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Obama On Campaign Trail
America’s favorite Chicken Dove, Barack Obama, is hot on the campaign trail, denouncing competitors for past support of the war to Liberate Iraq. From Examiner.com:
Obama spoke out sharply against the war as an Illinois state senator in October 2002, just as the U.S. Senate was voting to authorize the conflict. He later adopted a magnanimous attitude toward pro-war Democrats, only to curtail such forbearance upon entering the presidential race. ... "The decisions we make in Washington have consequences," the junior U.S. senator from Illinois told reporters in New Hampshire. "Obviously if the senators [had] voted down the authorization, we wouldn’t be in the situation we’re in now."Burton went even further, telling the New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper: "Only Barack Obama opposed the war in Iraq from the start."
Actually, that last bit about only Obama being opposed to the war from the get go is not quite true. Saddam Hussein, his supporters, and many of the chicken doves in Hollywood were also against the war. This would explain why Obama is such a hit with Geffen and other Hollywood elites with immense wealth.
It is also wrong in regards to the Congressional votes in 2002, where 23 Senators voted against the authorization of military action against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. were Byrd, Boxer, Durbin, Feingold, and Kennedy, just to name a few.
It may be true that Obama is the only one running for President (at last of the front runners) that has been vocal against this war since the very beginning. That point I will concede. At least he is consistent.
However, in the past, he has also been vocal in his support of those who voted for war in Iraq, and has been non-critical of their vote. That has changed now that he has entered into the Presidential arena, all the while trying to link himself with Lincoln, as if he is capable of filling those shoes. One has to ask: does he know Lincoln was a Republican?
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