Control Congress is a multi-partisan, issue-oriented political forum that brings together the Left, Right, and everyone in between.

Obama: Clinton Is “Rewriting History”

Watch Hillary defend herself on Meet The Press!

HP-This morning on Meet the Press, Hillary Clinton defended her 2002 vote for the Iraq war resolution, saying that she “thought it was a vote to put inspectors back in” so Saddam Hussein could not go unchecked. She insisted that she and others were “told by the White House personally” that this was the purpose of the resolution, and cited President Bush’s assurances to defend her position.

Moderator Tim Russert pointed out that the title of the resolution was the “Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 2002.” Clinton responded saying, “We can have this Jesuitical argument about what exactly was meant. But when Chuck Hagel, who helped to draft the resolution said, ‘It was not a vote for war,’ What I was told directly by the White House in response to my question, ‘If you are given this authority, will you put the inspectors in and permit them to finish their job,’ I was told that’s exactly what we intended to do. “

WATCH MORE

Posted by JohnKonop on Monday, January 14th, 2008 at 1:39 am | under Uncategorized | |RSS 2.0 feed | Comments and pings closed. |

4 Responses to “Obama: Clinton Is “Rewriting History””

  1. JohnKonop Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

    Hillary Clinton attacks Barack Obama

    FROM POLITICO

    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” today that the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) was “deliberately distorting” remarks she had made about the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

    “This is, you know, a, a — an unfortunate story line that the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully,” she said. “They’ve been putting out talking points. They’ve been making this — they’ve been telling people, in a very selective way, what the facts are.”

    Clinton burst out laughing when moderator Tim Russert reiterated her phrase “vast right-wing conspiracy” and asked if it still exists.

    “Oh, I don’t know,” she said. “I haven’t paid much attention to it for about 10 years. I really don’t have any idea. … I’m just too busy to worry about that.”

    READ MORE

  2. JohnKonop Says:
    January 13th, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    Obama And Clinton Go Toe-To-Toe On Iraq

    HP-Less than a week before the decisive Nevada Democratic presidential caucuses, the political battle over Iraq dramatically erupted on Sunday when the Hillary Clinton campaign launched a multi-pronged attack challenging the consistency of rival Barack Obama’s record on the war.

    The Obama campaign quickly countered that Clinton was stooping to tactics comparable to those employed by right-wing pressure groups against previous Democratic candidates.

    Much like the conflict in Iraq itself, the political clashing between the two front-running campaigns quickly escalated into a prolonged guerrilla war of charges, counter-charges and counter-counter-charges.

    “The argument that somehow Sen. Obama has shown unique judgment in the case of Iraq is belied by the record in which he showed identical support for Iraq War funding as Sen. Clinton,” Jamie Rubin, a Clinton-era State Department official now supporting Hillary Clinton, told reporters in a hastily-called conference call. Rubin said Obama’s earlier anti-war statements while he was a state Senator in Illinois were not supported by the votes he took once he arrived in Washington.” There is nothing unique or special or wise about Sen. Obama’s position on the Iraq War,” Rubin said.

    READ MORE

  3. beth Says:
    January 14th, 2008 at 10:03 am

    This has got to be the most disengenuous person on the face of the earth today. She is running to beat the glass ceiling HAHAHAH She has 35 yrs experience? At WHAT????
    She has NEVER told the truth about any thing SHe has never done an ethical thing in her life

  4. Bill Says:
    January 15th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

    I don’t think she’ll ever get out of the shadow of “slick Willie”. And frankly I would love to see a female American President. Someone like Devvy Kidd for example. And I have no idea who her husband is. I’m sure he’s a great guy. Perhaps a pipe welder or something.