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...According to Istie, they moved often and Dulmatin spent months away, but he would always stay in touch, texting and calling her via cell phone. She told police she knew nothing of any terrorist activities. In late 2005, she was warned to flee ahead of a military operation. Taking the children, she headed southeast to Jolo, where she was arrested...
...fair, Obama is not alone in his calculated repositioning. McCain, the Republican presumptive nominee, has been going through a similar process, struggling to reclaim his maverick mantle after he spent much of the primaries proving his conservative credentials by flip-flopping his positions on tax cuts and immigration...
...moderate and independent swing voters in the general election. Richard Nixon practically perfected the transformation in 1968, initially building his "silent majority" of conservatives freaked out by hippie war protesters and inner-city riots before selling his "secret plan" to end the Vietnam War in the fall. But having spent the last 16 months pledging to be "the change you can believe in," Obama faces an especially delicate balancing act in playing to the center. Currently Obama trails John McCain among independents not leaning toward either party by a margin of 26% to 35%, according to a June...
...Obama's risky metamorphosis began before he'd even locked up the nomination. On April 29 he denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom he once said he could "no more disown than I [could] my white grandmother," after Wright spent a week making even more inflammatory statements to the press than he'd made from the pulpit. And on May 30 - the same day that the DNC's Rules and Bylaws Committee effectively sealed the nomination for Obama - the Illinois Senator quietly resigned from the church he'd been a member of for more than 20 years...
Obama or McCain? McCain has more history [with Vietnam] but Obama spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. Who would you prefer as U.S. President...