Does Senator Obama support designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist organization?

This is a simple factual question with a simple factual answer.

Senator Obama has been a consistent supporter of designating the IRG a terrorist organization. He co-sponsored legislation containing the first use of the specific Kyl/Lieberman language calling on the State Department to make that designation.

When Condi Rice announced State had made the formal designation, Senator Obama put out a statement approving of the designation.

When Obama criticizes Hillary for Kyl/Lieberman (which he did not vote against... no show) he takes pains to criticize K/L for reasons OTHER THAN the IRG designation, because he supported (and supports) the IRG designation.

His official position on the matter is that he supports it.

Given all that... Does Senator Obama support designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard a Terrorist organization?

veiled reference to with 70+ cosponsors never made it out of committee. Kyl-Lieberman was in Jim Webb's words "Cheney's wet dream" which is why everyone EXCEPT Hillary opposed it.

Nice try trying to mitigate Hillary's YES vote, however, YES votes on matters of war resonate a whole hell of a lot louder than ideas.

Obviously no because he didn't support the yes vote on Kyl-Lieberman.

He really should have voted nay if he wanted to criticize others.

He's been attacked for not voting soon enough, for not fighting strongly before voting, for voting as strategy, etc etc. It wouldn't have mattered whether he voted or not. You can think, and see the clear differences between the two Iran bills, or follow the sheepherders. It's up to you.

You cede the high ground when you don't vote and then criticize someone else for their vote.

There is no mystery... his stated position is supporting the IRG designation. That's not reading between the lines or divining his intentions, it's his official position.

"What time is it?"

The new sanctions target Iran's Revolutionary Guard, its Quds force and a number of Iranian banks and people the U.S. accuses of backing nuclear proliferation and terror-related activities.

"It is important to have tough sanctions on Iran, particularly on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, which supports terrorism," Barack Obama said. "But these sanctions must not be linked to any attempt to keep our troops in Iraq, or to take military action against Iran." The senator from Illinois added that "unfortunately, the Kyl-Lieberman amendment made the case for President Bush that we need to use our military presence in Iraq to counter Iran -- a case that has nothing to do with sanctioning the Revolutionary Guard."

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:xaVt9u_L4q0J:www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/10/25/iran.campaign/+obama+iranian+revolutionary+guard+terrorist+condoleezza+rice&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

it would seem so.

He states it, but almost half of people believe him.

It's Obama-nation in a nutshell... Obama is a Rorschach blot. "He supports whatever I support, thinks whatever I think."

Nothing he says can be wrong. If it's wrong, he didn't say it

Not that it's our place - or diplomaticly smart - to officially declare it one way or another. But are they "evilduers"?

Go through the thread, There isn't one Obama supporter around to defend him

All they can do is attack Clinton. They don't even TRY to defend Obama

positive... we have more to lose by not doing whatever necessary to ensure that he defeats Hillary.

I guess there's nothing to defend

I am not attacking him. I don't have a big problem with his position. Some do, but I don't.

The problem is that some Obama supporters STILL cite the IRG designation as a difference between Obama and Clinton, even though the two have the same position on the matter. I can only assume that they are convinced that Obama opposes the IRG designation (despite his consistent support of it) because they oppose it, and cannot imagine that Obama doesn't agree with them about everything.

(intellectual honesty kudos to katzenkavalier for consistently recognizing that Obama does not object to the IRG designation component of Kyl/Lieberman.)

That's my point. It's well known that Obama supporters have attacked Clinton over this issue, but Obama supporters get real quiet when it comes to Obama co-sponsoring S970