President Obama hasn’t always agreed with Senator Obama

[alp227]

On Capitol Hill this year, one of President Obama’s most troublesome critics has been Senator Obama.

President Obama, for instance, wants Congress to raise the national debt limit. But his opponents have brought up a statement then-Senator Obama made in 2006: the first-term Democrat representing the state of Illinois said even debating a debt-limit increase was “a sign of leadership failure.”

Now-President Obama insists that he has the right to dispatch U.S. forces to the conflict in Libya without authorization from Congress, a position that is likely to cause him a rebuke in the House Friday when that chamber is expected to pass a resolution stripping funds for offensive action like U.S. drone strikes in that country (the measure is unlikely to pass the Senate).

Critics of that conflict have noted that Senator Obama seemed to feel differently about the proper use of military force in 2007. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) even carries a quote from Sen. Obama in his pocket, to show people who don’t believe.

Full: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2011/06/22/AGhK4AjH_singlePage.html

[ImNotTed]

1. Reality Check

Who passes this standard? Unrecced.

[outerSanctum]

3. Exactly!!

It's absolutely ridiculous to expect him to govern the way he said that he would....

...uh... wait. Is it?

[Autumn]

2. Oh that silly Kucinich, carrying a quote to smear

Obama.:rofl: he's too cool.

[Lisa D]

4. Rep. Kucinich hasn't always agreed with Rep. Kucinich

Prior to his 2004 presidential run = anti choice
A week after announcing his presidential candidacy = pro choice

Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party. ~Winston Churchill