In Denmark, national authorities have come close to defining adaptation of the majority culture as a precondition for inclusion into the nation, whereas Norway has assumed a somewhat wavering intermediate position.
But potential supporters, watching him declare that "you will not see me wavering" from positions he has since abandoned, may waver.Critics of John McCain, another leading Republican, have posted clips of him saying contradictory things about Iraq, gay marriage and the preacher Jerry Falwell, whom he once called an "agent of intolerance" but now courts.
Asked if the president was wavering in his position, Mr. McClellan said, "The president has made his position clear, but there are a lot of issues involved, that include legal and ethical issues as well as the promise of science".
"Ron has made his positions clear, he has not wavered from those positions," Phillip Rotondi, political director for NCPSSM's campaign arm, said in a conference call with reporters today.
"He has never wavered from that position".
In practice, Obama has not wavered from the position taken by the N.S.A.'s lawyers and embraced by Feinstein and the majority of the Intelligence Committee.
For two and a half years, the president has never wavered from his position that the uprising is a foreign plot — and he continues to refuse to express any responsibility or remorse for the blood washing over Syria.
"We're optimistic in the sense that we have no doubt George will be acquitted," he told CBS News. "We do not waver from our position that we've consistently maintained, that George is innocent and acted in self-defence".
He later said he was joking, but at no time did we ever waver from our position that the event was over.
