MITTBAMA: Obama's THREE different death penalty positions within the last ten years

[Proud2BAmurkin]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2007-12-22-2414012588_x.htm

In 1996, when he was running for a seat in the Illinois Senate, Obama's campaign filled out a questionnaire flatly stating that he did not support capital punishment. By 2004, his position was that he supported the death penalty "in theory" but felt the system was so flawed that a national moratorium on executions was required.

Today, he doesn't talk about a moratorium and says the death penalty is appropriate for "some crimes -- mass murder, the rape and murder of a child -- so heinous that the community is justified in expressing the full measure of its outrage."

[thunder rising]

1. Life goes on.

[Skip Intro]

15. Most ironic post I think I've ever seen.

[madeline_con]

2. I'm glad he supports it. n/t

[seriousstan]

3. Flip flop ..has become ..maturing opinion.

[Sadie5]

4. Obama says what is convenient at the time

He changes his opinions like he changes his underware. whatever fits the occasion.

[The_Casual_Observer]

5. He's a friend of the black youth gangs in Chicago too.

[jefferson_dem]

6. So this the newest lame attack meme on Obama - he's a flip flopper... Excuse me while I ...

:spray:

[mihalevich]

11. Obama is one of us

He WILL transform this nation form despair to a nation of Hope.

Yes we can change.

Yes we can heal this nation.

Yes we can seize our future.

And as we leave this state with a new wind at our backs, and take this journey across the country we love with the message we’ve carried from the plains of Iowa to the hills of New Hampshire; from the Nevada desert to the South Carolina coast; the same message we had when we were up and when we were down - that out of many, we are one; that while we breathe, we hope; and where we are met with cynicism, and doubt, and those who tell us that we can’t, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people in three simple words:

Yes. We. Can.

[annie1]

7. lmao @ mittbama. lol

[UALRBSofL]

10. OMG MITTBAMA

Is this suppose to indicate flip-floppers? Well, it's funny.

[annie1]

13. i'm still laughing over Donnie McObama. lolol

[2rth2pwr]

8. Don't pay attention to his record, just listen to

his inspirational speeches. why are you such a racist?





/sarcasm
just in case

[cloud75]

9. all this flipping will be exploited by the repukes n/t

[Windy]

12. OBAMA CHANGED DEATH PENALTY LAWS IN ILLINOIS

Please get the FACTS!!!

http://www.huliq.com/41519/barack-obama-to-change-death-penalty-law

http://www.icadp.org/page236.html (note - also pushed for more gun control)

[momster]

14. Which is Worse

taking a position and staunchly never budging, no matter what happens, no matter who it happens to, or reviewing your position in the light of new evidence and new experience and maybe changing your stance? GWB does the first. *Normal* people do the second. I prefer a president who can assimilate new information and make his decisions a trifle more flexible than 'stay the course'...right off a cliff. Even if this story were true...which I doubt (sounds like spam to me)...at least it shows Mr. Obama is *thinking* about his positions and not just doing Crazy Ivans all over the place just to get elected.

[milkyway]

16. Hey P2Burkin, you're fan club seems to be getting smaller.

[ProSense]

17. This is good:

John Kerry on Obama and McCain

[ursi]

18. the Clinton supporters are getting desperate ...time to bring up renting out the Lincoln bedroom?

[Thrill]

19. The Clinton Supporters are feeling the heat

Its called the Obama surge.

Try not to crap your pants.

:scared: :scared:

[jackson_dem]

20. By looking at his record?

Why was it perfectly fine for Obamites to swiftboat Edwards for a year, largely by using the very charge leveled against Obama in this thread, and to criticize Hillary's record but an evil crime when Obama's record is put under the spotlight?

[jackson_dem]

21. Obamites can never admit St. Obama has flip flopped numerous times

These are the same people who burned Edwards at the stake in their swiftboats for flip flopping, usually when he flip flopped along with note rethug lites like Ted Kennedy, Leahy, and John Kerry (and virtually ever other Democrat)...