Reply #50: I don't believe for one second that Obama would have voted against the IWR.

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It's just a very convenient position for him to take. All safe, no risk. But he's too ambitious to have taken a position that was very controversial at the time and potentially politically damaging. I'd respect him more had he stuck to what he once said, that he doesn't know how he would have voted. He let a bit of honesty slip, which is not in keeping with him and today's politician. It is not me who is politically naive. Obama is the status quo in a new package, which is a very American way of doing things.