I remember starting a post about principles and waffling. Either I did not finish it, and lost the post or I took those comments out.
In any case the topic came up again today, and it is getting more and more play out there in the media. How exactly a candidate for office can stand on…
…NOTHING. Now, the nothing comment is my own conclusion for if you do not have principles to stand on, then you have nothing to stand for, thus you cannot demonstrate any form on integrity. Honor, Courage, Commitment…. Hmmmmm no principles, then those words can not form the basis for your character.
In BHO, we find a presidential candidate that has no principles, and no positions. He waffles on everything of importance. Earlier, I ran across this list:
• After vowing to eschew private fundraising and take public financing, he has now refused public money.
• Once he threatened to filibuster a bill to protect telephone companies from liability for their cooperation with national security wiretaps; now he has voted for the legislation.
• Turning his back on a lifetime of support for gun control, he now recognizes a Second Amendment right to bear arms in the wake of the Supreme Court decision.
• Formerly, he told the Israeli lobby that he favored an undivided Jerusalem. Now he says he didn’t mean it.
• From a 100 percent pro-choice position, he now has migrated to expressing doubts about allowing partial-birth abortions.
• For the first time, he now speaks highly of using church-based institutions to deliver public services to the poor.
• Having based his entire campaign on withdrawal from Iraq, he now pledges to consult with the military first.
• During the primary, he backed merit pay for teachers — but before the union a few weeks ago, he opposed it.
• After specifically saying in the primaries that he disagreed with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) proposal to impose Social Security taxes on income over $200,000 and wanted to tax all income, he has now adopted the Clinton position.
Obama’s breathtaking flips and flops are materially different from McCain’s. While McCain had opposed offshore oil drilling and now supports it, the facts have obviously changed. Obama’s shifts have nothing to do with altered circumstances, just a change in the political calendar.
As a candidate who was nominated to be a different kind of politician, Obama has set the bar pretty high. And, with his flipping and flopping, he is falling short, to the disillusionment of his more naïve supporters. One wag even called him the “black Bill Clinton,” a turnaround of the “first black president” moniker that had been pinned on Bill.
What gets more interesting is the actual level of experience that this candidate has. It is non-existent (143 days of in session Senate time).
For those of you still paying attention, please take a long hard look at your candidate before you vote in November. I am deathly afraid that we are at a historical tipping point, we had best tip things in the correct direction.