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To: TopCat who wrote (353944)	10/6/2007 5:29:14 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1587766

"What amazes me is how you manage to get online every day." What amazes me is that you have posted nearly 74,000 times.....and not been correct yet. If I wasn't right many more times than I am wrong, you wouldn't bother to post to me as much as you do.

To: TopCat who wrote (353944)	10/6/2007 5:32:33 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1587766

Obama touts anti-war cred DEPAUL \| Kicks off tour 5 years after speech critical of going to Iraq October 3, 2007 BY ABDON M. PALLASCH Political Reporter apallasch@suntimes.com Five years to the day after White House hopeful Barack Obama made his now-famous speech against the Iraq war, he sought to capitalize on his anti-war credentials Tuesday with a tour that started in Chicago and leads to 11 Iowa cities. He is pledging to work toward a world without nukes; to send more U.S. citizens abroad in foreign service rather than soldiers' uniforms; to double foreign aid to $50 billion, and to declassify more government documents. Obama is using his speech at a 2002 Chicago anti-war rally to hammer -- not by name -- his main rivals for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.), and former Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). Clinton and Edwards voted to authorize the war days after Obama's 2002 speech. A Newsweek poll Saturday showed Obama slightly leading Clinton among likely Iowa caucus-goers, 28 percent to 24 percent, a statistical tie. Edwards had 22 percent. But Clinton, for the first time, raised more money than Obama in the third quarter. Ironically, Obama's 2002 speech went largely unnoticed at the time. No newspaper quoted him calling the war in Iraq a "dumb war." Only two newspapers, the Defender and the Daily Herald, even noted he attended the rally. But now the speech is a centerpiece of the campaign. "We need to ask those who voted for the war: how can you give the president a blank check and then act surprised when he cashes it?" Obama asked. Hundreds of DePaul University students cheered Obama more than a dozen times during Tuesday's speech, including when he promised to double foreign aid and when he pledged to seek "a world in which there are no nuclear weapons." But he immediately tempered that pledge, saying he would not "pursue unilateral disarmament. . . . As long as nuclear weapons exist, we'll retain a strong nuclear deterrent." He said he would work with Russia to "dramatically reduce the stockpiles of our nuclear weapons." Obama promised to make the Director of National Intelligence a fixed-term appointment to make the office less political. He vowed to open more American consulates around the world and deliver an annual "State of the World" speech. "We need to grow our foreign service," Obama said. "Instead of retreating from the world, I will personally lead a new chapter of American engagement." Ted Sorensen, who was an adviser to President John F. Kennedy 45 years ago, is introducing Obama at every stop. Like Kennedy, Obama is facing criticism that he lacks the experience to be president. But Sorensen argued that, like Kennedy, Obama has lived abroad, and that positions him better than his rivals to handle international affairs. "I don't see very well, but don't worry about my eyesight -- I've got better vision than the president of the United States," Sorensen said to cheers and laughter. John Edwards' spokeswoman Colleen Murray noted Edwards pledged to work for the elimination of nuclear weapons months ago and noted that Obama has voted to fund the war since coming to the U.S. Senate. suntimes.com