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Examples
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Huckabee sees the writing on the wall and is back-peddling on his presidential aspirations.
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He made a very effective argument during his interview on KUOW yesterday and explaned how his position now is consistent with his late campaign back-peddling on the issue.
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I don't want to talk about that particular event (and in fact there seems to be some pretty intense back-peddling going on, for example in the Spectator link, the comment by Stephen McIntyre on Oct. 3rd at 3: 26pm) but I wanted to review the past few times this has come about.
Archive 2009-10-01 2009
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April 18th, 2010 11: 38 am ET this moran is such a back-peddling fool. the american people are now wise to the republican party. mcConnell shows his ignorance everytime his mouth opens. this is one bill that the repubs can't color coat, they have been caught in the lies and there is no way out.
McConnell: There's a bailout fund in current Wall St. reform bill 2010
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Better to have an honest, highly moral, hardworking woman with an enviable track-record of governmental accomplishments, than the current back-peddling, campaign promise-breaking liar Obama in office, who along with Biden and his other gang of liberal idiots don't even appear to know what they're doing!
First on the Ticker: Palin will not run for re-election 2009
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That was quick: Chloe Sevigny is back-peddling on negative remarks she made about the fourth season of her popular TV series in an interview with The AV Club.
Chloe Sevigny Slams “Big Love” — “It Was Awful This Season” 2010
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Later in the year when things picked up a bit, and we were clearly going to avoid a depression, the Fed started furiously back-peddling.
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Kristen Stewart is doing a bit of apologetic back-peddling today as she issues an apology statement in regards to comments that she made in a new British Elle magazine interview where she compared being photographed by the paparazzi to being raped.
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I've had a few nibbles of interest but a lot of back-peddling due to funding issues.
Economic Status via Google Hits Candid Engineer 2009
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Cue, some back-peddling and my (ignored) pleas to take down my reply ...
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