And the John Kerry of this presidential race is…Barack Obama!
Yep, even though Mitt Romney has been attacked as being the biggest flip flopper in the election 2008 presidential race, the Associated Press released a story that points to Barack Obama as actually being the winner of this honor.
But the AP’s own recitation shows that Obama has changed his position on far more issues than Romney: the death penalty, a ban on handguns, the Patriot Act, socialized (”single payer”) medicine, and repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act. As for the AP’s assertion that Obama’s flip-flops haven’t been “major shifts,” why not? He used to be in favor of socialized medicine, but now isn’t. He called the Patriot Act a “shoddy and dangerous law,” then voted to renew it. He opposed a federal ban on same-sex marriage, then supported it. By what standard are these not “major shifts”?
