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April 15, 2008

Loophole

Ed McGon at Ragged Thots compares the candidate positions on Iraq and comes up with some interesting conclusions. Could it be that Obama is more likely to keep us in Iraq than Hillary?

Posted by Karol at April 15, 2008 11:30 PM | TrackBack
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Thanks for the bloggy love Karol. :)

Posted by: EdMcGon at April 16, 2008 05:37 AM

Speaking to small-town voters in Iowa last year, Obama asked, "Anybody gone into Whole Foods lately and see what they charge for arugula?"

Posted by: Max at April 16, 2008 10:40 AM

Shoot, the Democratic candidates seemed less committed to a pullout back in January.

Posted by: Shawn at April 16, 2008 12:42 PM

What do you think about this?

A poll that suggests "superdelegates should back whichever candidate won the popular vote in the superdelegate's state", not necessarily just for whoever wins the overall popular vote. It would radically redraw the superdelegate picture, possibly in favor of Hillary, handing here the superdelegate votes from California, New York, Texas, Ohio & other big states. Perhaps her lawyers need to address this.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/04/i-havent-checke.html

Posted by: Snoop Diggity-DANG-Dawg at April 16, 2008 01:49 PM

What do you think about this?

I think it's awesome.

Posted by: Karol at April 16, 2008 02:01 PM

Is it a viable argument though? Could she take this in front of a judge?

Posted by: Snoop Diggity-DANG-Dawg at April 16, 2008 02:11 PM

Anyone who says they will pull out quickly is not telling the truth. IMO this war was a bad idea, and so is 'staying the course', but 'cut and run' won't be a quick or sensible process either. It's a big pit in a mountain of shit. Stopping digging is the first step.
The most obvious changes in opinion seem to be those of John McCain. The nonsense of US punditry is that, if you change your opinion you have 'flip-flopped'. Ridiculous. Holding on to a bad opinion in order to not be a flip-flopper would be dumb, no?

Posted by: bryan at April 17, 2008 03:26 AM

bryan, around these parts, we accuse someone of "flip-flopping" not because the person had a sincere opinion and later changed, but because the person changed positions out of convenience.

Take Bob Barr as an example as the former. Having had his ear a couple of times, I gathered that he ditched his pro-Patriot Act conservatism for Constitutional libertarianism out of deep conviction. Take John Kerry as an example of the latter. The top political quote of 2004 was, of course, "I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it." For more examples of his flip-flopping, look here. You can't tell me any of them were sincere changes of opinion. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/29/politics/main646435.shtml

This year, it became Obama competing for Hillary's title of "Say Anything," after Hillary flip-flopped within just a couple of minutes on driver's licenses for illegals.

You'll probably point out John McCain's tax position. In fact, I hope you will. It wasn't that he opposed tax cuts before, it's that he opposed them without corresponding cuts in spending. Since then, especially with excellent economic advisors, he realizes the value of cutting taxes first to stimulate the economy. Cutting the deficit is a bad economic idea if it involves hiking taxes.

Posted by: Perry Eidelbus at April 17, 2008 01:52 PM

Perry, we appear to be arguing about something we have the same opinion about. The convenience angle is interesting.

Posted by: bryan at April 17, 2008 06:32 PM
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