Flipping and Flopping - McCain is hungry

Too hungry.

Even for John McCain, who's changed more positions than he's held to in his desperate hunger for the presidency, the last couple of days have been special.

This is the man who, two years ago, said of Hamas "They're the government; sooner or later we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another, and I understand why this administration and previous administrations had such antipathy towards Hamas because of their dedication to violence and the things that they not only espouse but practice, so . . . but it's a new reality in the Middle East."

Now, of course, he's making out that Obama is "soft on terrorism", as Nixon might have put it, for saying that talking to Hamas makes some sense.

(Note for the record: "talking to" does not equal "supporting" or "surrendering to". Just thought I'd point that out.)

And then there's Iraq. The same man who said we should be in Iraq for fifty or a hundred years now says we'll be out by 2013. (He also says Iraq will be a stable, viable - dare I say Jeffersonian? - democracy by then, all its problems gone.)

I'm starting to wonder if there's anything he really believes. Except that he should be president, of course. He does believe that - enough to say and do anything to make it come true.