{"id":16277,"date":"2012-10-25T23:01:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=16277"},"modified":"2012-10-25T23:01:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T03:01:48","slug":"strassel-long-list-of-obama%e2%80%99s-flip-flops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/16277\/strassel-long-list-of-obama%e2%80%99s-flip-flops\/","title":{"rendered":"Strassel: Long List of Obama\u2019s Flip-Flops"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kimberley Strassel<\/a> of the Wall Street Journal provides a terrific service with an entire column filled with Barack Obama\u2019s bald-faced flip-flops.<\/p>\n

A sampling:<\/p>\n

“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program”\u2014Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, June 2003.<\/p>\n

“I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter”\u2014President Obama, August 2009.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Leadership means that the buck stops here. . . . I therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase America’s debt limit”\u2014Sen. Barack Obama, March 2006.<\/p>\n

“It is not acceptable for us not to raise the debt ceiling and to allow the U.S. government to default”\u2014President Obama, July 2011.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

“We have an idea for the trigger. . . . Sequestration”\u2014Obama Office of Management and Budget Director Jack Lew in 2011, as reported in Bob Woodward’s “The Price of Politics.”<\/p>\n

“First of all, the sequester is not something that I’ve proposed. It is something that Congress has proposed”\u2014President Obama, October 2012.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

“Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times when America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive”\u2014President Obama, April 2009, in France.<\/p>\n

“We have at times been disengaged, and at times we sought to dictate our terms”\u2014President Obama, April 2009, in Trinidad and Tobago.<\/p>\n

“Nothing Governor Romney just said is true, starting with this notion of me apologizing”\u2014Barack Obama, October 2012, on whether he went on a global apology tour.<\/p>\n

\u2026<\/p>\n

“If I don’t have this done in three years, then there’s going to be a one-term proposition”\u2014President Obama, 2009.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got a long way to go but . . . we’ve come too far to turn back now. . . . And that’s why I’m running for a second term”\u2014President Obama, October 2012.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read it all here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kimberley Strassel of the Wall Street Journal provides a terrific service with an entire column filled with Barack Obama\u2019s bald-faced flip-flops. A sampling: “I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care program”\u2014Illinois state Sen. Barack Obama, June 2003. “I have not said that I was a single-payer supporter”\u2014President Obama, August 2009. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,143,1398],"class_list":["post-16277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-barack-obama","tag-flip-flop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16283,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions\/16283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}