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J.J. Jackson* | March 23, 2007
In what could be another great example of “do as I say not as I do” politics Obama is trying to continue to claim that despite voting to continue funding the war in Iraq he is actually against it. The attack is being lead by non other than Senatorette Hillary Clinton’s campaign.
[T]he Clinton camp, keenly aware of Obama’s surging popularity among Democrats, has gone on offense against his careful positioning on the war. The first signs of a new strategy trickled out late last week, when former President Clinton was quoted in a New York tabloid gossip column complaining that not enough attention had been paid to Obama’s Senate votes on Iraq.
At Harvard, Penn answered a question by bringing up Obama’s Senate record. He said Obama, like Clinton, has voted for spending bills to continue funding the war. And like Clinton, he opposed an amendment sponsored by Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry last year that would have set a July 1, 2007, deadline for withdrawing troops.
“When they got to the Senate, Senator Obama’s votes were exactly the same,” Penn said.
The claims provoked an immediate retort from the Obama campaign, which on Tuesday released a video and a detailed compilation of Obama’s public statements opposing the war since his debut on the national stage.
“On the most important issue of our time, both for the primary electorate and the country, Barack Obama got it right,” Obama spokesman Robert Gibbs said.
So let this right here. Obama has “gotten it right” by supporting the proliferation of the war but by verbally denouncing the very action that he supports with his votes?
John Kerry call you’re office! Obama is stealing your material!
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