Question for Obama or any of his peeps.

[BenDavid]

You(obama) stated that you were not in the Senate in October 2002 when Bush rammed through Congress the resolution authorizing the use of force in Iraq. But you also stated that “perhaps the reason I thought it was such a bad idea was I didn’t have the benefit of U.S. intelligence.”

This implies that you might have voted for the war if you had been in the Senate when the vote was taken. Why then do you condemn Hillary and other Senators who voted for the war authorization resolution when you admit the possibility that if you had been in the Senate you would have done the same?

[Hawkeye-X]

1. And Obama already stated he would not vote for the IWR repeatedly

and yet you stick with that little niggling fact that says otherwise?

[Writer]

9. But you have to admit that saying otherwise is political suicide this year.

Why WOULD he say otherwise?

[GarbagemanLB]

2. Maybe because she didn't read the NIE, which stated there was doubt about the basic claims of the ad

ministration?

[IndianaGreen]

3. Bush didn't "ram" the IWR though Congress

It was a bipartisan lovefest in the Rose Garden! Not one of Dick Gephardt's most honorable days.

[blogslut]

4. Senator Clinton did not read the NIE

Instead, she depended on a briefing from Condi Rice.

She calls that "careful consideration". I call it horseshit.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. You (Hill) might fall for bushes lies but I didn't. And neither did Obama. Neither did the

majority of Democrats in Congress.

Maybe the reason the Repos voted for the war was the same reason Hillary voted for the war?

[AX10]

6. K & R!

This is a question that all Obamites should answer.

[JimGinPA]

7. I Have A Question Too...

Do you think Mrs. Clinton will stand for re-election for her seat in the senate when her present term is up or return to private life?

[MercutioATC]

8. Jesus! Do you do ANY research before you post this stuff?

Clinton HAD the "U.S. intelligence" that contradicted Bush's argument...she just failed to read it

[Political Heretic]

10. N. I. E.

[AtomicKitten]

13. Yep.

Obama was asked what he thought about Clinton's television advertisement in which she suggested she was more qualified than Obama to answer a 3 a.m. call on a national security crisis -- an ad that helped her win Texas and Ohio.

>> "The person you want answering the phone at 3 a.m. is the person who has read the intelligence reports, who is asking the tough questions about why we want to invade a country like Iraq that had nothing to do with 9/11. That's somebody who has good judgment. And there's only one out of the remaining candidates who qualifies on that front," Obama said."

[SemiCharmedQuark]

11. I doubt we can convince someone who believes Obama wants to "surrender to the Mulllahs"

Your mind is made up. Please don't pretend that anything anyone says is suddenly going to change that.

[cliffordu]

12. OMFG!!! I NEVER THOUGHT OF THAT

YOU ARE A GENIUS!!!!


not.

Same crap:

:hurts:


Different day!

always good for a laugh, man!

[beandoc]

14. Context

Obama was questioned about the Iraq War vote during the 2004 election when John Kerry was the presumptive democratic nominee. Previously, Obama had publicly taken a strong stance against the war in Iraq and stated he would have voted against it. Now he was asked about it in the context of a nominee who had voted to authorize the war.
If you want to fault him for allowing room in his position to support the Democratic nominee, that's fair. I suppose he could have thrown Kerry under the bus and given you the consistency in his position you are looking for.
It was a political move in a complex situation, and personally I think he handled it fairly well.

[thevoiceofreason]

15. Because had he been in the Senate, he woould have read the NIE before voting

Just like Hillary and her knee-jerk response to China re: the Olympica, he read up on things, and delivered a considered decision. He would have done the same, and come to the same conclusion.

[ZombieHorde]

16. I don't think that Obama is on this board, so he can not answer your post, nt