Obama Waffles
Barack Obama, whose campaign slogan has been all about change, has really been doing just that. In order to get the nomination Barack moved far to the left, especially in his touting that he's been against the war from the very beginning. Now, we are all watching in awe as he flip-flops his way back to the center while the MSM doesn't question a thing.
The RNC, though, has put together this great ad to highlight what a gross flip-flop his Iraq war policy really has been:
Hat Tip to John at Power Line for highlighting this video.
UPDATE: Once finished with this video you may need to read Dean Barnett pointing out how little Obama actually knows about the military.
Highlight:
Before the long weekend began, Barack Obama made a semi-flip-flop regarding the situation in Iraq, even allowing that the surge had achieved some stability and that the next president would be foolish to fritter away those gains. Predictably, this acknowledgement of the obvious triggered howls of outrage on the left. Obama firmly stuck to his new position for almost two full hours before assembling the press once more to reaffirm his long-expressed intention to abandon Iraq. “I am absolutely committed to ending the war,” the longtime community organizer declared. “I will call my Joint Chiefs of Staff in and give them a new assignment and that is to end the war.”
While everyone has focused on the first part of the statement – Obama’s “absolute commitment” to defeat – I want to devote a little attention to the second part, the mechanism whereby Obama will make that defeat a reality. In Obama’s telling, he will call in his Joint Chiefs of Staff and reset their priorities.
I know Obama is a student of military matters and intellectually voracious, so it is thus rather stunning that he would betray such ignorance regarding the way the military actually functions. In truth, the Joint Chiefs are not part of the chain of command. Indeed, they are specifically by statute not part of the chain of command but instead serve solely in an advisory capacity to the president.
Read the whole thing.
The RNC calls Barack out for his flip-flops.