tanstaafl
2008-03-07 10:10:33
…and it wasn’t a gamble for him because he wasn’t in the US Senate and therefore wasn’t in a position of responsibility. Obama’s impassioned reply was, “I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high-stakes campaign.” Wrong. In reality, Obama did not announce his intentions to run for the US Senate until January 2003.
I’ve had a lot of problems with Barack’s claim to prescience (and “courage”) in opposing intervention in Iraq. It strikes me as pretty thin stuff.
He constantly uses it as an example of his judgment and political creds but, as noted, he wasn’t even in the US Senate in October 2002, to even cast a vote on the Authorization for use of force in Iraq.
