Matthew Rothschild: Obama Delivers

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from The Progressive:



Obama Delivers
October 4, 2007 By Matthew Rothschild



I just got around to reading Barack Obama’s speech at DePaul University, which he gave on October 2, and I’ve got to say, I was impressed.

I was impressed with his critique of those who got us into the Iraq War in the first place.

Not just Bush, said Obama, but the “media that too often reported spin instead of facts.”

Not just Bush, but “a foreign policy elite that largely boarded the bandwagon for war.” Not just Bush, but members of Congress who, as Obama put it, gave “the President a blank check and then acted surprised when he cashed it.”

Hillary Clinton and John Edwards, that dart’s for you.

Like Edwards now, Obama vowed to end the war and to “begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately,” promising to have all combat troops out within 16 month. That’s way too long; here Obama is not showing great leadership.

But he did show it when he echoed Dennis Kucinich’s call for “a world in which there are no nuclear weapons,” and when he pledged to work with Russia to take our missiles off hair-trigger alert.

You might have thought that 17 years after the fall of the Soviet Union, we no longer had weapons set to fire within fifteen minutes of an imagined attack from Moscow, but that’s where they perilously sit, even today.

So good on Obama for raising that issue. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.progressive.org/mag_wx100407

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1. Obama's the Real Deal.

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2. Kickin for the haters.

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3. everybody who has a different view than yours is a hater. odd you have to kick your own post nt

[Colobo]

4. 1) This is not my post. 2) The haters are those who hate Obama, not

those who disagree with him.

I disagree with Hillary but I don't hate her, but some people over here do. Those are haters too.

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5. I'll happily kick it

and a rec for good measure!