Another McCain Flippity Floppity - On Affirmative

[jefferson_dem]

McCain Reverses Himself on Affirmative Action
July 27, 2008 9:11 AM

ABC News' Teddy Davis and Kevin Kilbane Report: During a "This Week" interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos John McCain reversed himself on affirmative action and endorsed for the first time a proposed state ballot measure which would end race and gender-based affirmative action in his home state of Arizona.

"I support it," McCain declared when asked about the referendum. "I do not believe in quotas... I have not seen the details of some of these proposals. But I’ve always opposed quotas."

McCain has long opposed quotas but his new support for ending affirmative action programs which stop short of quotas puts him at odds not only with Democratic rival Barack Obama but also with the Arizona senator's own views in 1998.

Back then, when the legislature in McCain's home state of Arizona considered sending the voters a measure to end affirmative action, McCain spoke out against it calling it "divisive."

McCain's campaign does not dispute that the Arizona senator spoke out against the 1998 effort to end affirmative action in his home state.

When asked about the apparent change in position, a McCain spokesman was not able to distinguish the two measures.

"I do not have a firm enough grasp on the historical and relevant context of McCain's remark in 1998 to give you the pushback that this question deserves," McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds told ABC News.

McCain's critics on the left charge that he has changed his position on affirmative action in order to shore up his support among conservatives.

"This is clearly an election-year flip flop and a pander to a skeptical right-wing base," said John Kraus, spokesman for the liberal Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. "He has put politics first on this issue. There is no other way around it."

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http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/07/mccain-reverses.html

[TeamJordan23]

1. not surprising, but this will get ignored by the MSM. nm

[treestar]

2. another thing that will get the freeps mad at him

Maybe they will stay home.

[high density]

3. "Pushback?"

I guess that means he couldn't think of a lie fast enough to explain this one away? The McCain camp doesn't even know the historical positions that its own candidate has taken on the issues. That's great for us, especially considering one of their main talking points is McCain's long DC experience. That experience is now unraveling every day as kooky McCain of 2008 is compared with the McCain of the past, and it shows a man that will apparently sell out his values to become President.

[NYC_SKP]

4. He just makes it all up as he goes along.

Absent the teleprompter, I swear it seems like most of his responses come out of nowhere, there's no indication of sincerity or commitment.

:patriot: