The Hamas Flip Flop?

Did I miss something here? I have been reading for a couple of days now that John McCain has flip flopped on Hamas. Nothing that I see below tells me that.



McCain said that "we are going to have to deal with them, one way or another." But dealing with someone - or a group of someones - doesn't unequivocally imply (to me at least) that he is going to negotiate with them. The tone of his rhetoric has, however, certainly changed and I definitely find McCain 2006 more palatable than McCain 2008. I also think that McCain 2006 is likely more representative of who McCain really is but it is telling that he is willing to take on this alternate persona in order to appeal to the republican base. And I really don't think this whole "worst nightmare" business does him any good. He just makes people think of a nightmare when ever they see him.

Regardless of all that though. I don't think McCain flip flopped on this one. He just adopted a style of talking about the subject that people, myself included, find repugnant.