It does take a certain level of political chutzpah to attack someone else on a vote that you yourself didn’t make.

But the deciding factor will come down to the simple fact that the country is in such a mess that the people will not take a chance on someone with such a thin resume of experience at the national level coupled with his lack of any significant executive experience.

Dear Blub; sucking up to Lieberman and FauxNews and Rupert Murdoch, and vowing to do rehab on Colin Powell, is NOT seeking the “middle road”.

It’s giving prostate-gland tongue massages to the bastards who’ve created the worst foreign-policy fuckup in our history. (With Clinton’s unapologetic help…)

I just don’t understand why any Dem would want their president to cozy up to any Repub, whether Colin Powell or otherwise.

Why does Obama repeat Right-wing talking points? Does he really believe the things they do?

I want a Democrat from the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

I want a nominee who will pledge to give us all health care and to end the steady stream of dead American soldiers coming back from Iraq.

Obama doesn’t offer full medical coverage.
Hillary says we should ‘plan for the next war’ and labels part of the Iranian military as a ‘terrorist organization’.

Surely their supporters can find better choices in Edwards, Dodd, Biden or Richardson.

It seems Obama found that his absence and failure to vote for the KL Resolution politically expedient for an attack. But he has never explained clearly why he supported S.970 and opposed the KL resolution. In fact, the latter had an amendment which specified that it could not, under any circumstances be construed as authorizing a military attack on Iran.

And, although he no longer serves in the Senate, John Edwards has also firmly stated many times that Iran is “the World’s Greatest State Sponsor of Terrorism” and that the Iranian military has funded, armed and trained terrorists in Syria, Lebanon and Israel. These comments were not in some veiled private slips, but in major policy speeches to groups like A*P*C and the Herzliya Institute, also attended by high ranking Bush Administration officials. These statements would undercut Edward’s ability to speak out against any “preemptive” strike by Bush as he has essentially stated that he would take “nothing off the table” to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons.

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/011299.php

Except that there’s a bit of historical revisionism happening here. One, Reid announced the scheduled vote mere hours before it was held, the day after canceling it the night before and claiming it would not come up again that week. That’s why McCain, who would have been very happy to vote for such an amendment, missed it as well.

Obama’s campaign issued a “NO” statement within hours of the vote (see Politico for Sept 26), on the 26th. The idea that issuing a “NO” statement on a resolution that more Democrats voted for than against is somehow putting a finger into the air to choose the prevailing wind is cynical in the extreme, and is very disappointing for someone like Jane. It’s hard to think of Jane as uninformed, so I suspect some partisan black ops here. It’s simply not an honest take if you review the media from Sept 25-26.

you obviously don’t know us very well here… so i’ll cut you some slack.

reid did not announce the vote an hour in advance – that was the UC request for the vote – and reid announced the amendment at the start of the day when he gave his morning schedule briefing as he almost always does.. and it’s clear from reading the congressional record and watching the video from the previous day that everyone knew the vote was coming up as soon as possible the next morning – since one of the amendments was his (and he had to get to the debate too).

please give me a link for your assertion that reid claimed the amendment “would not come up again that week” – because that’s just the opposite of what happened.

here are my links : one, two

i think someone is feeding you misinformation – and personally i’d like to know who your source is. are you willing to share?

Google “kyl lieberman sept 25″. You’ll find several articles to indicate that not only was the vote scheduled for Tuesday, not Wednesday, but Obama showed up to vote for it.

If he was supposedly avoiding the vote for political reasons, why would he show up the first time?

The partisan spin on this doesn’t hold water. And without water, there’s no coming clean, bloggies.

when did obama leave dc for nh? (at what time on wednesday?)

Is every issue covered on his web site. Didn’t think so.

So we can just make up any charge and throw it and hope it sticks. Got it.