Obama tried to throw a verbal assault weapon at Hillary. Barack chose to condemn Hillary for her Iraq War vote by comparing her to Jay Rockefeller. It appears that there was blowback which caused damage to his reputation as a brilliant mind:
Obama criticized Clinton expressly for failing to read the classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons capabilities, a report available at the time of her October 2002 vote authorizing the Iraq war. “She didn’t give diplomacy a chance. And to this day, she won’t even admit that her vote was a mistake – or even that it was a vote for war,” Obama said.
“When it came time to make the most important foreign policy decision of our generation the decision to invade Iraq Senator Clinton got it wrong,” Obama said.
He said that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a fellow Democrat from neighboring West Virginia, had read the intelligence estimate as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and had voted against the war resolution.
Rockefeller, who is now chairman of that committee, endorsed Obama on Friday and campaigned with him on Saturday.
Rockefeller called Obama “brilliant” and “well grounded” and prepared to take the reins as commander in chief.
Here is Rockefellers vote, note it is in the yea column, and here is the speech that he gave prior to the invasion :
Saddam Hussein represents a grave threat to the United States, and I have concluded we must use force to deal with him if all other means fail. That is the core issue, and whether we vote on it now, or in January, or in six months time, that is the issue we all have to confront.
War, if it comes to that, will cost money I dearly wish we could use for other domestic priorities, to address the very real needs that West Virginia and other states face in this tough economy. But ultimately, defending America’s citizens from danger is a responsibility whose costs we must bear.
As Ed points out, how does Obama make such a blunder? Does he not research what he says? Does he not have a staff to do this? Did he just prove that he needs speeches or he is lost in the information? That appears to be the case!
UPDATE: Obama’s campaign tries to spin this(2nd quote). Here is Obama’s blog reaction:
Despite the Clinton campaign’s claims, Barack Obama was clearly referring to Senator Graham, not Senator Rockefeller today
Obama spokeswoman Jennifer Psaki insisted that “there was nothing intentionally misleading” about Mr. Obama’s statement. The core issue, she said, was whether Mrs. Clinton made a correct and informed decision. “I don’t think the people in the audience care who Jay Rockefeller is,” she said.
So he is ignorant and has people speaking to the press that have no problem insulting his collegues that have pledged their time and vote?
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OOps…Obama once again inserts foot in mouth and shows his rhetoric doesn’t always match up with reality…but it’s all about change, you know…
Good Lord, did anybody read Post #1? If I saw anybody do that I would be clearing leather and putting a .40 calibre round through their head before they got a chance to finish what they started.
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Child shoots another child in the head- I wonder what the religion is?
Oh- that would be christianity in the USA- every day baby!