Barack Obama: I Did Not Flip Flop

July 8. 2008

Barack Obama

Democratic nominee for president Barack Obama is decrying claims he “flip flops.” Yesterday I quoted a widely read BBC article listing incidents of both candidates flip flopping.

Obama Tells Voters His Views Have Not Changed

Obama, egged on by a raucous audience, said he would like to address "this whole notion that I am shifting to the center, or that I am flip-flopping."

"The people who say this apparently haven't been listening to me," Obama said. "And I have to say, some of them are my friends on the left and some of the media, I am somebody who is no doubt progressive."

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