Posted on 02/11/2007 11:37:55 PM PST by MadIvan
Senator Barack Obama yesterday launched his toughest attack yet on his rival Hillary Clinton, blasting her for backing the "tragic mistake" of the Iraq war and voting to give President George W Bush a green light from Congress.
"It should never have been authorised," he said in Ames, Iowa, where he was campaigning the day after he announced he was running for the White House. "Even at the time, it was possible to make judgments that this would not work well.
"I feel good about the fact that my judgment was we shouldn't be proceeding and I think that speaks hopefully to the kind of judgment I'll be bringing to the office of president."
Mrs Clinton, he charged, was also vague about how she would end the war beyond promising to bring it to a close if she were elected. "How she wants to accomplish that, I'm not clear."
Mr Obama, 45, who has been criticised by the Clinton camp for a lack of experience, showed that he was not going to let his main opponents off the hook.
Both the front runner Mrs Clinton, 59, and John Edwards, 53, running a strong third in polls, were among senators who authorised the war in 2002 but have since modified their positions. At rally after rally in Iowa, Mr Obama slammed the "senseless" and "ill-conceived" war to huge applause.
Mrs Clinton, campaigning in New Hampshire at the same time, had to field hostile questions about her vote from disgruntled Democrats. Mr Obama also took Mrs Clinton's early campaign slogan of "I'm in it to win it" to suggest she was interested only in getting elected.
"I am in it to win it," he said, responding to calls from a Davenport crowd. "Hold on. But I want you to understand that I'm also I'm in it to transform the country."
At a breakfast in Iowa Falls, he appeared to take another shot at Mrs Clinton, who is often accused of excessive ambition. "I'm not one of those people who decided at the age of seven that I wanted to be president."
Mr Obama, increasingly confident of his ground on foreign policy, ridiculed John Howard, the Australian premier, for criticising his plan to pull US troops out of Iraq by March next year.
"I think it's flattering that one of George Bush's allies on the other side of the world started attacking me the day after I announced," he said.
"I would also note that we have close to 140,000 troops in Iraq, and my understanding is Mr Howard has deployed 1,400, so if he is... to fight the good fight in Iraq, I would suggest that he calls up another 20,000 Australians and sends them to Iraq.
"Otherwise it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric."
Doesn't Obama know about the scores of people who have crossed the Clintons and mysteriously stopped their consumption of O2?
Although I still think he is empty suit but he better be careful. If he keeps this type of talk about klinton, he may be a dead man walking.
I think you are right. I don't care for him at all and I don't trust him.
Thank you for the info, after my daughter goes off to school I will read it..thanks again....~P~
You are welcome :-)
If he had been POTUS when we were attacked we would still be getting attacked here in the US by his brothers in Islam.
Good advice...Thanks ~~P~~
Hey Obama,
Free the Barrett Report. No Republican has the cajones to do it.
Academy Award winner and Nobel Laureate Al Gore will be the Democrat nominee.
So.... how would YOU do it???
At a breakfast in Iowa Falls, he appeared to take another shot at Mrs Clinton, who is often accused of excessive ambition.
Birds of a feather!!
Uh...
Mr. Barak; just what IS your 'policy'??
All but one of the presidential wannabe will lose.
Does this mean that they "lied" at the outset?
Does this mean that their plan was "ill-concieved"?
Doe this mean that campaign speeches are "...just a bunch of empty rhetoric"?
etc.
Obama loses, Obmama lied, and people still die?
Isn't this Hillary?
Why not?
"Otherwise it's just a bunch of empty rhetoric."
I guess he doesn't notice that his own 'Empty Rhetoric' matches nicely with the 'Empty Suit' he wears every day! ;)
Regards, Ivan
Barak Hussein Osama's policy, explicitly, is "cut and run". It is "surrender to the terrorists".
I don't think he's going anywhere. At this point in time, he is enabling The Beast to move up in the rankings, though...and that's bad enough.
It's still a long road to November 2008. I haven't lost ALL hope for America. Yet. :)
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