Many of you give Barack Obama a free pass on the Iraq War because of what he said about the war, at a time when he didn’t have to vote for or against it. We cannot overlay one time period over another but let’s see who he voted for once he was in the Senate, when he can’t hide behind a vote that never had to take place. Let’s see how he voted to confirm as Secretary of State, along with the president, along with the Republicans and along with those Democrats who did vote for the war.
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At the time of the Rice confirmation hearings, he could have blasted Rice, just as Barbara Boxer did, but he wascordial, polite, calm, not too troubled and what’s worst was that he was satisfied with Rice..you know like the kind of Senator who voted for the Iraq War...he gave in. He allowed a total loser to become Secretary of State. If he was so against the war and the Bush policies there was a lot he could have said and he could have voted a strong NO against confirmation. Would any of you want Harold Ford as president, with the anger he showed for Dems who voted no to confirm Rice and his desire to be in the gang of 16? There are Republicans I’d vote for before I’d vote for Ford. I hope Obama doesn't turn out to be another Ford, or Breaux or Landrieu or Ben Nelson, or Lieberman, or Pryor
Senator Obama, don't you need to say that your voting to confirm Condoleezza Rice for Secretary of State and your decision to not filibuster the Alito confirmation were mistakes?
So we have that vote to confirm one of the chief liars of the Bush Administration and one of the key liars about Iraq and here in Obama there was that lack of significant questioning when it really mattered. I am sick and tired of these people who want to separate themselves from Washington, for election purposes, like Obama and McCain. What he says now is not good enough to put all our eggs in the basket of this 2 year Senator whose only election success was against Alan Keyes in a Democratic State. Please, think hard before you’re ready to throw all your support to Obama. Would you have confirmed Rice? Would you have filibustered Alito?
Some National Security Advisor I couldn't predict it but she should have been prepared for it.
I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile.
May 16, 2002
outright Lies
There will always be some uncertainty about how quickly [Saddam Hussein] can acquire nuclear weapons. But we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.
September 2002
This doesn't qualify someone to be head of the State Department
Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.
We do need to remind everybody that tyrants don't respond to any kind of appeasement. Tyrants don't respond to negotiation. Tyrants respond to toughness. And that was true in the 1930s and 1940s when we failed to respond to tyranny, and it is true today.
February 2003
Goebbels Techniques - The Big Lie
The truth of the matter is that repeated directors of central intelligence, repeated reports by intelligence agencies around the world, repeated reports by United Nations inspectors asking hard questions of Saddam Hussein, and tremendous efforts by this regime to conceal and hide what it was doing, clearly give a picture of a regime that had weapons of mass destruction and was determined to conceal them.
June 2003
Maybe if she was good at her job, there could been a greater chance to stop it...Remember the Aug 6th PDB
There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it.
April 2004
She buys and whores out Bush fuzzy logoc
It's just nonsense to say that because we've confronted it [the terrorist threat], we've created more of it. Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?
October 2004
So, do you ignore what he actually did and go with what you think he might have done? Guys, he's not proven and he's not ready. Maybe as VP but not President, not yet!