I'm not keen on politicians who roll over. They are in the right place, have enough staff and resources that they should get it right the first time around, before they venture their opinions to the electorate.
Rolling over, in my opinion is a good sign of having opened their mouth before checking the facts. That's not what their electors pay them film star wages for.
Good point actually. But then again, we may be over estimating their ability to get accurate information quickly.
If they do change their mind, they better have a reason good enough to hold a press conference about the new developments.
Mmarsh, I have a feeling that politics is dirtier than whoring. And as for re-writing history... everyone tries it with varying degrees of success. I believe that goes with all parties. Don't know about America but over here it was actually the leftist government who tried to re-write it. There was a TV series about President Park Jung-hee and his group of people who built the country into what it is today but the government banned it because it made them look bad. After all, it was him they were demonstrating against. Even tried to change the part about how the North Koreans started the Korean War. Tried to exaggerrate American atrocities during the Korean War while marginalizing North Korean atrocities (way, WAY worse).
The right wing were guilty of trying to downplay the level of collaborators South Korea had. But there was a reason for that. These guys actually KNEW how to run industries, government and knew how to run businesses. Without them, South Korea was doomed to be a poor country.
So... in short, everyone does it.
Some more guilty than others.
I just wished I had something good to say about the left wing government we had for the past fifteen years but they were so crap that the media, who were traditionally left wing, turned conservative because they had lost faith in them.