Since when? Even my 3 year old granddaughter was quick to understand the concept of compromise...

Some call it flip flopping, and if it is done purely to snow or pander to a segment of the voters, it's not good...But, if it's done in order to actually get moving on a problem, it is.

Obama is a brilliant man. He understands at the most fundamental level that compromise is the ONLY way to get a country that is as polarized as ours is moving in the right direction.

His compromises are not a matter of character defict...they are evidence that he REALLY does want to be President of the United States, not President of the Democratic Party...

Here is a man who understands that  no one is going to get everything they want, and compromise is needed to get ANYTHING done. We can be hard asses and demand that everything go along with what we want (in which case nothing gets done) OR compromise and start heading in the right direction, then revisit later and get closer to what we want, then revisit later and get closer...you get the point.

I think it is brilliant and just what this country needs...I for one intend to embrace his compromises rather than berate him for them and see how quickly he can get us to where we hope to be as a nation...I believe with all my heart that he is correct in saying that the things that bind us are so much more important than the things that divide us. If we all work together and give a little here and there we can make this country once again the shining example to the world that it used to be.