Fixed.

That’s not what most of them are saying. There’s some truth to the statement that sitting Senators are under different pressure than people criticizing them from the sidelines, and there’s no proof that Obama would have voted his conscience if given the chance.

That said, that’s an argument that you make if you want to be exceedingly charitable to the candidate who voted for the war. And I don’t see any reason to be charitable to Clinton in the slightest anymore. She voted wrong, she campaigned wrong, and she’s even being ungracious in defeat. She’s lost to Obama, she’s compromised her advantages over him in the general election (whatever the polls may say this week), and yet we still have to hear about her antics every goddamned day. I’m ashamed to have shaken her hand once, let alone voted for her twice.

Every one of those provisional spending bills contained a method of bringing troops home and ending the occupation. I would have voted or them too.

I’m thinking sometime in the middle of December.

I’ve only ever voted FOR presidential candiates, but Obama is the first one that I’ll vot for who has a decent chance of winning. I refuse to vote FOR an evil, even a lesser one. So most of my presidential votes have not gone to a nominee from one of the major parties. Only happened once before and that was 1992 when I gladly voted for Bill Clinton. Alas, not something I could do again in ‘96.

Here is video of Obama chatting with Dean about Iraq back in 2003 and Dean clearly says he is not for withdrawal but rather internationalization.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=jxwsdREgohY&feature=related

Quaker: LOL!

I’m a big fan of “The reality is..”, it makes almost anything possible. Thank you Taylor Marsh (and fafaroo).

The reality is, however, that though I’m not a doctor with any medical or science training, there is no evidence whatsoever that I won’t discover a cure for cancer while making French Toast in my kitchen. So I deserve federal funding.

Frankly, I think it’s best to ignore her. The less attention paid to her the better to squeeze out any hopes she has of making a bigger name for herself on the national scene.

Face it, Marsh wants to be another Ann Coulter. But as evil and twisted as Coulter is, Coulter is focused on the bottom lines: electing Republicans and making money. Coulter has kept her mouth shut and not attacked McCain as soon as it became apparent he would be the nominee. She looked at the long term view of her party and her pocketbook knowing not to become the source of damage to McCain.

Marsh continues to assault Obama. Recently, Marsh featured a cartoon of Obama as Marie Antoinette wearing a dress. The cartoon was both sexist and homophobic in that continued the lie that Marie Antoinette was a villain, that there is something wrong with femininity, and the implied attack on Obama’s masculinity.

“though Clinton voted for the war, there is no evidence whatsoever that Obama would have voted against the war in Iraq if he were a senator at the time”

Though Led Zeppelin recorded “Stairway to Heaven,” there is no evidence whatsoever that Buddy Holly would have recorded listenable music if he had survived that plane crash.

Though the Texas Rangers traded Sammy Sosa, there is no evidence whatsoever that the Chicago Cubs would have offered Babe Ruth a contract if he were alive at the time.

Though the Coca Cola company introduced a disasterous reformulation of its product, there is no evidence whatsoever that Pepsico could have created an elixir of perpetual youth.

Can you please email this post to Taylor Marsh? Her comment blows my mind. My mind is now falling off the ceiling in little gray/red jelly blobs.

I remember being very indignant about the “purse-strings” theory of Congressional war protest, but over time I’ve come to think: the truth is that ending the war is a two-part process. Congress can agree to stop funding it, but the Executive then has to agree that the operation is over and the troops are coming home.

Bush is so fully on tilt now that he would leave our troops over there with nothing but sticks and rocks just to prove his “conviction” to the cause.