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Night and Day, “Obama’s commissions” edition

The One in April:

Among the presidential campaigners, Sen. Barack Obama, speaking at New York’s Cooper Union late last month, blamed corporate lobbyists for carrying deregulation too far and he pledged regulatory reform, but nothing more specific than the creation of a financial oversight commission.

The One yesterday:

Today, Senator Obama said: “Senator McCain offered up the oldest Washington stunt in the book: you pass the buck to a commission to study the problem. But here’s the thing: this isn’t 9-11. We know how we got into this mess. What we need now is leadership that gets us out.” 

That Wall Street Commission was such a good idea that even John McCain decided to embrace the idea…at which point, the idea stopped being a good one.  But hey, this Obama guy is gonna be the “uniter” and “reach across the aisle” for “bipartisan” efforts to find real solutions, right?

As Beckwith notes:

Perhaps the person who ghost writes his teleprompter can first do a Google search on the senator’s behalf to see whether he had opined on prior occasions on the matter of commissions. It took me about 40 minutes to track all these down.

For a campaign that seems to get awfully giddy at McCain’s lack of Internet experience, they sure do have a way of getting their tails kicked by Google searches, huh?

September 18, 2008 - Posted by crushliberalism | hypocrisy, McCain, Night and Day, Obama