From the (e)Mailbag...

"It is trite but apparently necessary to emphasize the obvious point that "CHANGE" is only good if it is change for the better. In that respect, it may be useful to list the changes Barack Obama has already made w/o even being president:

He has CHANGED from firmly opposing off-shore drilling to accepting it,given the unpopularity of his opposition;

He has CHANGED from vehemently opposing FISA to voting for it;

He has CHANGED from publicly opposing NAFTA to having his staff secretly reassure other nations that he doesn’t mean that. [Query: is it unfair to count his publicly lying while secretly disavowing his statements as a CHANGE?]

He has CHANGED from pledging himself to participate in the public campaign financing system to reneging, given that keeping his pledge would be politically disadvantageous;

He has CHANGED from extolling the public campaign financing system to denouncing it, given his reneging on his now politically disadvantageous pledge to participate in it;

He has CHANGED from denouncing the surge and voting against it to admitting it has worked – albeit alleging that everyone else (i.e., all his buddies) also wrongly believed it would fail;

He has CHANGED from his long time support for handgun prohibition and other extreme gun control to claiming to be a believer in the Second Amendment;

He has CHANGED from supporting Washington, D.C.’s extreme gun bans(handgun prohibition plus prohibition of keeping any firearm loaded to defend your home) to hailing the S Ct decision invalidating those bans;

He has CHANGED from being a long time friend and political ally of terrorist Wm. Ayers to disavowing him – in a vain attempt to deflect the slogan "years of buddying up to terrorists doesn’t constitute experience;"

He has CHANGED from saying he could no more disavow Rev. Wright than he could disavow black America to disavowing Rev. Wright and leaving his church;

He has CHANGED from deriding flag pins as phony patriotism to wearing them everywhere."

Change you can believe in. For a minute and a half.

The Gunslinger