[lbo-talk] Dept. of WTF: Protesters demand Hillary iron their shirts

[Matt]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:58:14AM -0800, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:


> [Ws:] I am not an "Obama fan" - but I do think that he
> is likely to be somewhat less servile to corporate
> interests than the rest of the pack.  Not voting for
> the war on Iraq, whereas Clinton & Edwards did,
> suggests that he may be more willing to resist
> "barking with the pack."  Not that he will go on a

When the Senate voted on the Authorization to use the US Armed Forces
against Iraq - H.J.Res. 114 - Obama was a state Senator in Illinois.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=107&session=2&vote=00237

So saying "not voting for the war...whereas Clinton & Edwards did"
implies he was part of the same government at the time, and he wasn't.

While the US Senate was voting in 2002 to invade Iraq I held a little
vote with my friends at our local brew pub and I voted against it,
which carried as much weight as what Obama would have been voting in
at the time.  :)

Matt

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