Obama: "Those who voted for the authorization felt pretty good."

[carpe diem]

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In an interview last week, Mr. Obama said he intended to continue using the authorization of the war to distinguish himself from fellow Democratic presidential candidates. In addition to Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Edwards, Senators Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware voted to authorize the invasion.

“The authorization vote is relevant only because it gives an insight into how people think about these problems and suggests the sort of judgment they apply in evaluating a policy decision,” Mr. Obama said. “There are people who sincerely believe that this was the best course of action, but in some cases politics entered into the calculation. In retrospect, a lot of people feel like they didn’t ask hard enough questions.”

Mr. Obama was not always so critical of the Congressional vote, taken on Oct. 11, 2002. In several interviews before the Democratic National Convention in 2004, where his national political ascent began, he said he did not place blame on Democrats who had voted to authorize the war, conceding he had not been privy to the same intelligence information.

Now, he appears intent on drawing the contrast between his early opposition to the war and the Senate votes to authorize it by Mr. Edwards, who has since repudiated his vote and apologized for it, and Mrs. Clinton, who has not apologized but has said she would not have supported the resolution had she known then what she knows now.

These days Mr. Obama dismisses the suggestion that it was easier for him to speak against the war because he was not serving in the Senate and therefore not obligated to vote on the matter. He recalled worrying, at the time, that he might lose his Senate primary election because of his decision to oppose the Iraq invasion.

“It certainly didn’t look like a cost-free decision when Saddam Hussein’s statue was being pulled down in Baghdad,” Mr. Obama said in an interview. “I was in a hotel room in the middle of my Senate campaign, watching that happen, and President Bush’s job approval rating was at 60 percent. Those who voted for the authorization felt pretty good.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/us/politics/26obama.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Bitwit1234]

1. Some people who liked Obama are getting disappointed

There is a article on HuffPost about Obama. This guy said when Obama first came on the scene he thought he was his kind of man. But he said several of his actions lately are taking the edge off his first feelings. It would be nice to go there and read it. I like all the democratic candidates and guess the best one will win. But you do get some of the things they are doing.

www.huffingtonpost.com

[illinoisprogressive]

3. What is the article's name. couldn't find anything. He is getting more people approving

of his actions. Ezra Klein who was a huge Edwards supporter is having alot of conflict in his blog and leaning Obama now.

[JI7]

5. getting disappointed with what ?

what actions of Obama was he speaking of ?

[illinoisprogressive]

2. The video of his 2002 Interview shows a man who is more insightful than many.

He called exactly what did happen before it did. This shows a man who thought deeply and knew things that could happen. A man with rare and keen insight. This video is making the rounds and should be seen by everyone.

[JI7]

4. this is one reason why don't know why Edwards is using the vote against

Hillary. i'm not talking about whether it's right or wrong to apologize for it.

but if he thinks it should be about the vote then wouldn't people vote for Obama over him ?

but i don't think it will hurt Hillary in the end anyways. i don't think how well she does in the end will come down to the IWR vote.