Re: obarmy radically changes his stance on iran to get closer to the bush position.....

FACE <AFaceInTheCrowd@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> used a stick in the sand to babble
>http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/article/29896_Obama_Changes_His_Unconditional_Position
>Obama Changes His 'Unconditional' Position - Update: Video Added
>
>Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:02:40 pm PST
>
>In yet another New York Times advocacy piece for Barack Obama, we
discover
>that the Obama campaign is trying to rewrite history again.
>
>    Susan E. Rice, a former State Department and National Security
Council
>official who is a foreign policy adviser to the Democratic candidate,
said
>that “for political purposes, Senator Obama’s opponents on the right have
>distorted and reframed” his views. Mr. McCain and his surrogates have
>repeatedly stated that Mr. Obama would be willing to meet
“unconditionally”
>with Mr. Ahmadinejad. But Dr. Rice said that this was not the case for
Iran
>or any other so-called “rogue” state. Mr. Obama believes “that engagement
at
>the presidential level, at the appropriate time and with the appropriate
>preparation, can be used to leverage the change we need,” Dr. Rice said.
>“But nobody said he would initiate contacts at the presidential level;
that
>requires due preparation and advance work.”
>
>The problem is, Barack Obama did say he’d meet with Iran unconditionally,
in
>front of a lot of people, at the CNN/YouTube Democratic debate last July.

But the real problem is that this is being twisted to appeasement.

Swill
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