Obama: Time for a change
May 4, 2008
The choice between Sen. Obama and Hillary Clinton is not easy. She is indeed ready to be president on day one. After two terms with her husband in the White House and almost eight years in the Senate, she knows how things work. Smart and tenacious, she offers a progressive agenda. There are many reasons to think she’d be a good president.
There are arguments against her as well. For example, many Democrats won’t forgive her for voting to authorize President Bush to use force against Iraq. We don’t fault her on that. She understood the need for firmness to force Saddam Hussein to admit UN inspectors to ensure Iraq wasn’t building weapons of mass destruction. She received assurances that force would be used only as a last resort. She isn’t responsible for the debacle in Iraq; President Bush is.

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