It's taken over five years but John F Kerry has been replaced as the best known flip flopper. Enter, Barack Hussein Obama.

In his first year our president has shown himself to be slow to speak(and also quite weak when tardy)when the situation calls for atleast verbal action. But, when the situation does not demand or require a public statement(atleast not immediately), there he is commenting on that which he does not know.

Back in July of 2009 Professor Henry Gates(a black American) was arrested by Cambridge police who were responding to a 911 call regarding possible intruders. The arresting officers, only acting on the 911 call and the situation upon their arrival asked Prof. Gates to comply with police protocol Granted, the good professor was only trying to get into his own house for which he had forgotten his key to unlock his front door. But he resisted the officers while berating them as racists. Before hearing the whole story(by his own admission) Obama proceeded to proclaim the Cambridge officers actions as stupid. Race to the microphone, comment on what you do not know. Not a danger to national security, but a blow to race relations in present day America.
Just this past Christmas of 2009, a radical Muslim from Nigeria tried to blow up a Northwest Airline plane. But, thank God his exploding undies malfunctioned. Now this scenario contains both elements of Obama's bad timing and poor choice of words. It took 4 days for him to comment and when he did, he said that the terrorist acted alone and that it was an isolated incident. In the interim his head of the FSA, Janet Napolitano went through her own verbal gymnastics, flipflopping like a fresh caught fish on the deck of a boat. But, back to the Commander in Chief... Turns out less than a week later it wasn't so isolated an incident and that our president is now saying that it was the act of an Al qaeda type.

Now some will say that we are all human or everybody makes mistakes. Granted. But these are big and bigger mistakes. Signs of indescretion and incompetence. For most of us, if we make many small or a few big mistakes, we are out of a job. Out of a relationship. Lose our drivers license. Accrue a bad credit report. That's how the real world works. Most conservatives understand this. Most liberals make excuses and employ moral relativism. In my perfect world, my president would understand that the men and women in blue are the thin line between order and chaos in our communities. And in my perfect world, my president would walk stridently(wearing a tie) to the microphone and say as eloquently as possible that we are going to kick the collective butts of all who dare plot and/or attempt to attack the United States of America and it's peoples. I guess it's one thing us freedom loving citizens of America have in common with the Islamic terrorists. We both respect strength. So until 2012, instead of a steel toe boot, we are stuck with a flip flop.