"Naive"

Senator Barack H. Obama is naive, and he proves it again with his most recent attack on America's Senator Hillary Clinton. You have to give him credit though, he and his people are good. Real good. It took them no time to dig up some dusty old piece of film and try to twist Senator Clinton's words to make it sound like she had flip-flopped on an issue as important as nuclear weapons. So I'd like to set the record straight.

First the back story from the Washington Post, the only daily worth reading in metro D.C., unless you're reading the Blade. So here goes:

Clinton Discussed Use of Nukes Last Year
By BETH FOUHY The Associated Press
Thursday, August 9, 2007; 6:42 PM
NEW YORK -- Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who
chastised rival Barack Obama for ruling out the use of nuclear
weapons in the war on terror, did just that when asked about Iran a year
ago.
"I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table," she said in
April 2006.
Her views expressed while she was gearing up for a presidential
run stand in conflict with her comments this month regarding Obama, who faced heavy
criticism from leaders of both parties, including Clinton, after saying it would
be "a profound
mistake" to deploy nuclear weapons in Afghanistan and
Pakistan.
"There's been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That's not on the
table," he said.

Clinton, who has tried to cast her rival as too inexperienced for the job of
commander in chief, said of Obama's stance on Pakistan: "I don't believe that any
president
should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or
non-use of nuclear
weapons."

But that's exactly what she did in an interview with Bloomberg Television in
April 2006. The New York senator was asked about reports that the Bush
administration was considering military intervention - possibly even a nuclear
strike - to prevent Iran from escalating its nuclear program.

"I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would
certainly take nuclear weapons off the table," Clinton said.

Okay, so maybe that sounds bad. But let's get a little perspective from Senator Clinton's campaign spokesman Phil Singer: "Given the saber-rattling that was coming from the Bush White House at the time, it was totally appropriate and necessary to respond to that report and call it the wrong policy."

Exactly. Am I going to have to come on this website everyday and remind you what you already know each time a question of Hillary's sincerity, ability, trustworthiness, experience, sexuality, etc. comes up?

I guess I'll just have to tell you again: it's George W. Bush's fault.