US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
speaks to reporters at a hotel in Los Angeles February 1, 2008.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
Posted on 02/01/2008 10:05:25 AM PST by NormsRevenge
LOS ANGELES - Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a leading anti-war group Friday and said Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton still has not adequately explained her vote to go into Iraq.
Obama told reporters in a news conference that, even though Clinton explains how she would like to end the war, her explanation for her vote leading into the war is disingenuous. He said his opposition against the war from the start will make him the stronger rival to Republican front-runner and war backer John McCain in the general election.
Obama's long-standing opposition to the war helped him pick up the backing of MoveOn.org, a liberal network which counts 3.2 million members and decided to back him by a vote of 70 percent to 30 percent for Clinton. The group said Friday that it has 1.7 million members in the 22 states scheduled to vote in the race Tuesday, and it would immediately begin a campaign to get them behind Obama.
MoveOn.org executive director Eli Pariser said the country needs a president to end the war, provide universal health care, address climate change, restore America's standing in the world and "change business as usual in Washington." In his statement, Pariser thanked all the other candidates who ran in the Democratic primary for their contributions to the race, but left Clinton off the list.
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MoveOn.org ENDORSE OBAMA - dump Hillary
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NBC News ^ | February 01, 2008 | Domenico Montanaro
Posted on 02/01/2008 9:06:12 AM PST by rface
MoveOn.org PAC and the California SEIU will endorse Obama.
US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama
speaks to reporters at a hotel in Los Angeles February 1, 2008.
REUTERS/Jason Reed
what exactly would he change??
well, Hillary still has not placated the anti-war moon bat people has she?
I thought it was common knowledge that Hillary voted in favor of the Iraq war resolution to prove to us how rough and tough she was, and that she would not be afraid to use military force if she ever were elected president. Poor Hillary, her liberal / socialist / radicalist / anarchist image has followed her around so long, so she had to prove she is man enough to be president somehow.
I’ve even heard one conservative talk show dude say he thought Hillary had (certain male parts). That while he disagreed with her on almost all issues, he thought she was tough enough to be president.
Let’s not forget that MoveOn.org was created to protect Slick Willy from impeachment (”let’s forget his crime and move on.”)
That they are turning their back on the Clinton machine cannot be overlooked.
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SEIU says Obama as well.
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LOS ANGELES - Barack Obama picked up the endorsement of a leading anti-war group Friday and said Democratic presidential rival Hillary Rodham Clinton still has not adequately explained her vote to go into Iraq.
Obama told reporters in a news conference that, even though Clinton explains how she would like to end the war, her explanation for her vote leading into the war is disingenuous. He said his opposition against the war from the start will make him the stronger rival to Republican front-runner and war backer John McCain in the general election.
Obama’s long-standing opposition to the war helped him pick up the backing of MoveOn.org, a liberal network which counts 3.2 million members and decided to back him by a vote of 70 percent to 30 percent for Clinton. The group said Friday that it has 1.7 million members in the 22 states scheduled to vote in the race Tuesday, and it would immediately begin a campaign to get them behind Obama.
Obama also picked up the support of a large union in California which had been backing rival John Edwards, who dropped out of the race this week.
MoveOn.org executive director Eli Pariser said the country needs a president to end the war, provide universal health care, address climate change, restore America’s standing in the world and “change business as usual in Washington.” In his statement, Pariser thanked all the other candidates who ran in the Democratic primary for their contributions to the race, but left Clinton off the list.
Obama criticized Clinton’s answer during a debate Thursday night when she was asked why she voted against a 2003 amendment offered by Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. The amendment would have given weapons inspectors more time in Iraq and required President Bush to first obtain U.N. approval before using force. Clinton argued that a vote for the Levin amendment would have subordinated U.S. authority in Iraq to the U.N. Security Council and called it a troublesome precedent.
She reiterated her explanation of the 2002 vote to give President Bush authority to use military force to oust Saddam Hussein. But she added, “If I had known then what I know now, I never would have given President Bush the authority. It was a sincere vote based on my assessment at the time and what I believed he would do with the authority he was given. He abused that authority; he misused that authority.”
She declined to say the vote was a mistake. Obama criticized her explanation in his news conference, the third he’s held this week leading into the Super Tuesday contests. Clinton holds a lead in the polling in most of those states.
“I think there continues to be a suggestion that it was not a vote for war, and I thought that her explanation with respect to the Levin amendment was inaccurate,” Obama said. “Anyone who looks at the Levin amendment knows that we were not ceding sovereignty in some fashion to the United Nations.”
In Sacramento, one of California’s largest unions, the Service Employees International Union, decided to throw its support to Obama, spokeswoman Jeanine Meyer Rodriguez told The Associated Press.
The president of the state council, Annelle Grajeda, was to formally announce the endorsement in a statement later Friday.
The 650,000-member union’s backing could help Obama cut into Clinton’s lead in California polls of Democratic base voters, many of whom are union members. The SEIU includes city, county and state workers, as well as in-home support and health care workers.
Union officials will urge their members to vote for Obama but do not plan to do a wider get-out-the-vote effort.
Sounds like Barack is in Soro’s pocket now!!
Obama’s been MoveOn.org’s baby for awhile now, he is the most palatable left wing loon out there...aimed at halting the successful war on terror
President? did she say she wanted to be President? She meant Dictator. Honest mistake
I think I just heard Hil’s broomstick crack a bit..
We’ll see where loyalty’s lie now.. lol
I found this endorsement puzzling. Obama didn’t seem as hateful as Hillary. Now one group is going to infect the other....will Obama’s sophism win, or will Move-on’s hatred?
Et tu, MoveOn? Each one of these endorsements must send Billary into a drooling rage; an endearing image.
Sounds like Barack is in Soro’s pocket now!!
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He’s a wealthy man.
He has a few horses in this race, imo.
His obsession and major flaw is politics. He makes Buffett look cheap in that arena...
Moveon.org is not an anti-war group. They loved Clinton’s wars.
Moveon.org formed to protect Bill Clinton from impeachment.
They are socialists who were at one time quite public about their socialist agenda.
The media never calls such organizations “left wing”, they are “peace organization” or “antiwar organization.
They are nothing of the sort and the lying liars in the media know this.
If anything, it is puzzling to see Clinton cronies endorse Obama.
Obambi voted agsint the war for two reasons: (1) It was a Republican Administration that called for the war; (2) the war was against a moslem country.
Put Soros in the park. Permanently. You know what I ()*&%^% mean!
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