The media have done a great job of ignoring Joe Liebermanโs recent opposition to his fellow Democratsโ calls for disengagement from Iraq. Now, as Ian Schwartz correctly notes, theyโve got another leading Democrat they have to ignore. From the Chicago Tribune (reg. req.):
In an interview with the Tribuneโs editorial board, Obama renewed his opposition to immediately pulling troops from Iraq. A growing number of Democrats and liberal groups have called for a troop withdrawal, while party leaders such as Sens. Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut and Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York have dismissed such efforts as dangerously misguided.
Obama also had some comments on the debate over pre-war intelligence:
โAt one town meeting someone said: โShouldnโt the president be impeached for lying?โโ Obama recalled. โAnd I said, โWell, FDR, JFK, LBJ โ we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so Iโd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration.โโ
Thereโs a hidden dig there โ the assumption that the President wasnโt โentirely forthcomingโ with intelligence information when everyone in the world had reached the same conclusions about Saddamโs WMDs. But hereโs a Democrat golden boy throwing water on two big Democrat talking points. Whereโs the coverage?






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