OBAMA FLIP FLOPS ON MANY THINGS, INCLUDING NEGATIVE CAMPAIGNING

Democrat Barack Obama raised $22 million in May for his presidential campaign, his weakest fundraising month this year, and ended the month with $43 million cash on hand. McCain raised $21 million in May and ended the month with $31.6 million in the bank. Of Obama's cash on hand, $10 million is available only for the general election, leaving him with about $33 million to use between now and the party conventions in late summer. Obama reported debts of $304,000; McCain had debts of $1.3 million.

What's this, Obama and McCain in a virtual fundraising tie during the month of May? Has the golden boy lost his tarnish?

One reason is his flip-flops on policy issues, but mostly it is a flip flop on running a progressively increasingly negative campaign, something he refused to do against Hillary Clinton, and the voters loved him for it.

Against McCain, he has taken a proactive negative stance firing numerous unprovoked shots across the bow of the U.S.S. McCain. Witness Obama's latest attack.....Speaking to the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate praised McCain's service to the country, but chastised him for not "proposing a strategy for American cities" hit hard by tough economic times.

"Because while Sen. McCain is a true patriot … he won't be that partner,” Obama said. “His priorities are very different from yours and mine … he isn't proposing a strategy for America's cities. Instead, he's calling for nearly $2 trillion in tax breaks for big corporations and the wealthiest Americans."Obama also discussed McCain's trip to Iowa this week to see firsthand the effects of devastating flooding.

"Both Sen. McCain and I have traveled recently to the areas that have been devastated by floods. And I know that Sen. McCain felt as strongly as I did, feeling enormous sympathy for the victims of the recent flooding … And I'm sure they appreciated the sentiment, but they probably would have appreciated it even more if Sen. McCain hadn't opposed legislation to fund levees and flood control programs, which he considers pork."

And this shot....."When I hear McCain say that he is now in favor of the same oil drilling off the coast that he was opposed to just a week ago, what he doesn't tell you is that George Bush's own energy department has said that this would have no impact on consumers until 2030," he said, "no appreciable impact for the next 22 years. Something they're not telling consumers."

Meanwhile, a new CNN "poll of polls" released Friday evening shows Obama leading McCain by 6 percentage points, 46 percent to 40 percent. Obama, previously polling higher against McCain, might have just hit his Democratic stride, and is now prepared to do what modern day liberals have been doing for quite some time now...figuring out a way to grasp defeat from the jaws of victory. Fight the issues, Senator, not John McCain. be more positive, and for gawd sakes, stop saying his name so much (a cardinal sin in politics--keeping his opponents name out there in the minds of the voters).