Subject: [big campaign] McCain's 42 flip flops
From: "Adam Jentleson (CAPAF)" <[email-masked]>
To: "big campaign" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:10:41 -0400
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On "The View" today, McCain challenged Joy Behar to name an issue he's
flip-flopped on.  ThinkProgress found 42.  

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/mccain-issues-a-challenge/

McCain Issues A Challenge: 'Nobody Can Name' An Issue I Have
Flip-Flopped On
<http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/12/mccain-issues-a-challenge/> 

On ABC's The View today, host Joy Behar complained to John McCain that
"you used to be more of the Maverick, then you sort of turned." "In what
way?" McCain asked. "You became much more lockstep, I think, with your
party, with George Bush's policies," Behar answered, adding, "I don't
see the old John McCain. ... I understand why - you want to get
elected." McCain issued this challenge in his defense:

	I've been through this litany before, where I say, "ok, what
specific area have I quote changed?" Nobody can name it. ... I am the
same person and I have the same principles.

McCain argued that on issues - "whether it be spending, whether it be
climate change, whether it be the conduct of the war in Iraq, whether it
be torture of prisoners" - he is "the same guy." Watch it:

ThinkProgress has gladly taken up
<http://thinkprogress.org/mccain-flip-flops/>  the McCain challenge.
We've compiled a document <http://thinkprogress.org/mccain-flip-flops/>
that lists the policy areas on which McCain has changed his position.

The flip-flop document <http://thinkprogress.org/mccain-flip-flops/>
notes that McCain has changed his position even on the four areas he
cited - spending, climate change, the war in Iraq, and torture of
prisoners: 

	SPENDING: The McCain campaign has said that it will balance the
budget by the end of McCain's first time. But chief economic adviser
Douglas Holtz-Eakin said McCain would balance the budget by the end of
his second term.

	CLIMATE CHANGE: In 1999, McCain opposed lifting the ban on
offshore drilling, saying that it was just the "special interests in
Washington" that advocated it. In 2008, McCain announced that "there are
areas off our coasts that should be open to exploration and
exploitation."

	IRAQ CONDUCT: He said in 2004 that Donald Rumsfeld was doing "a
fine job" and was "an honorable man." But by 2008, McCain was arguing
that he was "the only one that said Rumsfeld had to go."

	TORTURE: In 2005, McCain pushed President Bush to sign a bill
that would prohibit "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment" of anyone in U.S. government custody. But in 2008, McCain
voted against the Intelligence Authorization Bill, which requires the
intelligence community to abide by the same standards as articulated in
the Army Field Manual and bans waterboarding.

See our full document here <http://thinkprogress.org/mccain-flip-flops/>
. Steve Benen has compiled another flip-flop list here
<http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/flipflops> .

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