Reason To Believe

Barack Obama, in what I assume is a pivot toward the center now that he figures he's got the nomination sewn up, is denying he ever said he'd meet with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unconditionally. Of course, as other blogs have noted, he did this very thing in front of millions of people. So which Obama to believe?

In these cases, I tend to accept the latest pander, unless there's a reason to think he decided to tell the truth at any given time (in particular, if it's a statment made off the cuff, or in private, or against interest). Same goes for McCain, of course, or any politician.

PS I would not accept as a tie-breaker anything on the candidate's website. (Obama's still claims on his he'd meet without preconceptions.) There's no reason to believe the candidate wrote any of it, or even read it.