Dick Durbin: Obama will win Iowa

[Colobo]

Durbin, 62, said Obama was wrong to upbraid Clinton for her Sept. 26 vote to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization, a nonbinding resolution that Durbin also supported. Obama, who was campaigning in New Hampshire and missed the vote, said the language of the measure could potentially push the U.S. closer to war with Iran.

``It's rare that Barack and I disagree on an issue of this magnitude,'' Durbin, the second-highest ranking Senate Democrat, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television's ``Political Capital with Al Hunt,'' scheduled to air today. ``I have the same concerns that Barack Obama does about this administration and what they might do with the power that they have. But I don't think this resolution gives them a green light to do anything.''

Obama, 46, called the resolution ``reckless'' in an essay published in the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday, saying it ``could be used by the president as justification to strike Iran under the authority granted to him by the 2002 Iraq war resolution.'' Clinton is ``the only Democratic candidate for president who supports this reckless amendment,'' he wrote.

Obama has repeatedly criticized Clinton for voting to authorize the use of force against Iraq in 2002.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20071012/pl_bloomberg/a6jzhktwwgcq_1

[Colobo]

1. Durbin is right.

[flpoljunkie]

3. Durbin also said Robert Gates assured him that we had no plan to attack Iran.

Does he really think Robert Gates will not be treated like Colin Powell was--told after the fact that the decision had been made to go to war. I really like Dick Durbin, but I totally disagree with his yes vote on Kyl-Lieberman.

George W. Bush is not to be trusted, and this resolution was not only unnecessary, but unwise. Otherwise, why would Hillary rush to co-sponsor Webb's amendment, without even speaking with him about it-- after voting for Kyl-Lieberman. Webb thought she was trying to cover herself, as well.

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

2. I agree that Obama will win Iowa. And Durbin's a good guy.

[incapsulated]

4. A blessing and a curse if he does

Iowa is rather notorious for picking losers but Obama needs Iowa. Catch-22.