The story that McCain told a “secret” meeting of Hispanic leaders in Chicago (hmmm….) that, if elected, he would still fight for his immigration reform package panned by conservatives and unable to get passed on Capitol Hill. Of course, this is a startling contradiction to what McCain had changed his immigration stance to after the conservative outrage before and during the GOP primary over JMac’s peddling of “amnesty.”

The Obama campaign is not letting this potential flip-flop on immigration go unnoticed.

Sen. Barack Obama’s presidential campaign is going after Republican rival Sen. John McCain, questioning whether the Arizona senator is offering contradictory language on the hot-button issue of immigration reform following a closed-door meeting McCain held with activists during a recent trip to Chicago.

The Obama campaign cited a Jan. 30 debate among the GOP presidential rivals in which they contended McCain said he would not vote for his immigration reform measure today because the American people made it clear that border security was their top priority. “It was just one of several examples through out the week of John McCain being in a tortured debate with John McCain,” Gibbs said.

Gibbs termed Friday “the end of pander week aboard the double-talk express of the John McCain campaign”–a takeoff of McCain’s “Straight Talk express.”

For McCain’s part, Tucker Bounds, spokesman for the Republican’s campaign, responded with this comment:

“Despite the wildly misinformed opinions of Barack Obama’s spokesman, John McCain fundamentally believes that we need to secure our border, and then move forward to address the need for immigration reform in a respectful and compassionate manner that recognizes that we are all God’s children. That’s his position yesterday, today and every other day - before all the groups he meets with.”