Big Brother for President!

I don't call Barrack Obama a flip-flopper. It is fashionable now to attack a candidate as a flip-flopper if it can be shown that he has changed his position over time. It is however entirely reasonable to change one's opinion as time passes and situations change. What is not reasonable or acceptable is to lie about one's positions, to pretend that they were right when it is documented that they were wrong. Here is a quote from Obama, made at the start of the surge:

"I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraq is going to solve the sectarian violence there," the Illinois senator said that night, a month before announcing his presidential bid. "In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

Very clearly he was opposed to the surge, he voted against it, he predicted it would make matters worse. Now here is a more recent quote:

  "Now, I had no doubt -- and I said at the time, when I opposed the surge, that given how wonderfully our troops perform, if we place 30,000 more troops in there, then we would see an improvement in the security situation and we would see a reduction in the violence."

Notice he now claims to have known all along the surge would reduce violence, yet he voted against it. Was he opposed to reducing the violence? Why did he then predict publicly that it would make things worse if he knew it would work? He claims to have said at the time that it would improve the security situation there, yet publicly he said the opposite. This is not a case of flip-flopping, it is a case of lying. As evidence mounts that the situation has improved dramatically, Obama wants to rewrite history, to unsay the things he said. This is why his team is scrubbing his web site to correct the past. Unfortunately for them this is not Oceania, Obama is not big brother, and we know the truth.