The Corner

by Walter Alarkon - 09/12/08 9:20 AM ET

Barack Obama’s campaign talks about his position on welfare reform as evidence of his commitment to change, but Obama himself said recently that he was on the wrong side of welfare reform in the 1990s when he opposed measures championed by the Clinton administration, writes Byron York. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) was right to ask ABC News’s Charlie Gibson to clarify his question about the “Bush Doctrine,” since even prominent conservative thinkers don’t agree on whether it represents a policy of preemption or democracy promotion, writes Andy McCarthy.

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