Barack Obama in 2002, BEFORE THE IRAQ WAR!

"I don’t oppose all wars.

And I know that in this crowd today, there is no shortage of patriots, or of patriotism.

What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war. What I am opposed to is the cynical attempt by Richard Perles and Paul Wolfowitz and other arm-chair, weekend warriors in this Administration to shove their own ideological agendas down our throats, irrespective of the costs in lives lost and in hardships borne.

What I am opposed to is the attempt by political hacks like Karl Roves to distract us from a rise in the uninsured, a rise in the poverty rate, a drop in the median income to distract us from corporate scandals and a stock market that has just gone thru the worst month since the Great Depression.

That’s what Im opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."

Barack Obama had the courage and wisdom, in the wake of 9-11, to speak out against the Iraq War at a time when most of the country was behind Bush for his planned war. Too few politicians had the courage or wisdom to speak against this war. For all her claimed "experience", Hillary did not.

Bill and Hillary try to distort Obama's solid Iraq opposition by citing a 2004 interview in which Obama responded "I don't know" to a question involving the Democratic candidates who voted for the war and how he would have voted himself. The Clintons would like you to believe that Obama was flimsy and wavering in his opposition the the war...but look at what Obama says directly after:

He said he didn't know how he would have voted because he was not 'privy to the Senate intelligence reports that sitting senators saw,' and he added: 'What I know is that, from my vantage point, THE CASE WAS NOT MADE.'

Clearly, Obama was STILL OPPOSED TO THE WAR, and obviously, if Clinton dug up this quote from before Obama was on the national stage, Clinton had to have seen the enitre quote. So the real fairytale is the one Bill Clinton told about Obama...Or should we just call it like it is: A LIE! But what else can you expect from Bill Clinton. I tolerated his lie about Monica because it was his personal business, but I can't support this lie about a man who's views were rare back in 2002 and wasn't afraid to voice them. It took many years for other Democrats to catch up or speak out. JUDGEMENT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXPERIENCE. OBAMA WAS ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE TOUGHEST POLITICAL DECISION OF THE 21ST CENTURY TO DATE. ONE CAN HAVE ALL THE EXPERIENCE IN THE WORLD, BUT IF THEY MAKE THE WRONG JUDGEMENT, LIKE CLINTON, WHAT GOOD DOES THAT DO US?