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Article: CANDIDATES ADVISED TO FLIP-FLOP WITH GRACE.(Focus)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 13, 2008
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Byline: MARGARET CARLSON SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
There are two kinds of people - and candidates - in the world: One says the U.S. troop "surge" is working, therefore we must stay in Iraq. The other says the surge is working, therefore we can leave.
If either John McCain or Barack Obama moves from one category to the other in the slightest, it will be termed a flip-flop and attributed to the darkest of motives. That's too bad because they could both use some much-maligned flexibility.
In the surge-is-forever camp dwells McCain, who says the U.S. will leave Iraq as a conquering hero with a ticker-tape parade down Fifth Avenue, or not at all.
McCain gets angry ...
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