"My objections to the war in Iraq were simply — not simply a speech. I was in the midst of a U.S. Senate campaign."

He is saying that the 2002 speech was not the whole of his objections to the war. He continued to object during the U.S. Senate campaign. Hillary's comment made it seem as if that speech was pretty much all he did. He is correcting that impression.

"He declined to man the barricades with Russ Feingold and the few Democrats who wanted to pull the plug immediately on Iraq. Nope. He voted like Hillary and Harry Reid and Joe Biden."

Really...? Hillary's whole argument has been that she didn't intend her original Iraq vote to be a vote for war, but a vote for GWB to have a stronger bargaining position. So somehow her votes since 2003 aren't votes for war, but Obama's is? That is nonsense.

Posted at March 2, 2008 7:10 PM in response to Why Can't Obama Get His Facts Right on Iraq?

I think this is a little bit of an overreaction. Dowd was pointing out that Hillary was intimately involved in the biggest sexual scandal in American history (she was the biggest victim, just to be clear). She also owes quite a lot of her success to her husband (even though she might have made it without him, in the real world, she didn't). It is fair to say that Hillary "is not the best test case for women," as a result of this. How about Nancy Pelosi, Kathleen Sebelius, Jennifer Granholm, Christine Gregoire, Condi Rice, etc. None of them would have any of the problems (regarding gender) Hillary is running into.

Posted at February 13, 2008 9:16 PM in response to Maureen Dowd's Internet Porn Candidate