Bernie Sanders
Related: About this forumIn Debate Preview, Bernie Sanders Criticizes Hillary Clinton for Iraq Vote
If there was any question about how Senator Bernie Sanders would go after Hillary Rodham Clinton in the first Democratic presidential primary debate on Tuesday evening, it was answered on Saturday in the form of a press release attacking his rivals vote authorizing the Iraq War.
With a headline Sanders Foreign Policy Experience, the press release focuses entirely on Mr. Sanders opposition to the Iraq war when he was a congressman from Vermont.
Mrs. Clintons vote in 2002 authorizing the use of force of Iraq, which then-President George W. Bush sought, became a defining issue in her 2008 presidential primary against then-Senator Barack Obama. Mr. Obama used that vote to raise questions about Mrs. Clintons judgment and her character.
Mrs. Clinton never explicitly called that vote a mistake during that primary, despite pleas from some of her advisers to do just that. Instead, she moved away from it slowly, ultimately saying that had she known then what she later knew, she wouldnt have voted that way.
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merrily
(45,251 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)But then the rest of the time her foreign policy exposure will make her look presidential compared to a senator with zero foreign policy.
merrily
(45,251 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)frylock
(34,825 posts)daleanime
(17,796 posts)then be right. But I know we're going to disagree.