Ok, I've Just Gotta Say It: After Last Night, I Believe Obama Would've Voted For The IWR.

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He wasn't in the Senate at the time, so it's real easy for him to claim he would've held the same position as he did if he HAD been in the Senate, but there's no way to know that for sure. All we can do is go by his word.

But last night, there was a part of the debate that glared out at me and got me thinking a lot as to whether he truly would've voted against it and maintained the same judgment. After thinking about it, I no longer think he would've. That moment was when he spoke of the one vote he regrets, which was the Terry Schiavo vote. He made it quite clear that he should've known better. He made it quite clear that if he had stepped aside and thought about it, he should've known it was the wrong move. He spoke quite clearly that with his law background and otherwise knowledgeable capability, he should've absolutely known better and chosen the right path. But he didn't. He was in the Senate. Once in the Senate, the rules change a bit. Thought processes get skewed, peer pressure kicks in, objectivity can get clouded. That's what happened to him as it relates to the Schiavo vote, which at the time I considered to be one of the most embarrassing things our congress has ever done.

But what got me thinking the most, was that nagging thought in my head that had he NOT have been a Senator, that he absolutely would've been giving a speech as to WHY that would be such a bad move and condemning those who voted for it. I'm convinced if he was just a civilian, he WOULD'VE known better. But once he was a Senator, he made the wrong judgment. The situation was too political. He joined the crowd. He chose wrong. That happens in politics. That happens once in the Senate. It happens too often. He was guilty of it there.

But that was just within the context of something as light as the Terry Schiavo case. If he was able to have his perception flawed with that, I ABSOLUTELY think his perception could easily have been clouded as it relates to the IWR vote, HAD HE BEEN A SENATOR. It very well may have been clouded just like SO MANY of our good Dems, who had been duped a bit as well.

But I don't for a second buy the argument that based on his speeches etc, that he most certainly would've stood against the IWR had he actually been in the Senatorial position to do so. Had he been a civilian, I'm convinced he would've given the same type of speech about the Schiavo case. But as a Senator, he DIDN'T give that speech. In fact, he fell hook line and sinker into the political wave. To stand there and think for a second that the same thing couldn't have happened had he been Senator during the IWR, is way naive in my opinion.

Ok, that's all I really have to say about that. Just a thought that's been on my mind since last night.