“Some of the Republican charges of (Obama’s) flip-flopping are misplaced. Last month, Obama drew fire for denouncing a Supreme Court decision barring the death penalty for child rapists. Yet in his 2006 book, “The Audacity of Hope,” he wrote that capital punishment “is justified” for crimes such as “mass murder” or “the rape and murder of a child.””
Kristen Jensen
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=asZwMDvYWOPQ&refer=worldwide
This article deals with how Obama is doing what all Presidential candidates do in a general election and that is run to the middle. It details how it is difficult for Obama to do that given his consistently liberal (Marxist) voting record.
Now what is interesting about the quote above is that apparently Republicans are bashing Obama for flip-flopping when he denounced the recent SCOTUS decision mentioned in the quote. The article then suggests that he has consistently held that capital punishment is justified for the child rapists. But if you look at what is quoted above from Obama it is not support for capital punishment for child rapists that he mentions in his book but support for capital punishment for those who rape and murder a child. The charge of flip-flopping on this issue is thus not displaced.
Apparently what we have here is a public schooled liberal reporter who hasn’t yet learned the importance of conjunctions.
