Obama Campaigns Against Spending Freezes

Now that newspapers are reporting President Obama will call for a three-year freeze on non-defense, non-entitlement, non-veterans spending, this YouTube video of Candidate Obama repeatedly campaigning against the idea of a spending freeze takes on some new resonance. There's a view out there that Mr. Obama is a rigidly committed leftist, but, if that is so, as we've seen on health care, he sure manages to adjust his stances and stated positions flexibly to the situation at hand. Whether that is praise or criticism will depend on the reader's own view of the world.