Olbermann airs extensive list of McCain flip flops

ohn McCain has claimed that the 2008 election â??is about trust and trusting peopleâ??s word â?¦ Senator Obamaâ??s word cannot be trusted.â?�

Keith Olbermann asks if the American people trust someone who has flip flopped on so many issues. He then goes on to enumerate GI educational funding, lobbying reform, campaign reform, immigration, gay marriage, abortion, nuclear waste â?¦ torture of detainees, the Iraq War â?¦ and a long, long list of other issues on which McCain has shifted positions.

This video is from MSNBCâ??s Countdown, broadcast June 30, 2008.


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It was kind of a reach on a few of them subjects but like all politicians he fits the mold.

Maybe you could help me on an earmark matter: There is a Republican Congressman from California that had received earmarks for a "special highway" that just happened to run by land that he purchased for little or nothing. I watched it on "Earmarks For Profit" one night but unfortunately didn't write down the crooks name. I've been digging for information on that since then but can't find it.

Have a good one!:s4:

Sounds like McCain is turning out to be an old, white, somewhat more reserved Obama; pandering to whichever group he's talking to at the time if the size of a potential vote shift reaches dire mass. At least, though, he will stick to some ideals at times when it could cost him the vote among Republican hardliners. I don't think everything listed in that video is exactly a "flip-flop" when he's publicly admitted that, on many of these issues (Guantanamo), he changed his stance after learning more about the matter at hand and openly admitting that he was wrong, and need to adjust his policy accordingly. Seems "flip-flop" has become a politically dangerous phrase in America that strikes fear into the hearts of any politician thinking about changing a stance based on new information. Of course we finally got one that doesn't, and look what we got: George Bush. :wtf: