It looks like Big Dawg is steaming mad because the NY Times is not aggressively going after Obama about a quote of his on the war, and in not doing so, the paper is giving preferential treatment to the Junior Senator from Illinois. I guess he did not read the NYT's hit piece on Obama's stock buys.
"He quoted Obama as saying in some other newspaper a couple years ago that he didn't know how he would have voted. He also said that Obama had said at some point in 2006 that there was very little difference between his position and Bush's position on Iraq. He said that The Times had not reported these comments prominently. It was like two minutes on how Obama was getting a free ride while the paper pursued the Hillary-should-apologize storyline...He was just upset about it. He was passionate."
The good people at TPM have found the Obama quote the former President was referring to:
In a recent interview, he declined to criticize Senators Kerry and Edwards for voting to authorize the war, although he said he would not have done the same based on the information he had at the time.
''But, I'm not privy to Senate intelligence reports,'' Mr. Obama said. ''What would I have done? I don't know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.''
But Mr. Obama said he did fault Democratic leaders for failing to ask enough tough questions of the Bush administration to force it to prove its case for war. ''What I don't think was appropriate was the degree to which Congress gave the president a pass on this,'' he said.
A message to the former president, not everyone who had access to the intelligence reports voted for the war. A perfect example is Bob Graham, the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during 9/11, who had access to the intelligence used for going to war - voted against IWR.
The Clintons are running scared -- they see a candidate that is drawing huge crowds and raising money at their backyard and Hollywood. The Clintons are not as invincible as they thought.
As always, Team Obama responded with this statement:
In 2002, I opposed giving President Bush the authority to invade Iraq, and said that a war based not on principle but on politics would lead to a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I wish those words had never come true, but I have stood by them since that day and continue to today.
Barack Obama was not in the Senate and did not authorize this war, but he opposed it throughout his campaign for the US Senate and drew many anti-war voters to support his candidacy that led him to victory.