{"id":5433,"date":"2008-06-19T05:59:53","date_gmt":"2008-06-19T05:59:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/obama-flipflops-on-nafta.html"},"modified":"2008-06-19T05:59:53","modified_gmt":"2008-06-19T05:59:53","slug":"obama-flipflops-on-nafta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/obama-flipflops-on-nafta.html","title":{"rendered":"Obama flip-flops on NAFTA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently,<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2008\/06\/18\/magazines\/fortune\/easton_obama.fortune\/index.htm?postversion=2008061810\"> things get overheated during a campaign and politicians say things they just don&#8217;t mean<\/a>. I guess that&#8217;s the post-partisan way of explaining away a flip-flop.<br \/>\nIt will be interesting to see how the Obamanites explain this away and figure out a way to attack me on it at the same time. Or maybe they&#8217;ll just state that McCain flip-flopped on drilling, so there! Or maybe they&#8217;ll face the political reality that Obama is doing what every politician has done before him: move to the center. Not much of a change, huh? Certainly not one we can believe in.<br \/>\nBut the $100,000 question is: what is his real position? The one he stated in the primary or this one? I&#8217;m betting that someone may be tempted to state that it&#8217;s the same position (better read the article before you do that, even Obama admits they are different).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, things get overheated during a campaign and politicians say things they just don&#8217;t mean. I guess that&#8217;s the post-partisan way of explaining away a flip-flop. It will be interesting to see how the Obamanites explain this away and figure out a way to attack me on it at the same time. Or maybe they&#8217;ll&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Obama flip-flops on NAFTA - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/06\/obama-flipflops-on-nafta.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Obama flip-flops on NAFTA - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Apparently, things get overheated during a campaign and politicians say things they just don&#8217;t mean. 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