faulty information. Either way we have been losing irreplaceable lives in addition to spending valuable resources without King G.W. Bush showing any hint of admitting that he was wrong. (Not to mention being held accountable for his ignorance/arrogance.) And what is so crazy about this situation is that any sane RgularJoe knows that you treat the root of the problem, not the symptom.
When is a Flip Flop not a Flip Flop
Now in an attempt to play politics and win the nomination of President, both attacks McCain has levied against Obama, McCain is showing the same short-term memory and arrogance that has left Osama Bin Laden unchecked and the Iraq war death count over 4,100 lives. Yet we should trust him as the most experienced person to lead this country out of recession and a war when he is unable to admit his mistakes or give a logical course of action to cure what actually ails America.
Quite simply, flip-flopping is not all that bad unless you are only doing it to pander to a certain political base in order to gain votes. At that point I do have a problem with the lack of resolve to stand for your beliefs. At that point I do fault McCain for flipping on Off-shore drilling, and tax cuts. I also fault Barack for ceding on wearing the flag pin and disassociating himself with Trinity Church & Pastor Wright.
The sad thing about this is that as long as Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and whoever else remain more interested in scoring political points the best of the American people never be fully served.
Peace,
RgularJoe
July 6, 2008 at 5:45 am
Obama! He’s the worst flipper I have ever seen in my entire adult life!
Well you can see why, they are buddies in their other dealing that are not really on the up and up! People are losing their homes while these two are making big deal with very low interest! Just because they are senators!
http://goodtimepolitics.com/2008/07/06/obama-joins-chris-dodd-by-getting-a-sweeter-than-normal-mortgage-deal/
July 7, 2008 at 5:01 am
My only issue with this argument is that I am pretty confident that numerous other politicians and high level executives are receiving such perks also. That is more a function of class-ism. But what really concerns me are changes in political views on tax breaks for the overly wealthy and oil drilling that increases the net worth of a select few.
We are already dealing with Cheney and Haliburton, now McCain wants to give 29% of his tax breaks to people earning over 2.5 million dollars a year. What is that?