McCain: “I Was For Negotiating With Terrorists Before I Was Against It!”

John McCain has a problem. Well, I’m sure he has more than one problem, but he has one REALLY BIG problem, that being his propensity for flip-flopping his position on key issues as suits his electoral ambitions. Case in point? McCain’s recent attacks directed at Democratic Presidential front runner Barack Obama:

Speaking at a news conference in New Jersey, Mr. McCain said he believed that comments made by a Hamas leader approving Mr. Obama’s candidacy were “a legitimate point of discussion,” and he went on to accuse Mr. Obama of agreeing to negotiate with the president of Iran, who on Wednesday referred to Israel as “a stinking corpse facing annihilation.” He described that as “a distinct difference between myself and Senator Obama.”

Now McCain’s comments should come as no great surprise, given the fact that he’s a Republican running for the White House, so he obviously needs to talk tough on foreign policy in order to keep the Republican base in line. However, what is surprising about McCain’s attacks against those who would agree to negotiate with the president of Iran is that McCain himself seemed to support negotiating with Hamas – itself a terrorist organization – only two years ago:

With all this flip-flopping going on by John McCain, I’m just biding my time until conservatives start attacking him for flip-flopping just as they attacked John Kerry for flip-flopping during the 2004 campaign.