Obama voted for a bill, rose to say he opposed it, then told voters he was "undecided"?

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4178177, Obama voted for a bill, rose to say he opposed it, then told voters he was "undecided"?
Posted by jackson_dem on Wed Jan-23-08 10:17 PM

This example captures the slippery essence of Obama and what Hillary said the other night about it being hard to see where Obama stood on things.

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The measure, pushed by the gambling industry and fought by church groups whose support Obama was seeking for his reelection the following year, passed with only two "yeas" to spare -- including Obama's. But moments after its passage he rose to say, "I'd like to be recorded as a no vote," explaining that he mistakenly voted for it.

Obama would later develop a reputation as a critic of the gambling industry, and he voted against a similar measure two years later. But he was clearly confused about how to handle the issue at the time of his first vote, telling a church group on a 1998 campaign questionnaire that he was "undecided" about whether he backed an expansion of riverboat gambling.

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-obamavotes24jan24,0,4956975,full.story?coll=la-home-center