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UPDATE 9:30: Rick Moran digs a little deeper and gives Margaret Talev props for flushing out the flip flops:
The real devastating part of this piece is when Talev quotes several liberals who acknowledge the flip flops and either try to explain them away or simply accept them as part of Obama's run for the presidency.
From the McClatchy piece, here is what Moran is referring to:
Markos Moulitsas Zuniga, the publisher of the liberal blog Daily Kos, called the wiretap compromise a "really craven flip-flop" meant to immunize Obama against efforts to paint him as weak on national security.
But he defended Obama's withdrawal from public financing as legitimate because Republicans aren't committed to curbing independent attack ad spending.
Dumping Rev. Wright and the church was a flip-flop, he said, but an understandable one given the intense - and one-sided - media coverage of the flap.
Moulitsas admitted that he worries a lot about whether he can count on Obama to stay committed to quick troop withdrawals from Iraq. It's not that Obama has given him any cues to that effect, he said, but rather that, "He's a politician, and things change with politicians, at the end of the day."
