Welfare Reform: Change Obama Couldn't Believe In - And Now Does!

"Obama shifts on welfare reform" from Political Radar reports that Barack Obama once again has pivoted to the right - this time on welfare reform which he once didn't support - and now champions.  Change he couldn't believe in back in 1996!

"I am not a defender of the status quo with respect to welfare," Obama said on the floor of the Illinois state Senate on May 31, 1997. "Having said that, I probably would not have supported the federal legislation, because I think it had some problems."

Obama's transformation from critic to champion of welfare reform is the latest in a series of moves to the center. Since capturing the Democratic nomination, the Obama campaign has altered its stances on Social Security taxes, meeting with rogue leaders without preconditions, and the constitutionality of Washington, D.C.'s, sweeping gun ban.