Stephanie, your article about flip-flopping or changing one's mind is a useful, perceptive piece. That Obama continues to flip-flop and/or change his mind simply underscores his lack of experience to do the job is trying to do.
Obama has seen the light, because it was flashed in his face. He has found out that many of the Bush policies were correct, and now he has no choice but to follow them.
His dithering on issues like trying KSM in the military tribunals just makes it clear how he really doesn't know what he's doing. As he bashed Bush while campaigning, people thought Obama sounded so different and so much more intelligent, that Obama would correct all those mistakes made by the dull-witted Bush. Once in office Obama finds out that his adolescent views do not quite work in the adult world.
It is really quite astonishing that Obama thinks he has the ability to continue to president, much less the temerity to think he should be elected again.