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No Retreat: If you Want to Win, Stop the War! Barack at Risk »

Posted by: MyWayOnNow 2 months ago

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Tom Hayden: Call him slippery or nuanced, Barack Obama's core position on Iraq has always been more ambiguous than audacious. Now it is catching up with him as his latest remarks are questioned by the Republicans, the mainstream media, and the antiwar movement. He could put his candidacy at risk if his audacity continues to shrivel.

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  rimbaud2 months ago
  
  ...Not as much as John McCain.
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    JoseMadre2 months ago
    
    More than McCain. McCain's switch on drilling was the result of an almost TRIPLING of the price of gasoline. "Against the War" was THE cornerstone of Obama's entire campaign. If he backs down on this, the anti-war crowd will rightly bail on him, dooming his campaign. Seriously, if he backs off on this, what will his campaign be? "I'm the guy with so little experience that I change my core beliefs in the middle of the campaign?"
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aniokly2 months ago

Fonda's ex is right. Obama will lose many more votes if he changes his stance against the Iraq war then he would ever garner from people who already know he would retreat in defeat no matter what he is saying now.
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Spinward2 months ago

CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN!
It sounds good as long as you stay away from specifics.
The problem with Obama is that he cannot avoid them for long and he knows it. That's why "Anytime, anywhere" debates morphed into one debate on the night of July 4th. He knows that in a debate, he will have to make substantive statements... and that spells the beginning of the end.
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bluenote15222 months ago

I've said it for months, he's not going to withdraw. Look at Pelosi and company. They got elected by a naive, gullible segment of society that is all emotion and no intellect. Things in the mirror may be dumber than they appear.
Withdrawal is not a simple solution. A portion of the electorate may think it is but in truth it is not. So hold your breath and turn blue but it will not change the reality. Obama's new slogan "Change...............every fifteen minutes or so"!
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bluenote15222 months ago

Or how about this as a slogan for Obama..."A Change we can deceive in"!
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