For your family/friends who call Kerry a waffler, this article is posted on CNN International's website:
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/03/30/bush.reversals.ap/index.html
(AP) -- President Bush's decision Tuesday to allow his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, to testify publicly before the commission investigating the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks reversed earlier White House insistence that she would only appear privately.
Some previous Bush reversals in the face of criticism:
# He argued a federal Department of Homeland Security wasn't needed, then devised a plan to create one.
# He resisted a commission to investigate Iraq intelligence failures, but then relented.more