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Old 08-07-08, 04:58 PM   #1
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* McCain supported the drilling moratorium; now he’s against it.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/17/...ng-moratorium/

* McCain strongly opposes a windfall-tax on oil company profits. Three weeks earlier, he was perfectly comfortable with the idea.
http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.ph...oil-companies/

* McCain thought Bush’s warrantless-wiretap program circumvented the law; now he believes the opposite.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/On_war...h_in_0606.html

* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/06/mccain-earmark/

* McCain defended "privatizing" Social Security. Now he says he’s against privatization (though he actually still supports it.)
http://www.veracifier.com/episode/TPM_20080617
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbMRGiQOK-o

* McCain wanted to change the Republican Party platform to protect abortion rights in cases of rape and incest. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001062.htm

* McCain thought the estate tax was perfectly fair. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/..._mccain_f.html

* 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."
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15864.html

* McCain said he would "not impose a litmus test on any nominee." He used to promise the opposite.
http://www.americablog.com/2008/06/n...on-judges.html

* 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.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_105610.html
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_105211.html
and here:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/On_war...h_in_0606.html

* McCain supported storing spent nuclear fuel at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.websitetoolbox.com/tool/p...233&trail=40#3
and here:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008...ut-face-yucca/

* McCain supported moving "towards normalization of relations" with Cuba. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15617.html

* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Hamas. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ira-fo..._b_110526.html

* McCain believed the U.S. should engage in diplomacy with Syria. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15564.html

* He argued the NRA should not have a role in the Republican Party’s policy making. Now he believes the opposite.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15573.html

* McCain supported his own lobbying-reform legislation from 1997. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_102662.html

* He wanted political support from radical televangelists like John Hagee and Rod Parsley. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15633.html

* McCain supported the Lieberman/Warner legislation to combat global warming. Now he doesn’t.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15699.html
*McCain pledged in February 2008 that he would not, under any circumstances, raise taxes. Specifically, McCain was asked if he is a"‘read my lips’ candidate, no new taxes, no matter what?" referring to George H.W. Bush’s 1988 pledge. "No new taxes," McCain responded. Two weeks later, McCain said, "I’m not making a ‘read my lips’ statement, in that I will not raise taxes."
http://johnmcbush2008.org/?Flip-Flop...g_Turnabout%94
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYsKiA3Myyw

* McCain is both for and against a "rogue state rollback" as a focus of his foreign policy vision.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalra...-rewrites.html

* McCain says he considered and did not consider joining John Kerry’s Democratic ticket in 2004.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/14818.html
*In 1998, he championed raising cigarette taxes to fund programs to cut underage smoking, insisting that it would prevent illnesses and provide resources for public health programs. Now, McCain opposes a $0.61-per-pack tax increase, won’t commit to supporting a regulation bill he’s co-sponsoring, and has hired Philip Morris’ former lobbyist as his senior campaign adviser.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15033.html

* McCain has changed his economic worldview on multiple occasions.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15337.html

* McCain has changed his mind about a long-term U.S. military presence in Iraq on multiple occasions.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...d_n_99082.html
and here:
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/2...-flop-on-iraq/

* McCain believes Americans are both better and worse off than they were before Bush took office.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/19/...omy-bloomberg/

* McCain is both for and against earmarks for Arizona.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/06/mccain-earmark/
*McCain’s first mortgage plan was premised on the notion that homeowners facing foreclosure shouldn’t be "rewarded" for acting "irresponsibly." His second mortgage plan took largely the opposite position.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/15176.html

* McCain vowed, if elected, to balance the federal budget by the end of his first term. Soon after, he decided he would no longer even try to reach that goal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/16/us...in&oref=slogin
*Restoring the Everglades. On June 5, John McCain traveled to the Everglades to win over Floridians and environmentally-minded voters. There he proclaimed, "I am in favor of doing whatever’s necessary to save the Everglades." Sadly, as ThinkProgress documented, McCain not only opposed $2 billion in funding for the restoration of the Everglades national park, he backed President Bush’s veto of the legislation in 2007. "I believe," he said, "that we should be passing a bill that will authorize legitimate, needed projects without sacrificing fiscal responsibility."
http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/20...l-credentials/

* In February 2008, McCain reversed course on prohibiting waterboarding.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hanna-...n_b_86612.html
and here:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/13/...boarding-fail/

* McCain used to champion the Law of the Sea convention, even volunteering to testify on the treaty’s behalf before a Senate committee. Now he opposes it.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...aws-gop-focus/

* 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.
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/di...act_witho.html

*Fighting Job Losses in Michigan. During the run-up to the Michigan primary, John McCain cautioned workers there in January that he didn’t want to raise "false hopes that somehow we can bring back lost jobs," adding that it" wasn’t government’s job to protect buggy factories and haberdashers when cars replaced carriages and men stopped wearing hats." But after getting trounced in Michigan by Mitt Romney and watching the economy deteriorate further, McCain has had a change of heart. As Bloomberg noted on June 5:
Nowadays, the party’s presumptive nominee is singing a different tune, striking a populist pose and saying "new jobs are coming"... ...Over the past few months, however, McCain has taken a lesson from Romney, acknowledging recently that "Americans are hurting." Returning to Michigan last month, the Arizona senator told a local television station that he would fight for new jobs and the state wouldn’t "be left behind."
Perhaps the good people of Michigan, as John McCain suggested to a Kentucky audience in April, can make a living on eBay.
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001039.htm

