Reply #18: Was the first measure ever voted on...no

[BeyondGeography]

so there is absolutely no point in discussing it.

Your main problem seems to be that Hillary blundered on voting for this amendment and handed everyone (not just Obama) a campaign issue. Can't help you there.

Obama is not alone in drawing a distinction between the IRG designation (which could apply to any activities it supports in the region) and Kyl-Lieberman's linkage of Iran to Iraq:

==The "Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007," which Obama cosponsored on April 24, 2007, states clearly that:

"The Secretary of State should designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the Secretary of the Treasury should place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism)."

But Obama (and other Democrats) say they are not objecting, necessarily, to the labeling of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. They're looking at a different section of the amendment they say creates disconcerting linkage between Iran and Iraq.==

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/10/the-obama-disse.html