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Clinton accuses Obama of flip-flopping


Well, I saw this coming 20 minutes ago, and here it is from the Clinton campaign.


Tonight, Sen. Obama said he would not normalize relations with Cuba until the country started making some progress. Here's the exchange with Campbell Brown:


OBAMA: … But I would not normalize relations until we started seeing some of the progress that Senator Clinton is talking about.


BROWN: But that's different from your position, back in 2003, you called us policy towards Cuba a miserable failure and you supported normalizing relations. So you backtracked now.


BUT in 2004, Sen. Obama was saying something different:

VIDEO: Sen. Obama on Cuban Embargo 2004


In a 2004 questionnaire, Sen. Obama supported normalization of relations with Cuba: Q: "Do you support normalization of relations with Cuba?" Obama: "Our longstanding policies toward Cuba have been a miserable failure, evidenced by the fact that Fidel Castro is now the longest-serving head of state in the world. If our isolationist policies were meant to weaken him, they certainly haven’t worked. I believe that normalization of relations with Cuba would help the oppressed and poverty-stricken Cuban people while setting the stage for a more democratic government once Castro inevitably leaves the scene." [IVI-IPO 2004 US SENATE QUESTIONNAIRE, 1/5/04]

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