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Hillary, Biden, Obama Side With MoveOn on Petreus Ad
FoxNews has a piece covering the Senate action to condmen the recent "General Petreus or General Betray Us" ad from MoveOn.org. From FoxNews:
The Senate on Thursday overwhelmingly passed a measure condemning MoveOn.org for a newspaper ad it ran last week attacking Gen. David Petraeus. The move came as President Bush accused Democrats of cowering to the liberal political action group.The measure passed in a 72-25 vote, with none of the Democratic presidential candidates supporting it. Sponsored by Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn, never one to shy away from forcing Democrats to go on record on politically sticky issues, the amendment to the defense authorization bill did win the backing of 23 Democrats.
Sens. Joe Biden and Barack Obama were absent from the vote, though Obama had voted 20 minutes earlier on a Democratic effort to circumvent the amendment. Sens. Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd voted against the measure.
The amendment, which did not specifically name MoveOn.org, although it should have, passed overwhelmingly, with many Democrats voting for it. What is not so surprising is who failed to support it: Obama, Biden and Hillary Clinton.
Apparently Obama left his job in order to avoid voting for (or against) it after efforts he supported to shutdown the amendment failed. This is a man who wants to be Commander in Chief of our Armed Forces and he will not support an amendment that condemns the character assassination of a man who has dedicated his entire life to serving his country, and has, unlike Obama, done so honorably and with integrity. Once again, featherweight candidate Obama proves that he is unqualified of serving this country as dog catcher let alone as president.
As for Hillary, by voting against the amendment also proves she can not be trusted with this nation's highest honor. At least, unlike Obama, Hillary stuck around for the vote instead of hiding her head in the sand or trying to play both ends of the field.
The only reasons that these presidential hopefuls and the 20+ others, all Democrats, who voted against the amendment (disappearing from the Senate floor to avoid a vote is the same as voting against it in this case) is because they AGREE with MoveOn.org's ad calling General Petreus a traitor.
America needs leaders who will do what is right, and the condemnation in the Senate of the personal attacks carried out against General Petreus was the right thing to do, regardless of whether or not you support the war in Iraq.
The same thing applies to Joe Biden as it does to Obama, as he is also on the list of wannbe presidents.
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