This buisness is just getting comical:
WESTERVILLE, Ohio -FOX- [1]Clinton campaign officials have accused Democratic rival Barack Obama of making a ‘flub’ during an Ohio speech in which he described the Iraq war vote cast by a leading senator who endorsed him.
Obama criticized Clinton expressly for failing to read the classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s weapons capabilities, a report available at the time of her October 2002 vote authorizing the Iraq war.
He said that Sen. Jay Rockefeller, a fellow Democrat from neighboring West Virginia, had read the intelligence estimate as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee and after a brief pause said the then-chairman had voted against the war resolution.
However, Rockefeller was not the chair at the time and voted in favor of the war authorization. Sen. Bob Graham of Florida was the intelligence committee chair in 2002 and voted against the resolution. Obama did not mention Graham’s name in the passage.
“She didn’t read the National Intelligence Estimates. Jay Rockefeller read it. But she didn’t read it. (And after a 13-second pause) I don’t know what all that experience got her because I have enough experience to know that if you have a National Intelligence Estimate and the chairman of the national…umm…Senate Intelligence Committee says you should read this, this is why I’m voting against the war, that you should probably read it. I don’t know how much experience you need for that.”
Clinton campaign spokesman Phil Singer said in a statement to FOX News, “Sen. Obama is so desperate to divert attention from his limited national security experience that he’s not just misleading voters about Sen. Clinton, he’s also misleading voters about his own supporters. That is not change you can believe in.”
Well, look, gang… the real truth is, that neither one is qualified for the position. This is something they prove each and every time they open their mouths. Hillary’s “Daisy” ad aside, the person who answered the phone in the wee hours wasn’t Hillary, it was Bill, and that was bad enough, thank you very much. That Clinton doesn’t have any real experience to put on the table, is quite true, and yet Clinton is right that Obama doesn’t have any experience to put on the table, either.
These two beating each other up can do nothing but win the election for McCain.
Obama is MoveOn approved, and that’s why he’s winning. But it’s as I’ve been saying since 2000; The more the Democrats kowtow to MoveOn, and company, the more out of the mainstream and unelectable they are. This fight proves that point rather nicely.