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Scraping at the teflon

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If you saw Countdown last night, as Rachel Maddow and Richard Wolfe discussed why Obama was taking heat over the 4th of July weekend about supposedly shifting position over Iraq, accompanied by old Obama quotes with the same position, you may have gotten frustrated all over again over the disparity.  I'm not worried so much about the knocks Obama takes; if he can't take the knocks, he won't be ablt to be president.

It's that McCain flips and flops and lies on a regular basis, documented by his own public record, and nobody says "boo."

But rather than getting frustrated, we should be pushing back against every media outlet, every time we catch them doing it.  That means sending intelligent letters and e-mails to all media outlets, including your local TV stations and newspapers.  If we keep up the heat, perhaps we can shift the tide.


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I'm a dorkie robot who has temporarily filled that big hole inside me where a personality should be with Uncle O.

Didn't your mom die at Jonestown?

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I appreciate the post and agree. Thanks.

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And don't forget to copy and paste to them Russell King's herculean effort to compile all McCain's flip-flops: 48 of them!

(You know Ambinder's posted that McCain's campaign has compiled a list of 17 Obama flip flops?

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/07/mccians-recordsetting-flipflop.php

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