I gotta say, I was ready to let this whole brush up between Hillary and Obama go but Wolfson had to go and say something stupid like this:
Matthews: How would you describe [Sen. Clinton's] position in voting to authorize the war in Iraq believing we weren't going to war, that Bush really didn't intend to go to war. Was that naive?
Wolfson: Look, she's taken responsibility for the vote. She's been asked about this...
Mathews: Wouldn't you call that naive to believe...
Wolfson: No...
Matthews: ...that we're not going to war when everybody thought we were going to war? I thought we were going to war.
Wolfson: I guess 80 percent of the country was naive then.
Matthews: They didn't think Bush would take us to war?
Wolfson: I think people were, believed George Bush was going to do what he said he was going to do, which was to try diplomacy. And he didn't.
Matthews: Anybody who didn't think we were going to war, in the months leading up to the war in Iraq, wasn't paying attention.
My take below
Link at Pollster.com
I can't speak for anyone else at DailyKos but this is a slap in the face of the 1000s of us at this site who fought hard to stop the invasion of Iraq. I'm curious what Howard Dean or Wesley Clark think of this garbage.
Update:
The actual poll numbers from Pollster:
Which comes closer to your view about President Bush? [Rotate:] Bush has already decided to invade Iraq and has agreed to UN inspections mainly to gain international support for that action. OR, Bush has not yet decided whether to invade Iraq and has agreed to UN inspections mainly to determine if an invasion of Iraq were necessary.
58% - Bush has already decided to invade
38% - Bush has not yet decided whether to invade
4% - No opinion
With the stellar polling interpretation going on in the Hillary camp, there is no wonder why she thinks that her Iraq apology is not an issue.