10/13/2007
Barack Obama joins John Edwards in Hillary Clinton slam
By Jeff Zeleny - October 12, 2007
Barack Obama and John Edwards accused front-runner Hillary Clinton on Friday of flip-flopping on whether she would meet with leaders of hostile nations without preconditions.
Senator Barack Obama delivered a speech on the Iraq war today in Des Moines. There were a handful of new words in his address, including these two — Hillary Clinton.
For the past 10 days, Mr. Obama has been persistently working to mark the fifth anniversary of the Congressional vote authorizing the Iraq war. The point, of course, is that he, as a soon-to-be-announced candidate for the U.S. Senate, opposed the war from the beginning, while several of his rivals in the Democratic presidential race did not.
“Now, some have asked me, ‘Why are you always reminding us that you opposed the war? Isn’t that yesterday’s news? Is that experience really relevant?’” Mr. Obama said, speaking to an audience at Drake University. “And what I always say is this – this isn’t just about the past, it’s about the future. I don’t talk about my opposition to the war to say ‘I told you so.’ I wish the war had gone differently.
“But the reason I talk about it is because I truly believe that the judgment, and the conviction, and the accountability that each of us showed on the most important foreign policy decision of our lives is the best indicator you have of how each of us will make those decisions going forward.”
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October 14th, 2007 at 9:08 am
In 2003 when the vote for the war took place, Obama was a nobody state senator in Illinois. For him to say he didn’t vote for the war or was against the war is irreverently since he didn’t have a vote and what he thought didn’t matter.
The only reason Obama got elected is because a liberal judge ordered the divorce proceedings of Jack and Jeri Ryan to be made public. Both Ryan’s fought this as their were “personal” things they didn’t want made public for the sake of their child. Ryan would have most likely defeated Obama but the embarrassment caused him to drop out of the race. Interesting though how an embarrassment to a Republican is a badge of honor to a Democrat.
October 14th, 2007 at 9:42 am
Obama’s association with Axelrod, was what prompted the judge to do it; and which brought the Ryan situation out in the open. Typical demonrat tactics, to be sure.