Obama said 'no' to Iraq money in theory, 'yes' in reality

[William769]

PAHRUMP, Nev. -- When Barack Obama was running for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004, he filled out a questionnaire for the Chicago Sun-Times answering "no" to this question: Would you have voted for the $87 billion supplemental appropriation for Iraq and Afghanistan?

Once elected to the Senate, Obama voted for a series of war funding measures, as did chief rival Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

For months, the Clinton campaign has been trying to get people to pay attention to this point, as Obama's White House drive features his initial opposition to the Iraq war in 2002 when he was an Illinois state senator.

Clinton wants the focus to be on what Obama did regarding war funding once he got in the Senate. Obama wants to emphasize he was against war authorization and Clinton voted for it. She wants to talk about funding and plant seeds about whether Obama's anti-war talk in his presidential campaign matches his actions while a senator.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/739563,CST-NWS-sweet14.article

[redqueen]

1. Wonder why that's not getting any traction...

did they just now start trying to get this info out there?

[The_Casual_Observer]

2. The republicans haven't been bothering with this yet. They will

when the time is right. Obama has some kind of an excuse for this that is floated whenever it comes up. The excuse isn't really very satisfactory, but it suffices for now.

[aquart]

3. Obama is a very able liar. I wouldn't worry about his excuses.

He'll do fine.

[Barack_America]

4. He said yes to funding the troops in a war that Hillary helped get them in...

BTW, what was Hillary's vote on further funding for the war? What's that you say? She voted for funding too?

So your argument is that he should've voted against funding soldiers' salaries and providing armor for their vehicles? Nice.

[Alamom]

5. k&r