Reply #34: As others have said...

[Bishop Rook]

The position is quite consistent. He doesn't know how he would have voted if he had access to the same information the other Senators did, but from what he saw, the case wasn't made. That's honesty. It would have been much more politically expedient to just say, "If I had been in the Senate, I never would have voted for the war!" Because nobody can call him on that, he wasn't in the Senate, and our news media does not employ mind readers. Instead of doing that, he honestly answered that he can't say how he would have voted without having been in the other candidates' shoes.

The clip is also quite obviously cropped and edited halfway through. I heard this exact interview on the radio today, it was much longer and he went more in-depth into why he said he didn't know how he would have voted. It was not simply "because I wanted to make Kerry and Edwards look good." You can also see by the ticker on the screen bottom that it was CNN doing this malicious editing, not the Youtube poster. Nice.