Reply #136: Just that, as Venable said, [View All]

he not only voted for it, he cosponsored it, and he worked very hard to get others to vote for it as well. That, to me, represents something that goes much deeper than simply voting in favor of a bad piece of legislation.

I remember the primaries and the debates well. I remember how absolutely unequivocal Edwards support of the war was. He made it pretty clear at the time that he was very much in favor of the actual invasion, not just of giving Bush "leverage" to get Saddam to submit to inspections. Only Lieberman seemed more gung-ho on the war than Edwards did. The view that he articulated in the Hardball interview did not appear to change over the entire course of the campaign, right up to the election. That's alot longer than six months. It also indicates a support for the war that was not tied to the alleged presence of WMDs, since it was well established by then that they weren't there.

I don't believe that pointing this out is the same as "eating our own". I was saying why I thought Obama was better qualified for the presidency.

We all have different views of the Iraq war. Some of us feel more strongly than others, and for some of us, this shapes who we can or cannot support for the Democratic nomination.

I answered only because you asked. You are obviously free to come to your own conclusions based on your own reading of the evidence.