Reply #25: Clinton voted to authorize the war in Iraq; Obama, OTOH, did the following:

[Smarmie Doofus]

>>>>>In foreign affairs, Obama was an early opponent of the George W. Bush administration's policies on Iraq.<220> On October 2, 2002, the day President Bush and Congress agreed on the joint resolution authorizing the Iraq War,<221> Obama addressed the first high-profile Chicago anti-Iraq War rally,<222> and spoke out against the war.<223> He addressed another anti-war rally in March 2003 and told the crowd that "it's not too late" to stop the war.<224>>>>>>> source: wiki

The vast majority of people within the party for whom "the wars" were the major issue supported Obama and not Clinton for this reason.

Yes, in the course of he campaign, both Obama and Clinton hedged; Clinton to win back the DEM base and Obama to position himself in the general election as a foreign policy "moderate" to appeal to ( presumably) hawkish swing voters. But most DEMs assumed he was "taking a position" and not describing a policy approach that would be characteristic of his first term.

The fact that we were wrong about THAT doesn't mean that most DEMs didn't vote for the Obama in the above excerpt. We did.

Problem is: we elected Obama but got Clinton. Much like '64: we elected Johnson and got Goldwater.

Politics sometimes...... I'm tellin' ya.