Reply #33: Well, I believe the account in the BG that said there were presidential politics involved.

[beachmom]

However, I respect you coming at it from a different POV.

Edit: agreed that Obama didn't have to vote on it, and that should be taken into consideration. Still, given the way Michael Moore was treated, protesting the war at the Academy Awards in 2003 (he was booed by HOLLYWOOD), I think it took guts to speak out against it, when clearly, Obama had long term political ambitions.