What has Obama pandered?

Changing of views for political expediency is the key to the definition of the word pander.

>You say pandering, I say it's ok to change positions based on changing times and environments.

Yes and theres no better time for more tax cuts than when the dollar is sinking, foreign investors are refusing to buy more long term debt from the treasury, and Uncle Sam is swimming in red ink.

BTW you interested in buying a slightly used bridge in Minneapolis? its a steal.

<<You say pandering, I say it's ok to change positions based on changing times and environments.

And what exactly changed from when he voted to now? He voted against it because it did not give enough relief to working Americans who are struggling and because of the lack of restraint in spending. The govt. still has not restrained spending, and the working class are hurting even more....... Here is the video to prove it. www.youtube.com/watch

The only change is that the economy is in a shambles, Bush's tax cuts are a failure.... So what changed that now makes the tax cuts a good idea? Please be specific.

<<The fact that he voted twice for unconditional funding and against against an amendment by Feingold and Kerry for an Iraq timetable. It was only after Obama formed his presidential exploratory committee, that he introduced legislation setting a date for troop withdrawal.

Obama has been consistent from the beginning, he came out against the Iraq war when he was still in the US senate. There is a distinct difference between being against the US govt. policy of waging war in Iraq and providing funding to ensure that US troops have body armor so that they come home safe. One CAN be against the war and support the troops at the same time and it is not pandering.

<<His speech about racism, when he has made race based decisions in the past.

What race based decision did he make in the past? You do understand that a race based decision is not the same as racism don't you?

<<The whole Oprah thing smelled like pandering to blacks and women.

Wrong, you are using the term Pander incorrectly here. Look at the wikipedia definition.

<<He promised to repeal the Patriot Act - more pandering to anti-Bush crowd. - Then voted in favor of it later.

That is actually incorrect. Obama has has Consistently said he would support a patriot act that would strengthen civil liberties without sacrificing the tools that law enforcement needs to keep us safe. You have to understand that the way legislation works is that there are multiple versions that are debated, being against one version does not mean you are going to vote against the final version. What he voted for was NOT what the white house originally proposed. And that is why he joined the fillibuster to block Bush's version.

<<Supported single payer health care and is now against it.

Obama has consistently said that If we were starting from scratch, he would support a single payer system, but now we need to build on the system we have.
www.newyorker.com/reporting...cfarquhar/

<<I stand corrected, but will change my statement to "the one who panders the least".

but you are only saying that because he is your candidate, not because you have done an in depth analysis of how much each person is pandering.