This article is about the way Obama has changed his positions on the issue.

Adam, I wrote a primer on offhore drilling for you. Have you figured out how fungible commodities trade on global markets yet?

What I find rather humorous is that, by doing so, he is VERY close to committing a cardinal sin of campaigning: alienating your base. Everyone knows that the core of the Democratic Party are those closely affiliated to the environmentalist base. Which is fine. But, with Obama now publicly changing his position, he leaves them wondering. Not that they will change to a McCain vote, but this may pressure some to stay at home, especially because the environment is no longer an issue on the back burner.

Further, Obama is now stuck. He changed his position once, and can reasonably justify it by saying he had not looked closely enough at the benefits, etc. But, should he EVER change back to “no we can’t drill there” ANY moderate-to-conservative voters he might have attracted from a pro-drilling stance will be lost. Thus losing TWO components of his electorate.

And, like I said: with the environment being this big of an issue, Obama may not be able to recover.