Saturday, February 10, 2007

The contrasts could not be greater

Senator Barack Obama today in Springfield, Illinois, announcing his candidacy for president:
And when all else fails, when Katrina happens, or the death toll in Iraq mounts, we've been told that our crises are somebody else's fault. We're distracted from our real failures, and told to blame the other party, or gay people, or immigrants.

NY Times: In New Hampshire, Clinton refuses to denounce her war vote
While she tried to keep the audience of 300 people here focused on Mr. Bush’s war management, she was forced at one point to account for her own history on Iraq, as an audience member asked her to say plainly and “without nuance” that her Senate vote to use force in Iraq in 2002 was “a mistake.”

“Until we hear you say that, we’re not going to hear all these other great things you’ve said,” said the questioner, Roger Tilton of Nashua.

Mrs. Clinton has not been willing to go as far as some of her Democratic rivals, like former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina, and say that her 2002 vote was a mistake. And she did not do so on Saturday. Instead, she repeated her standard talking points about that vote, saying she would never have cast it if she had had the intelligence information in 2002 that she had now.

“I’ve taken responsibility for my vote,” Mrs. Clinton said. “The mistakes were made by this president.”

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