all i have to say is...

[Melwin]

Originally Posted by John Kerry in the First Presidential Debate

No president, though all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America.

But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you‘re doing what you‘re doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons.

I'm confused. That's not a flipflop.

He's saying that while he reserves the right to preemptively attack a nation in defense of the US, he's probably not going to do it without international backing. :eng:

Edit: Yeah, I get the vibe that a lot of this flipflop rumoring comes from people who buy into Rupert Murdoch's propaganda and then start actively interpreting things as flipflopping.