This is the "Slick Willie Demorat" way to squirm out of it....
Indecision 2008--III
Blogger Nitin Julka points to another choice bit in the John Edwards "Meet the Press" interview we noted yesterday. This exchange begins
with a clip of Tim Russert's Oct. 10, 2004, interview with Edwards:
Russert: If you knew today, and you do know, there is--there are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, would you still vote to go to war with Iraq?
Edwards: I would have voted for the resolution, knowing what I know today, because it was the right thing to do to give the president the authority to confront Saddam Hussein.
I think Saddam Hussein was a very serious threat. I stand by that, and that's why we stand behind our vote on the resolution.
Fast-forward to this past Sunday:
Russert: That's a year and a half into the war.
Edwards: Mm-hmm. Perfect--that's a very fair question. I can tell you what happened with me, personally. We got through--I was--at that point, I was in the middle of a very intense campaign, one that I thought was very important for America. When the campaign was over and the election was over, we had a lot going on in my own family. Elizabeth had been diagnosed with breast cancer, we were taking care of her. And for the first time I had time to really think about, number one, what I was going to spend my time doing, and, number two, my vote for this war.
Edwards publicly renounced his vote in a Nov. 13, 2005, op-ed piece in the Washington Post, in which he observed that "the foundation for moral leadership is telling the truth." Well, that definitely means he's sincere, right? Anyway, here's the Edwards timeline:
* October 2002. Votes in favor of the war.
* October 2004. Defends his vote in favor of the war.
* November 2004. Loses election for vice president.
* Sometime between November 2004 and November 2005. "Really" thinks about his vote "for the first time."
* November 2005. Renounces his vote.
Wouldn't it have been better if he'd thought about his vote before he cast it? Granted, he was only a senator, and his vote was far from decisive. But can America afford to have a president who acts before he thinks?
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