The more things Obama changes his mind on the more he seems just like any other politician.
The Huffington Post also has an article about how Obama seems to be abandoning the same people who helped him get the nomination. This isn't really that surprising. Just ask Jeremiah Wright.
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You mean Obama is a politician? I'm devastated! What's a naive Obama supporter to do now?
According to Wehner, Obama's core appeal has been largely aesthetic. How would he know? One writer sarcastically described an Obama supporter that exists only in the minds of opinion columnists. Yes, I think he has more integrity than most politicians, but that's not exactly a high bar.
Every politican reverses positions. It's become easier to catch it and publicize it in the modern era.
McCain has switched on tax cuts, offshore drilling, immigration (and back again), judges/abortion, torture, ethanol, and the confederate flag.
Ironically, McCain has also changed positions on federal financing. He supported strengthening the system in 2003, but bailed on the same legislation in 2006 so that it wouldn't look so bad if he opted out in 2008. McCain tried to opt out of public financing in the primaries, but he'd already locked himself in when his campaign was in trouble and needed the money.
Peter Wehner calls Obama the "never mind" candidate, but I think Obama has addressed every legitimate item in Peter Wehner's list. You may not buy his explanation, but he hasn't said "never mind". On NAFTA, he admitted letting his tone get too harsh. On flag pins, he hasn't changed. I don't even know what the Iraq and Iran things are about.
McCain switched on a windfall profits tax, too. Within a month.
McCain also switched on the estate tax.
Man, I could list these all day!
As for abandoning the netroots, I remember Obama saying something about a year ago that was critical of Daily Kos.
The lefty bloggers like Kos commonly known as the netroots have not always been enthusiastic supporters of Obama.
Obama raises a lot of money online, but online donors are different from the "netroots", the partisan activists at places like Daily Kos.
I wasn't really talking about you. I was referring to the morons at moveon.org and so forth.
Well I'm voting for McCain on the one issue neither has really flipped on. The War.
And for the most part, McCain has flipped to the correct (in my opinion anywhere) side of most of those issues.
McCain also flipped on whether he thinks we are better off economically than we were eight years ago.
I appreciate distinguishing me from moveon.org, but I don't think they care whether Obama is principled. All they care about is which party he is in.
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