Reply #20: I am one of those people. I listened to the debate

[sabrina 1]

between Hillary and Obama where he said he disagreed with her that mandates were a good idea, because, he said if you had mandates you would have to have 'some kind of enforcement mechanism'. He went on to say that that it would be wrong to force people to pay for something they could not afford. I actually never considered Hillary because of her war vote, but as they began to sound the same on foreign policy, I wondered if, had he been in the Senate at the time, Obama might have voted the war also.

So, in the end, his position on health care made the difference between them. He has never explained his complete back-tracking on those issues, except to say that his 'thinking has evolved'.