Elizabeth Edwards: Saying what I've been saying all along on Obama

Elizabeth Edwards is someone who I do admire at times, and at other times wish she would shut-up and let her husband run his own campaign. But in the August issue of Progressive Magazine, Mrs. Edwards says something I truly do agree with; in fact it is something I've said for a long long time. Mrs. Edwards writes:

"Obama gives a speech that's likely to be extraordinarily popular in his home district, and then comes to the Senate and votes for funding... so you are going to get people behaving in a holier-than-thou way."

This was Mrs. Edwards of course addressing Sen. Obama's claim to fame which is that unlike the others running, he(Obama) was always against the Iraq War. Well its a good argument, except Obama wasn't even in the U.S. Senate at the time of the Iraq War vote. In fact the only time he's on record saying he was against this war was a statement which he made while in the Illinois State Legislature. As Mrs. Edwards points out, it doesn't take much gut to go out and pander to an anti-war crowd. Obama wasn't in the U.S. Senate, he didn't have the President up in his face, lying to him, telling him a list of reasons why we needed to go to war. I believe that if Iraq did in fact have WMDs and terrorists were in Iraq, planning future attacks on the U.S., then we absolutely had a duty to go into Iraq, and that was the exact proof presented to Congress by Bush. The Congress voted the right way given the information they were given, the only problem was that all the information were lies. And then if Obama was truly against the war when he got elected to Congress, and he had the chance to make a difference, he continually voted to fund the war. Why was it Hillary Clinton, not Obama who asked the Pentagon for withdrawal plans, if Obama truly wanted to get out of Iraq. There's a lack of consistency on Obama's part. Its easy to say something, but something totally different to act on it. And Obama has yet to act.