This might be construed as flip flop #2. From The Line is Here (love their parodic commentary):
Jooooooe Biiiiiiiden, (D), currently running for the office of Vice-President of the United States.
Announcer one: “Well Ted, I gotta say, I have been watching this game for a long time and I don’t think that I have ever seen this kind of speed by a candidate. The way he literally changed his public position overnight must be some kind of record!”
Announcer two: “Right you are, Kenny. Most candidates take advantage of a cooling off period in hopes that the video of their past statements could be lost, misquoted, or even nuanced out of public view. But not this guy, no sir. He has the guts to stand up and lie to the face of one group of people one night and then lie to the media about what he said the very next morning. You gotta be impressed with that kind of dedication.”
A1: “You said it, Ted. It reminds me of the time Barry Obama tried to sweet talk the voters in the East and then turned around and called them a bunch of religious zealot gun nuts in San Francisco.”
A2: “Really, Ken, you have to admire this whole campaign team. It’s not just any team that can go from publicly flogging their own country to a seven year old girl at a rally to setting up a Greek temple and saying ‘Yes we can’ without any hint of self-awareness showing.”
A1: “But this particular event takes the cake, Ted. I mean telling a campaign rally full of cameras that you and your running mate are planning on prosecuting the current administration if you get elected, kinda of like they used to do under the old Communist regime of the Soviet Union…”
A2: “Funny story about old communists, Ken…”
A1: “Hold that thought, Ted. Planning on prosecuting the current regime when you take office and THEN turning right around and saying you had no such plans on a national cable news show is just a brilliant display of showmanship. That is the kind of thing you might expect someone to say if they were talking about nationalizing oil companies or something.”
What are these guys talking about? Let's go to the Guardian UK:
Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden said earlier this week that he and running mate Barack Obama could pursue criminal charges against the Bush administration if they are elected in November.
Biden's comments, first reported by ABC news, attracted little notice on a day dominated by the drama surrounding his Republican counterpart, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.
But his statements represent the Democrats' strongest vow so far this year to investigate alleged misdeeds committed during the Bush years.
When asked during a campaign event in Deerfield Beach, Florida, whether he would "pursue the violations that have been made against our Constitution by the present administration", Biden answered in the affirmative.
"We will not be stopped from pursuing any criminal offence that's occurred," he continued, going on to praise congressional committees for the deliberate pace of their inquiries into alleged Bush administration misdeeds.
Members of Congress are "doing the right thing, they're not making false accusations about anything … they're collecting data, subpoenaing records, they're building a file", Biden said.
"If there has been a basis upon which you can pursue someone for a criminal violation, they will be pursued – not out of vengeance, not out of retribution, out of the need to preserve the notion that no one, no attorney general, no president -- no one is above the law."
Obama sounded a similar note in April, vowing that if elected, he would ask his attorney general to initiate a prompt review of Bush-era actions to distinguish between possible "genuine crimes" and "really bad
Sounds to me like Slow Joe wants to do retroactive impeachment, or to appeal to the moron.org crowd...but wait, no he never said that, even though it is on the record, for just a day or so later he says he has no such plans.
Is this some type of congential defect on the part of Libs?
