Posted by
Black Knight on Monday, January 21, 2008 1:21:12 PM
Finally, the nail in Bill Clinton's coffin of lies.
Clinton asserts that Obama said "There is no difference in Obama's position and Bush's," leaving the impression that Obama had moved towards the Bush position on the war.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
It was the other way around. Bush embraced international community, and thus moved closer to the Obama position.
It was always Kerry's position and Obama's, that international community imput should be sought.
As Bush moved towards the Kerry and Obama position, Obama could then say that "there was no difference in the Kerry position and the Obama position and Bush.
It is a distortion to say that Obama had moved towards the Bush position when in fact it was the other way around.
Finally, as you read through the article, even Bush spokesman said that Obama would have voted against the Iraq War Resolution.
Here the summary in Obama's own words:
"On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago," Obama said during a luncheon meeting with editors and reporters of Tribune newspapers. "There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who's in a position to execute."
"If you look on paper, [Bush] has come our way, but he has come our way at a significant cost in terms of blood and treasure," Cutter said Monday. "Bush finally agreed to go to the international community, but in voters' minds that doesn't change their opinion as to why we're at war or how the president mismanaged the war from day one."
America and the world, now we can read the entire article:
Obama says war to decide election
By David Mendell and Jeff Zeleny | Tribune staff reporters
July 27, 2004
BOSTON - Barack Obama, who will deliver the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, said Monday that he believes the Iraq war will be the deciding factor in the presidential contest, but that he does not think there is a great difference "on paper" between presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry and President Bush on the issue.
Instead, Obama, the U.S. Senate candidate from Illinois, said he believes the Bush administration has lost too much credibility in the world community to administer the policies necessary to stabilize Iraq.
"On Iraq, on paper, there's not as much difference, I think, between the Bush administration and a Kerry administration as there would have been a year ago," Obama said during a luncheon meeting with editors and reporters of Tribune newspapers. "There's not that much difference between my position and George Bush's position at this stage. The difference, in my mind, is who's in a position to execute."
Stephanie Cutter, communications director for the Kerry campaign, did not dispute Obama's statement, but said the true comparison rests in the differences over the past two years.
"If you look on paper, [Bush] has come our way, but he has come our way at a significant cost in terms of blood and treasure," Cutter said Monday. "Bush finally agreed to go to the international community, but in voters' minds that doesn't change their opinion as to why we're at war or how the president mismanaged the war from day one."
Obama, a state senator from Chicago's Hyde Park neighborhood, opposed the Iraq invasion before the war. But he now believes U.S. forces must remain to stabilize the war-ravaged nation--a policy not dissimilar to the current approach of the Bush administration.
The problem, Obama said, is the low regard for Bush in the international community.
"How do you stabilize a country that is made up of three different religious and in some cases ethnic groups, with minimal loss of life and minimum burden to the taxpayers?" Obama said. "I am skeptical that the Bush administration, given baggage from the past three years, not just on Iraq. . . . I don't see them having the credibility to be able to execute. I mean, you have to have a new administration to execute what the Bush administration acknowledges has to happen."
A Bush spokesman said the Democrats' comments are not representative of Bush's policy and again reveal the inconsistency of Kerry's Iraq stance. Kerry voted to give Bush authority to invade Iraq; Obama said he would have voted against it.
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:rNt7Xamx0oYJ:www.chicagotribune.com/news/specials/elections/chi-0407270351jul27,1,1339453.story?coll=chi-electionsprint-hed+%22said+he+believes+the+Bush+administration+has+lost+too+much+credibility+in+the+world+commYou know, Mr. Clinton, what you are doing is gutter politics worse than David Duke.
President Kennedy and Obama appeal to the highest common denominator.
You sir appeal to the worst in people. You are not what we need in the White House.