In February while in South Dakota, Tom Daschle made this comment regarding Iraq:
Daschle told state chamber of commerce representatives meeting in the South Dakota capital that he is satisfied with the way things are going in Iraq."I give the effort overall real credit," Daschle said. "It is a good thing Saddam Hussein is no longer in power. It is a good thing we are democratizing the country."
Robert Moran wrote a National Review Online column that argued Daschle's comments were a reversal of his position due to the fact he was speaking to conservative South Dakotans. A month later Daschle reversed back and made this statement on the Senate floor:
At a minimum, the Administration's missteps in Iraq have greatly complicated the answer to this question, and attacking Iraq, at least in the short to medium term, may have made Americans less secure not more against terrorist threat.The American people need to know whether attacking Iraq has helped our efforts against Al Qaeda and made them more secure.
These are the critical questions currently confronting this Administration.
This statement was meant to satisfy the far-left liberals he represents in Washington. As mentioned by DVT and by myself, Daschle comes back to South Dakota and portrays himself as a moderate. Too much of the South Dakota media allows him to get away with this…for 26 years.
Some have considered Daschle to be a snake (inside and outside South Dakota), but there is another reptile that characterizes Daschle. Like a chameleon, Daschle has changed his stripes, depending on his surroundings. This may have allowed him to stay in office for 26 years and become a national leader of the Democrats. But this in no way makes him a true leader that represents the majority of South Dakotans. Too many in South Dakota don’t know this truth, and the South Dakota media is at the heart of the cause.
John Kerry is not the only Democrat that flip-flops.
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