* On immigration policy in general, McCain announced in February 2008 that he would vote against his own legislation.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com...ves/14447.html
and here
http://mediamatters.org/items/200805210004

*Opposing Hurricane Katrina Investigations. During a June 4th town hall meeting in Baton Rouge, John McCain answered a reporter’s question regarding Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the New Orleans levees by announcing: "I’ve supported every investigation and ways of finding out what caused the tragedy. I’ve been here to New Orleans. I’ve met with people on the ground." As it turns out, not so much. McCain’s revisionist history neglects to mention that in 2005 and 2006 he twice voted against a commission to study the government’s response to Katrina. He also opposed three separate emergency funding measures providing relief to Katrina victims, including the extension of five months of Medicaid benefits. And as ThinkProgress pointed out, "until traveling there one month ago, McCain had made just one public tour of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina touched down in August 2005."
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/04/mccain-katrina/

*Phasing out rather than repealing the Alternative Minimum Tax
http://money.cnn.com/2008/06/13/news...ex.htm?cnn=yes

*In 2006, McCain sponsored legislation to require grassroots lobbying coalitions to reveal their financial donors. In 2007, after receiving"feedback" on the proposal, McCain told far-right activist groups that he opposes his own measure.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/9658.html

* 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."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...d_n_99082.html

*McCain said he was the "greatest critic" of Rumsfeld’s failed Iraq policy. In December 2003, McCain praised the same strategy as"a mission accomplished." In March 2004, he said, "I’m confident we’re on the right course."In December 2005, he said, "Overall, I think a year from now, we will have made a fair amount of progress if we stay the course."
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/08/18/...eatest-critic/

* McCain went from saying he would not support repeal of Roe v. Wade http://mediamatters.org/... to saying the exact opposite.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/19/mccain-abortion/

* McCain went from saying gay marriage should be allowed,
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8809.html

to saying gay marriage shouldn’t be allowed.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/f...urrentPage=all

* McCain criticized TV preacher Jerry Falwell as "an agent of intolerance" in 2002, but then decided to cozy up to the man who said Americans "deserved" the 9/11 attacks.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/6988.html

* McCain used to oppose Bush’s tax cuts for the very wealthy, but he reversed course in February.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/6731.html

* On a related note, he said 2005 that he opposed the tax cuts because they were "too tilted to the wealthy." By 2007, he denied ever having said this, and insisted he opposed the cuts because of increased government spending.
http://www.care2.com/politics/mccain...-for-rich.html

*In 2000, McCain accused Texas businessmen Sam and Charles Wyly of being corrupt, spending "dirty money" to help finance Bush’s presidential campaign. McCain not only filed a complaint against the Wylys for allegedly violating campaign finance law, he also lashed out at them publicly. In April, McCain reached out to the Wylys for support.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1880630&page=1

* McCain supported a major campaign-finance reform measure that bore his name. In June 2007, he abandoned his own legislation.
http://www.nysun.com/national/campai...-mccain/36949/

* McCain opposed a holiday to honor Martin Luther King, Jr., before he supported it.
http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4974

* McCain was against presidential candidates campaigning at Bob Jones University before he was for it.
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8313.html

* McCain was anti-ethanol. Now he’s pro-ethanol.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortu...3132/index.htm
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT3q3PVZ_ck

McCain was both for and against state promotion of the Confederate flag.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200610310003

* McCain decided in 2000 that he didn’t want anything to do with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, believing he "would taint the image of the‘Straight Talk Express.’" Kissinger is now the Honorary Co-Chair for his presidential campaign in New York.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/12/19/mccain-kissinger/

* McCain took a firm line in opposition to torture, and then caved to White House demands.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0...p_n_96179.html
and here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deVf_fTSDP8
and here:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...cain-flip.html

* McCain gave up on his signature policy issue, campaign-finance reform, and won’t back the same provision he sponsored just a couple of years ago.
http://themoderatevoice.com/at-tmv/n...inance-reform/
and here:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/8066.html

* McCain is both for and against overturning Roe v. Wade.
http://thinkprogress.org/2006/11/19/mccain-abortion/
and here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rj-esk...n_b_41592.html
and here:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...MNS211BGEH.DTL

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Old 10-07-08, 12:48 AM   #2
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Those are not flip flops though , those sorts of decisions are only flip flops if you are on the left

Your average right whinger is like unable to see, hear or read them
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Those are not flip flops though , those sorts

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yup, this is the guy to lead us into the future:

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He (McCain) said, ruefully, that he had not mastered how to use the Internet and relied on his wife and aides like Mark Salter, a senior adviser, and Brooke Buchanan, his press secretary, to get him online to read newspapers (though he prefers reading those the old-fashioned way) and political Web sites and blogs.

“They go on for me,” he said. “I am learning to get online myself, and I will have that down fairly soon, getting on myself.
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