After years of hearing lock-step choruses of "flip flop" and "anti-troops," Americans now recognize that such phrases are about as substantive as puffs of steam wafting out of a tea kettle.
And yet, a seemingly serious presidential candidate used both silly phrases just yesterday in response to Hillary Clinton's and Barack Obama's votes against the war-funding bill. According to the Washington Post, Rudy Giuliani argued that Clinton and Obama "flip-flopped," saying "They've gone from an anti-war position to an anti-military, anti-troops position."
Giuliani's advisors should have come up with something else--given that President Bush, himself, just flip flopped on Iraq war strategies?
Fortunately, the Administration's abysmal approval ratings suggest that the public may have built up immunity to the say-it-enough-times-and-they'll-believe-it tactic.
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