Flip Flopper In Chief

This flip flop business is getting tiresome.... Well if John Kerry is a flip-flopper*, he has company:

• In 2000, Bush argued against new military entanglements and nation building. He's done both in Iraq.

• He opposed a Homeland Security Department, then embraced it.

• He opposed creation of an independent Sept. 11 commission, then supported it. He first refused to speak to its members, then agreed only if Vice President Dick Cheney came with him.

• Bush argued for free trade, then imposed three-year tariffs on steel imports in 2002, only to withdraw them after 21 months.

• Last month, he said he doubted the war on terror could be won, then reversed himself to say it could and would.

• A week after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, Bush said he wanted Osama bin Laden "dead or alive." But he told reporters six months later, "I truly am not that concerned about him." He did not mention bin Laden in his hour-long convention acceptance speech.

USATODAY.com - Both candidates often shift positions

* As a side note, if anyone were to read the statements made by Kerry when the vote on the war was made, they are in fact consistent with his statements made all along.