Science and Society

This is grand. I've been watching sites scrub Obama's crap since last year. Glad to know somebody else saw what a shifty character he is.

It's like the daily show, only without the video montage and wise remarks!

Come on people and have a little common sense during this election. Some change is necessary. Everyone complains about Bush not changing his mind, but then complain about McCain or Obama changes their minds. It’s problem when they act like McCain and change their mind and claim that was their opinion all of the time.

do they "weight" the changes

like going from a regulation guy ...to a non regulation guy in the space of an hour...after the country loses a trillion dollars.

or going from for the war to ...we didn't go in right to it was a success...

after the country loses a trillion dollars...

or going from a regulation guy with friends flying you around in jets and vacationing with bank executives and having deregulation lobbyists as your inner circle and then flipping (temporarily) after you are put on trial and given ethics reprimands...and after...drum roll

the country loses a trillion dollars

3 times this guy is at the center of a trillion dollar national loss...

and we are even looking at him...

oh it must be because of his really incredible qualified VP...you know the one who started 10 years ago in a step aerobic class she shared with the mayor and chief of police of her town.

ugh

"sarah why did they disinvite you to the rally against Iran"

"well I can't see it from my house ya see...

there is a tree in the way"

I have nothing against changing positions, in fact, I would say that it is a sign good leader who has the ability to change his position as new information come to light.

I just think that new information should be something other than popularity. . .

On the same day Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, Meryl Lynch was sold for pennies on the dollar to Bank of America. John Thain became CEO of Merrill Lynch in December. Thain's $81 million pay package made him the second highest-earning CEO in the nation this year. Bloomberg News reported that Thain could make another $11 million.

Thain is one of McCain's chief economic advisers. In less than a year the guy took down a BILLION dollars while running the company into a ditch. And McCain is complaining about golden parachutes?????

KITTY...maybe you failed to see how many times McCain has shifted his views, ideas, and policies to match what is the "going" thing in order to get the votes?

dl...they dis-invited Palin because the whole purpose of this rally was to show Hilary supporters that she supports Palin!!! Palin is a nobody with dreams of grandure.

wake up and smell the roses! McCain
comments about Obama's change forum, yet McCain has used it numerous times, plus his policies change to meet what some people want to hear. Palin?????? What does she know??? She doesn't know foreign policy, economy and can't seem to answer questions, she rattles on as she did with Charlie Gibson. Gibson was doing his job interviewing her, wake up people and listen to her. She couldn't answer a yes or no question, asked about foreign policy - talked about energy. At a recent town hall meeting she was asked a question, she didn't answer (or wouldn't), but she's prepared for vice presidency or presidency. WAKE UP.

I like the watch dog element to this for both the Obama and McCain camps. I'm most interested in revisionist history than the normal and expected adjusting of course as election day nears.

Funny how every blog turns into name calling. Ya'll need to get over the fact that not everyone thinks like you or agrees with with what you think is important.

Suggest you all watch the Bill Clinton clip from The View where he discusses what is important to each individual voter. Very insightful stuff from the ex-Pres.

Just vote! Many have paid the ultimate sacrifice to give you the 'right' to do so.

I sort of agree with Calis, but new information seems to escape the candidates until one gets a little press on a position, then the other sees the "wisdom" and rethinks his position. It's all a little too fluid to me. Most of their philosophy should have been in place before they threw their respective hats in the ring. Mind-changing doesn't always indicate flexibility of thought. It sometimes signals indecisiveness. Worse, it may indicate how easily they can be influenced by outsiders.

How often they change their position is not the whole story. You also have to factor how quickly they change their position, their reasoning behind their change of position, and if they are being truthful about their change of position. You have to look at both candidates using the criteria in both statements and websites. This time, I am not taking any sides since I know both are guilty. Ill let the reader of this comment decide who has deserves the most blame for Flip-Flopping.