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27
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by QuestionGirl • 9:41 am
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I thought Obama delivered some good zingers at last night’s debate……..
In regard to special interests:
The second thing we’re going to have to do is we’re actually going to have to go after the special interests. Senator Clinton, in one of these speeches — it may have been the same speech where you showed the clip — said, you can’t just wave a magic wand and expect special interests to go away.
That is absolutely true, but it doesn’t help if you’re taking millions of dollars of contributions from those special interests.
In regard to Clinton’s Iraq war vote:
My objections to the war in Iraq were not simply a speech. I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign. It was a high’stakes campaign. I was one of the most vocal opponents of the war, and I was very specific as to why.
And so when I bring this up, it is not simply to say, “I told you so,” but to give you an insight in terms of how I would make decisions.
And the fact was this was a big strategic blunder. It was not a matter of, “Well, here is the initial decision, but since then we’ve voted the same way.”
Once we had driven the bus into the ditch, there were only so many ways we could get out. The question is: Who’s making the decision initially to drive the bus into the ditch?
And the fact is that Senator Clinton often says that she is ready on day one, but, in fact, she was ready to give in to George Bush on day one on this critical issue. So the same person that she criticizes for having terrible judgment and we can’t afford to have another one of those — in fact, she facilitated and enabled this individual to make a decision that has been strategically damaging to the United States of America.
Full transcript here
What’d you think?
Filed: 2008 Presidential Election








