Who is John McCain to talk to anyone about flip-flopping? If I'm Obama, I don't try to pretend I meant anything other than I did--at the time, 1,000,000 small donors ago, public financing sounded like the best way to insure that special interests would be kept out of the picture. Noone had ever experienced a presidential campaign actually funded by the people instead of the special interests. Well now we have--and that changes everything. It's politics as usual to brand people as flip-floppers. In the world most of us live in--the world of business--leaders who adapt with the times are widely admired, and those who stick with the same strategies and policies no matter what aren't just called "stubborn" (which has an admirable quality), they're out of a job. John McCain has "flip-flopped" on any number of issues in order to win the nomination of his party. McCain once considered radical right wing religious leaders like Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell--who claimed 9-11 was America's punishment for sinful behavior--to be "agents of intolerance." Now he kisses their rings. Tax cuts for the wealthy: he was once against them, thought they were fiscally irresponsible, especially in a time of war, but then decided to support them to curry favor with his party. Now we have $300 billion dollar deficits as far as the eye can see--and McCain wants to attack Obama over a change in *campaign tactics?* Please.

Posted at March 1, 2008 10:51 PM in response to Why Obama Should Reject Spending Limits