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Obama's Revisionist History on Iraq Doesn't End
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... notes that Obama's speech itself shows no indication
that he struggled with the decision or even considered supporters
of the war to be acting in good faith. (I've
discussed previously why Obama's speech also trafficked in
anti-Semitism). ...
POLITICS: Obama's Revisionist History on Iraq And WMD
Baseball Crank —
... notes that Obama's speech itself shows no indication that he struggled with the decision or even considered supporters of the war to be acting in good faith. (I've discussed previously why Obama's speech also trafficked in anti-Semitism). ...
POLITICS: Palin's Night
Baseball Crank —
... are now negotiating," when Obama's plan called for complete withdrawal by March 2008; confusing a windfall profits tax with a severance tax; claiming, absurdly, that McCain was voting to cut off funding for the Iraq War when he voted against an amendment to a funding bill. And when Biden said, "[t]hat's the fundamental change Barack Obama and I will be bring to this party, not questioning other people's motives," well, he must not have read Obama's 2002 war speech, in which Obama did just that as the centerpiece of his argument: ...
Obama and the Integrity Gap: "New Politics," Principled Positions, and Conclusion
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... And
his 2002 speech pandered to that view, even pressing some decidedly
anti-Semitic notes. Of course, after giving that one speech,
Obama basically disappeared from the war debate without a trace; if
you were listing the nation's loudest voices against the war in
2002 and 2003, you'd run through thousands of names before you
reached Obama. ...
Obama and the Integrity Gap: The Extremists
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... Khalidi is hardly Obama's only tie to people and groups who take
a hardline pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli view. More recently at his
side was his presidential campaign's former senior foreign policy
adviser
Samantha Power. (Note the ...
POLITICS: Leave Barack Alone!1!1!1!
Baseball Crank —
... You would almost think, from reading this, that Obama really did just get there. Not that he'd been a United States Senator the last four years (granted, he's been out of town campaigning for half that), doing things like voting against (and voting to filibuster) highly qualified Supreme Court nominees on the basis of ideology. Not that he'd refused to concede even the possibility of good faith on the part of supporters of the Iraq War, giving a speech blaming the war on a cabal of Jews and on political schemes by Karl Rove. To say nothing of the vats of acid spewed by the ...
