On April 11, 2008, Reuters reported: Obama declines to criticize Carter on Hamas.
INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Friday it was not his place to criticize former President Jimmy Carter if he were to meet with Hamas, although Obama said he would not meet with the militant Palestinian group. ... “I’m not going to comment on former President Carter. He’s a private citizen. It’s not my place to discuss who he shouldn’t meet with,” Obama told reporters while campaigning in Indianapolis.
Five days later, on April 16, 2008, Reuters reported: Obama criticizes ex-President Carter’s Hamas meeting.
“That’s why I have a fundamental difference with President Carter and disagree with his decision to meet with Hamas,” Obama said.
Change! It’s “stick your finger in the wind” politics, from someone who is actually close to becoming the President of the United States. And he’s playing these lame opportunistic games with terrorist groups.
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You know, I'm not entirely sure he's doing this by calculation any more. I think there are at least two possible alternatives, both quite frightening:
1) He was just so drug soaked in his youth that he has no memory for positions lasting much more than a week.
2) Building on #1, he has such emotional empathy with his staff -- who were also probably quite drug soaked -- that he just puts out what "feels right" at the time and everyone is high fiving him without any critical consideration.
Or ... I might have been right all along and he really is the Manchurian Candidate. And I don't mean assassin. Unless the bullet's aimed at our country's survival.
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