Since there's a thread bashing Bill for speaking the truth about Obama, I thought it would be a good thing to see what Obama himself said. Here's a snip from an MTP interview (with the link to all of it). Pay attention:
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MR. RUSSERT: You were not in the Senate in October of 2002. You did give a speech opposing the war. But Senator Clinton’s campaign will say since you’ve been a senator there’s been no difference in your record. And other critics will say that you’ve not been a leader against the war, and they point to this:
In July of ‘04, Barack Obama, “I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports. What would I have done? I don’t know,” in terms of how you would have voted on the war.
And then this: “There’s not much of a difference between my position on Iraq and George Bush’s position at this stage.” That was July of ‘04.
And this: “I think” there’s “some room for disagreement in that initial decision to vote for authorization of the war.” It doesn’t seem that you are firmly wedded against the war, and that you left some wiggle room that, if you had been in the Senate, you may have voted for it.
SEN. OBAMA: Now, Tim, that first quote was made with an interview with a guy named Tim Russert on MEET THE PRESS during the convention when
we had a nominee for the presidency and a vice president, both of whom had voted for the war. And so it, it probably was the wrong time for me to be making a strong case against our party’s nominees’ decisions when it came to Iraq.http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21738432 ------------------------------------
Did you catch that? Three times in the queestion Russert quoted Obama as saying things in support of the war or non-critical of the war, saying he didn't know how he would have voted and that there was room for disagreement, and that there was no diff between he and bush. Obama's words. Ok. No arguemnt, right, his words.
And his reasoning, his justification? It wouldn't have been good to speak his convictions because of political expediency. In other words, he betrayed his (supposed) convictions on the war in 04 because of the poitical consequences of being honest. He said things he didn't believe for political reasons. He just said so, it's right up above. No argument, right, his words.
But take this just a small step further - if, as he admitted, Obama will lie for political reasons, betray his own supposed convictions for political expediency, then how can you know when he's telling the truth about what he blieves, and when he's just saying what will score political points?
Was he lying when he was against the war? Or when he said there was no diff between he and bush? Is he lying now? Will he be lying tomorrow? Which times? How can anyone know?
One can bash Bill and Hillary all they like, but facts are stubborn things. And here you have facts. They back up Bill, not Obama.
Flame away, but you can't change the facts.