You really need to hit the reporters, Ben Smith and Jonathan Martin, at Politico.com, and Mark Halperin at Time's The Page for parroting the Republican talking points on this.

God, this happens every damn election.

The left identifies the right's weakness, the right take note and then more successfully accuses the left of the same thing.

Where in the hell is Obama? Why is he letting McCain dictate the narrative? If Obama hasn't "definitely changed" his position on Iraq, shouldn't his campaign put out a youtube vid highlighting this fact by showing his statements from early in the campaign and statements he is making now?

The only way the MSM reacts anymore is if a youtube vid blows up.

This has Rove's fingerprints all over it, as jweb271 suggested above: identify your opponent's strongest trait, and then attack it head-on as a weakness. And sit back and enjoy as the "liberal" media takes up your megaphone and flogs the story into the ground.

Really, TPM, you're making a huge deal out of nothing. Nobody much cares that he's adjusted his view, true or not. Because Rove was right about one thing--peeps aren't as concerned about Iraq as they are about the economy.

And the economy sucks, and that's really Obama needs to continue to point out.

Well if McFox says it so, it must be true. Time to go to the mat.

He needs to be called out on this. Where's Colin Powell? Where's Chuck Hagel?

Obama's in a real hole. There are just so many times you can make a speech emphatically declaring your veracity without ignoramuses claiming that "thou protests too much." When you go around lying like McCain and his campaign minions are doing, the only escape hatch of any real note is a diligent press. Sadly, we ain't got that.

Maybe McCain changed his Iraq position (in the fake world.) Yeah, that's the ticket. Obama wouldn't make that case, because he's too serious. But, I'm much less serious and perhaps there are enough of us on the net to start our own bullshit story.

McCain is now in favor of pulling the troops out precipitously, going far beyond anything proposed by Democrats. He advocates pulling them out in one weekend, reverse Oklahoma landrush style, using any available vehicle, many comandeered private cars, all driving at top speed toward the borders. Iraq's neighbors will welcome our troops with flowers because they love a good Republican slapstick farce and George Bush.

It's truly pathetic when all the straight-talk flip-flopper can do is accuse Obama of doing what he himself is most guilty of based on Obama's innocent use of the word "refined". Anyone who doesn't "refine" his or her judgements as the facts change or new information is assimilated is an idiot, which is clearly explified by the irresponsible stubborness of George W. Bush and John Sidney McCain. McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite. McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it. McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea. McCain defended “privatizing” Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.) McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t. McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite. He opposed indefinite detention of terrorist suspects. When the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion, he called it “one of the worst decisions in the history of this country.” McCain said he would “not impose a litmus test on any nominee.” He used to promise the opposite. McCain believes the telecoms should be forced to explain their role in the administration’s warrantless surveillance program as a condition for retroactive immunity. He used to believe the opposite. He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t. McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t. McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t. McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004. McCain was a co-sponsor of the DREAM Act, which would grant legal status to illegal immigrants’ kids who graduate from high school. Now he’s against it. McCain said before the war in Iraq, “We will win this conflict. We will win it easily.” Four years later, McCain said he knew all along that the war in Iraq war was “probably going to be long and hard and tough.” McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade to saying the exact opposite. McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed, to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed. McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February. McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it. Republicans have spent the last four years or so making policy reversals the single most serious political crime in presidential politics. The dreaded “flip-flop” is, according to the GOP, the latest cardinal sin for someone seeking national office. Any Republican, especailly any evangelical Republican, who trusts the words of John Sidney McCain is truly a person of faith.

McCain is a wannabe default flip-flopping candidate who stated (on videotape) he wasn't an economic expert before he stated (on videotape) that he was an economic expert. McCain stated he was for Roe vs. Wade before he stated he was against it. McCain stated he was against Bush's tax cuts to the rich before he stated he was for them. McCain stated he was against offshore oil drilling before he stated he was for it. McCain stated he was

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Um. John, when folk continue spewing the same lines about crap means the speaker in being 'consistant'. Contradicting ones self every over week, like you do, is flip-floping. Welcome George43 part III.