Obama, a leader in words only
By Creature
Barack Obama is confusing the fuck out of me. See, until this morning I was rah rahing Obama and his full frontal attack on Hillary for her Iran vote. A vote that exemplifies, once again, that she really doesn't understand that George Bush and Dick Cheney do not believe in using such votes as leverage. If we've learned anything over the last few years it's that Bush and Cheney believe Congressional support for belligerent action is an invitation to drop bombs, not an invitation for tea. So, today I find out that Obama is talking a good game, yet was absent for the actual Iran-as-threat vote that he is hitting Hillary over the head with. WTF? This is not leading. This is political cowardice and I am disappointed.
Update: Um, I guess, never mind with the whole disappointed and cowardice stuff. As pointed out to me in the comments our dear majority leader Harry Reid is to blame for Obama missing the vote. Now, maybe there's a bigger issue here of too much campaigning and not enough governing, but I will leave that aside for now. So, rah rah to you, Senator Obama, for keeping the heir to the presidency's feet to the fire. Hillary clearly does not understand that what we need now is less with the hawk and more with the talk.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
Barack Obama is confusing the fuck out of me. See, until this morning I was rah rahing Obama and his full frontal attack on Hillary for her Iran vote. A vote that exemplifies, once again, that she really doesn't understand that George Bush and Dick Cheney do not believe in using such votes as leverage. If we've learned anything over the last few years it's that Bush and Cheney believe Congressional support for belligerent action is an invitation to drop bombs, not an invitation for tea. So, today I find out that Obama is talking a good game, yet was absent for the actual Iran-as-threat vote that he is hitting Hillary over the head with. WTF? This is not leading. This is political cowardice and I am disappointed.
Update: Um, I guess, never mind with the whole disappointed and cowardice stuff. As pointed out to me in the comments our dear majority leader Harry Reid is to blame for Obama missing the vote. Now, maybe there's a bigger issue here of too much campaigning and not enough governing, but I will leave that aside for now. So, rah rah to you, Senator Obama, for keeping the heir to the presidency's feet to the fire. Hillary clearly does not understand that what we need now is less with the hawk and more with the talk.
(Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
Labels: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iran
posted by creature at
11:17 AM
2 Comments:
The reason he wasn't there was because Harry Reid said the night before that there would be no vote on that issue and Biden's resolution anytime soon. Obama went to New Hampshire the next day and was told there was a vote on the Kyle/Lieberman resolution an hour before the vote took place. Obviously, he wasn't going to get back in time.
He did issue a statement the same day stating his opposition to the resolution.
You can get the transcript from CSpan.org that shows Reid's comments the previous night.
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Anonymous, at 2:09 PM
Thanks for clearing that up and I have updated.
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creature, at 6:43 PM
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