Obama is running out of feet to shoot.

Now that Obama has safely secured his spot on the ballot in November, he can tell us what he "really meant" on issues that got him the primary win in the first place.

Call it what you may, but it is flagrant pandering for votes from so-called conservatives, fence-sitting independents, evangelists and every group he speaks with .  The chamelion has come out of the closet and is changing colors faster than we can change the backdrop.

Since he has become the presumptive nominee he has backtracked on all of the issues that got him there in the first place, including:

-- Ending the war on the American Public's timetable and not the military-industrial-political timetable.

-- Voting No on FISA in February and voting Yes in June.

-- He wants to continue and expand Bush's unconstitutional Faith-Based Innitiative with even MORE of our tax money.  (Remember that pesky little piece of paper that we used to call the Constitution which forbids government sanction or support of ANY religion?)

-- He now supports the death penalty for 'some' non-lethal crimes.

-- He supports the Second Amendment but with even greater zeal supports the government's right to restrict  and regulate it (e.g., BB guns will be legal as long as the barrel is at least 48 inches long, they must be painted pink, and you must pay a tax for that right).

The list goes on...

Obama was the only hope we had to avoid a third Bush term.  Now it looks like we'll have a third Bush term no matter who gets elected.  Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi's inept Congress have chosen to 'compromise' on issues where there can be no compromise...the Law and our Constitution are examples.  So there will be no 'Change'.  'Change' has become an empty campaign slogan that gives hope where none exists.  In 2006 we were offered 'change' and we voted for it but it has yet to materialize nor is there any hint of 'change' on the horizon.

'Change' is 2008's mis-used word of the year and should be purged from the politician's lexicon.  (For that matter we're all tired of 'off the table' and 'on the table'.  Impeachment and War are not table settings.)

In his ruinous bid to capture a handful of special interest votes, Obama has lost many votes and a lot of respect from his base during the last two weeks alone.  Every single day there is news of him moving to the right on an issue.  His polling numbers against McCain are already dropping from two weeks ago.  Moving to the right in an already far-right administration (and arguably, Congress) is not a winning strategy, especially when polls clearly show that our President and our Congress have the lowest approval ratings in polling history.  His campaign manager should be fired when he reports for work on Monday.  Had Obama stayed on track he would have enjoyed non-partisan support from many camps and would have won the election in November handily despite the rampant vote fraud we've come to love and expect.  If he loses the election, he can look back to what he said in June '08 for the reasons why.  The GOP is going to pounce on these perceived flip-flops like Karl Rove on a cheeseburger.  When will the Democrats ever learn?

The Audacity of Hope has become just that...audacity.