HA -Obama in stump speech says if Hillary read the NIE she would have voted against the

[jillan]

IWR just like Rockefeller told her to do.

Problem - Rockefeller voted YEA for the IWR.

Nice try!

http://www.adn.com/uspolitics/v-printer/story/333426.html

What happened: Obama ripped Sen. Hillary Clinton on Sunday for failing to read the National Intelligence Estimate before voting in 2002 to authorize the Iraq war. He said she should've followed the lead of Sen. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., contending that he, as the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, did read the report and voted against the war.

"Jay Rockefeller read it, but she didn't read it," Obama told a rally in Westerville, Ohio. "I don't know what all that experience got her, because I have enough experience to know that if you have a National Intelligence Estimate and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee says, `You should read this, this is why I'm voting against the war,' you should read it."

At the same time, an Obama campaign strategist was on ABC lauding Obama's endorsement from Rockefeller, referring to him as "the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee who opposed the war in Iraq, who read the intelligence before the war."

Why that's out of bounds:

First, former Sen. Bob Graham, D-Fla., was the chairman of the intelligence committee at the time of the 2002 war vote, not Rockefeller. It was Graham who read the top secret report and voted against the war.

Second, Rockefeller voted FOR the war resolution.

Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

[ProSense]

1. Let me just say:

no he didn't!

You're wrong!

[Yael]

2. This again?

*sigh*

Debunked but thanks for wasting one of yur threads on it.

(Search is your friend)

[Schema Thing]

3. OP is either dumb or dishonest

[jillan]

5. More unity and hope. I'm so impressed with the new kind of politics!

[AX10]

4. Rove, err....Axelrod was spouting this...

nonsense about Rockefeller voting against the IWR too.

[Rageneau]

6. Obama's lying. Why use Rockefeller's name at all, if not to suggest he voted against IWR?

Obama's clean-up team is saying that BO meant Graham, not Rockefeller, when he referred to the Committee Chairman. But if that is true, why in the heck would Obama mention Rockefeller at all? Especially when Rockefeller voted YES on the IWR.

There is only one feasible answer: Obama screwed up in his statement. He was wrong about Rockefeller's vote, but is too vain to admit it. So his spin team is whirling as fast as it can to keep him looking infallible.

This is a new kind of politician?

[emilyg]

7. !!