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Politics : John McCain for President -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (5145)	10/28/2008 8:44:27 AM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6579

Some people take solace from the fact Mr. Obama has verbally shifted position on some issues, like drilling for oil or gun control, since this is supposed to show he is "pragmatic" rather than ideological. But political zigzags show no such moderation as some seem to assume. V.I. Lenin zig-zagged and so did Adolf Hitler. Zigzags may show no more than that someone is playing the public for fools. Some people who see the fraud in what Mr. Obama says are amazed that others do not. But Mr. Obama knows what con men have long known: Their job is not to convince skeptics but to enable the gullible to continue to believe what they want to believe. He does that very well. Thomas Sowell is a nationally syndicated columnist.