Here's an idea. Now that the "McCain lies" meme has been accepted by even traditional media, can someone here with the technical knowledge please start a website called McCain Lies? It wouldn't have to be too fancy - in fact it should be very simple: just two columns - one called Lie and the other, Truth, with McCain quotes on one side and, well, you get the idea...

We could also have a second section for McCain Flip Flops. With one column called Flip and the other Flop (with extra columns when necessary for Double and Triple Flips). Again, pretty self-explanatory

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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/070 8/11880_Page2.html
Great article rejecting the "Flip Flop" / "Race to the Center" smear on Obama
by the chief speechwriter and deputy policy director for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign:

"Throughout the left-wing blogosphere, the cry has come: Barack Obama is moving away from them, and to the center. "Moving to the middle is for losers," cried the politically ambidextrous Arianna Huffington. He's "betraying his claims of being a new kind of politician," declared Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos.

But all this outrage ignores the obvious: Throughout his career, Obama has consistently framed himself as a post-partisan centrist. He's been a bridge-builder all his life, first between black and white, and now between left and right.

It's a formula for victory in a country that's essentially center-right. Even after all the alienation from the Bush administration, a new Washington Post/ABC poll affirms that only 19 percent of Americans describe themselves as liberal, while 43 percent say moderate and 35 percent, conservative.
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Cross posted at The Left Anchor.

The following post is cannibalized from a comment I made at TPZoo.  It seems to me that some Obama supporters might be going a bit overboard with their declarations that Obama has made "massive" shifts to the center (I feel his biggest shifts are on FISA and NAFTA, the second of which doesn't surprise me, and the first of which would probably pass no matter what he did).  As for foreign policy, here is my take on Obama's Iraq position:

There are two basic elements to military action: strategy and tactics. Strategy is the long term plan aimed at achieving a given goal. Obama has very clearly stated that his strategy is to remove troops at roughly two brigades per month until all troops are out. This will achieve the goal of removing us from the Iraq quagmire. What is important to note here is that specific tactics for achieving this strategy do not fall under Obama's domain. He doesn't have the military training to be making those decisions. Presidents in general don't make those types of low-level decisions. That would be micromanaging, which is just generally a poor way to run things.

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On Tuesday, John McCain announced that a pillar of his energy plan is to lift the ban on offshore drilling.

Sen. John McCain on Tuesday proposed lifting the ban on offshore drilling as part of his plan to reduce dependence on foreign oil and help combat rising gas prices. Sen. John McCain says it's time for the federal government "to put our own reserves to use."

"The stakes are high for our citizens and for our economy," McCain, the presumed Republican nominee for president, said at a press conference Tuesday in Houston, Texas.

This announcement represents a shift in policy of just about 180 degrees from his prior position, a flip flop that did not go unnoticed by Barack Obama.

"John McCain's support of the moratorium on offshore drilling during his first presidential campaign was certainly laudable, but his decision to completely change his position and tell a group of Houston oil executives exactly what they wanted to hear today was the same Washington politics that has prevented us from achieving energy independence for decades," he said."It's another example of short-term political posturing from Washington, not the long-term leadership we need to solve our dependence on oil," he said.

Hell, even CNN called McCain out. Check out this piece from The Situation Room that frames McCain's entire energy policy as one big flip flop after another.

As Dana Bash says:

"What really came across in John McCain's speech [on energy] is how challenging it is for him to find his way...what you get are some contradictions."

Seriously, it makes you wonder if McCain is losing his base. Watch it:

Of course, one key point CNN misses is just how tied to big oil John McCain actually is. Brave New Films has a great new video in their Real McCain series that reveals exactly what big oil's $1 million+ worth of donations they've made to McCain has gotten them in return: his refusal to require oil companies to use their profits to invest in alternative energy.

But I think my favorite part about McCain's blatant pandering yesterday was that despite his ongoing efforts to distance himself from Bush, McCain just can't seem to catch a break. Guess what Mr. 28% is going to be doing today:

Hours [after McCain's speech], White House Press Secretary Dana Perino said President Bush on Wednesday will ask Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling.

Hilarious.

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i can't believe the gaul behind this guy. All that time he spent talking about lobbyists being bad and then he has the stones to name a lobbyists as his NATIONAL  co chair

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