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Obama's first salvo targets Hillary Clinton
The Daily Telegraph ^ | February 12, 2007 | Toby Harnden

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."


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; election; obama; obamagasm; obamaosama; obamasama; osamabama; osamaobama
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To: MadIvan

Doesn't Obama know about the scores of people who have crossed the Clintons and mysteriously stopped their consumption of O2?


41 posted on 02/12/2007 4:32:16 AM PST by BuffaloJack
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To: goldstategop

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.


42 posted on 02/12/2007 4:46:16 AM PST by chiefqc
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To: LibLieSlayer

I think you are right. I don't care for him at all and I don't trust him.


43 posted on 02/12/2007 5:15:09 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: expatguy

Thank you for the info, after my daughter goes off to school I will read it..thanks again....~P~


44 posted on 02/12/2007 5:18:12 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: pandoraou812

You are welcome :-)


45 posted on 02/12/2007 5:19:12 AM PST by expatguy (http://laotze.blogspot.com/)
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To: MadIvan

If he had been POTUS when we were attacked we would still be getting attacked here in the US by his brothers in Islam.


46 posted on 02/12/2007 5:26:31 AM PST by stockpirate (Most of Clinton's policies are very similar to most of mine." - Rudy Giuliani)
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To: nopardons

Good advice...Thanks ~~P~~


47 posted on 02/12/2007 5:27:48 AM PST by pandoraou812 ( zero tolerance to the will of Allah ...... dilligaf? with an efg.....)
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To: MadIvan

Hey Obama,

Free the Barrett Report. No Republican has the cajones to do it.


48 posted on 02/12/2007 5:31:29 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
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To: Northern Alliance
So if we are both right, then who does that leave? Gore, and he will run.

Academy Award winner and Nobel Laureate Al Gore will be the Democrat nominee.

49 posted on 02/12/2007 5:33:54 AM PST by NeoCaveman (Hillary Hugo Chavez wants to "take those profits" away from you, for the common good)
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To: MadIvan
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."

So.... how would YOU do it???

50 posted on 02/12/2007 5:35:38 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: MadIvan
"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.

 

 

Birds of a feather!!

51 posted on 02/12/2007 5:37:16 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: MadIvan
Mr Obama, increasingly confident of his ground on foreign policy...

Uh...

Mr. Barak; just what IS your 'policy'??

52 posted on 02/12/2007 5:39:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: MadIvan

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?


53 posted on 02/12/2007 5:44:55 AM PST by School of Rational Thought (Conservatism - For Thinking People)
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To: pandoraou812
 
 
 
"He wrote an essay titled,
'I Want To Become President,' "

54 posted on 02/12/2007 5:47:47 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: GSlob
As for the dem voters, for all I know they could run bill clinton's dirty underwear without bill clinton in it.

Isn't this Hillary?

55 posted on 02/12/2007 5:48:53 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: nopardons
Never EVER trust or vote for someone who has wanted to be president since they were little/a teen; nor whose father has wanted his child, any child of his, to be president.

Why not?

56 posted on 02/12/2007 5:49:54 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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To: MadIvan

"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! ;)


57 posted on 02/12/2007 5:49:54 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Obama is extremely dangerous - he's clever enough to win power, but not clever enough to use power wisely. I hear the strains of Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" whenever I see him on television: under his leadership, expect a thundering collapse.

Regards, Ivan

58 posted on 02/12/2007 5:51:54 AM PST by MadIvan (I aim to misbehave.)
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To: Elsie
Mr. Barak; just what IS your 'policy'??

Barak Hussein Osama's policy, explicitly, is "cut and run". It is "surrender to the terrorists".

59 posted on 02/12/2007 5:53:14 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: MadIvan

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. :)


60 posted on 02/12/2007 5:56:07 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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