Barack Obama & John McCain: Flip Flop Comparison Chart

Both Senators Barack Obama and John McCain have done the flip on major issues. Saying that one man is a bigger flip flopper than the other is like getting out a scale to weigh their summer sauts to decide which man is the greater flipper flopper. Obama and McCain are well matched in the flip flop arena. It does not seem like McCain's greater age and experience give him an edge over the younger Obama when it comes to the skill of flip flopping.

The list of tumbles is too long to continue here. It includes changes of positions on national security, foreign policy, domestic policy, energy policy, etc. But you can find more flip flops by Senators Obama and McCain on these links:

=> For a complete list of Barack Obama flip flops, click here.

=> For a complete list of John McCain flip flops, click here.

What these men have done is make flip flops so common that before this elections season is over, Americans will be desensitized to flip flops by politicians. As we've been lied to by our parents, pastors, priests, players, politicians and other people of influence, so that we say hopelessly and simply, "Everybody lies". So, in future elections, whether local or national, flip flops (lying) will become a minor thing to worry about, unless it is something like perjury or "lying under oath". We are poised to start saying with reference to politicians, "Everybody flip flops".

Barack Obama Flip Flops Again - Good!

It was just yesterday that I blogged that Senator Barack Obama would lose the 2008 presidential elections to Senator John McCain over the biggest issue of this time: energy. My prediction was that Obama's insistence on toting the party line against offshore drilling puts him on the wrong side of the sensible majority of the American public, who have made it known that they want America to drill for its own oil.

I even emailed the Obama Campaign about this, and I suppose countless other Obama admirers did the same.

Well, guess what? It seems like Obama has already felt the heat and smelled the coffee. He is now modifying his position, saying he is open to offshore drilling, depending on how the plan is structured. Good for this guy, he's not afraid of flip flopping, since changing position on any issue fits right into his template of being the "change candidate".

Because Obama was/is a far left liberal, every flip flop moves him closer to the moderate end of the ideological spectrum. I kind of like that.

You know, something in me told me that Obama would prove to be a real politician by changing his position on this matter, once he was convinced that he was losing the popular support for more drilling.

So after months of singing the anti-drilling song, "We can't drill our way out of this," Barack Obama is about to join a different choir, singing, "We can partly drill our way out of high gas prices."

Instead of being upset with Obama for flipping, I'm actually elated that he's coming around to the American people's side on this all-important issue, while he still has time.

Next, let's watch, listen and see if Mr. Obama actually believes in offshore drilling now and will begin to hammer the point as part of a comprehensive energy solution that will both lower gas prices immediately and reduce America's dependence on foreign oil eventually.

Keep flipping and flopping, Barack Obama, and you might just become President Obama, after all. I'd rather have you do 360s on important issues that you are wrong on than stick to your far-left guns and bite the dust on November 4th.

There are bad flip flops, and there are good flip flops. This was certainly a good one. Is there another on the way, Obama, Sir? I sure hope so...