What Is This World Coming To?

Candidate Obama ridiculed John McCain in October for proposing the imposition of a tax on existing health benefits.

President Obama proposed during his free, unopposed ABC infomercial that he will have to tax existing health care benefits in order to pay for health care reform, but only the really expensive “Cadillac” plans — like the health care plans negotiated by the big unions.

Is this a flip-flop? When circumstances and reality forced George Bush to renege on a campaign promise it was. But this is Obama! Here’s how the liberal media frames an Obama flip-flop:

“It was the latest in a series of signs of presidential flexibility.”

Candidate Obama insisted that he would meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions.   Then Ahmadinejad stole the election and the ensuing public uprising threatened to bring down his regime.

This was the perfect opportunity to support the demonstrations and overthrow the most malignant regime on the face of the earth today.   But Obama promised he would meet with Ahmadinejad without preconditions so he did NOTHING for eleven days before finally issuing a somewhat tepid ‘condemnation’ as the Iranian uprising begins to fizzle.

Is it a case of too little, too late that failed to capitalize on a golden opportunity?   Or is it,  as CNN sees it, another example of presidential flexibility?.

But President Obama is nothing but a realist. In taking a cautious approach to the crisis, he is also maintaining flexibility to preserve his stated policy of engaging with Iran, in particular the prospect of direct negotiations with Tehran over its nuclear program.

That Obama!  What a guy!

“And they worshipped the dragon which gave power unto the beast: and they worshipped the beast, saying, Who is like unto the beast? who is able to make war with him?” Revelation 13:4