Obama’s campaign is often praised as disciplined and focused, but a good chunk of his flip-flops are a result of staffers who, we are later told, are freelancing or mischaracterizing the true views of the candidate. Based on how frequently Obama staffers contradict each other on fairly basic matters, there is a strong case to be made that an Obama White House would be chaos.

Obama’s chief strategist David Axelrod to the Chicago Sun Times, July 25: The Pentagon “viewed this as a campaign event and therefore they said he should not come.”

Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs, on Morning Joe, this morning: “We never said that the Pentagon prevented us from going.”