October 12, 2007
Dems Ratchet Up Rhetoric On Iran
White House Democrats continued to skirmish 10/12 over Iran:
---In Atlanta, where she received the endorsement of Rep. John Lewis, Hillary Clinton said her statement 10/11 in New Hampshire that the United States should negotiate with Iran was not the same as saying the U.S. president should meet with the country's leader.
Rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards have pounced on what they have called a flip-flop on this issue.
"What I have been saying for a long time is that the United States of America should negotiate with Iran," Clinton said. "That's a very big difference between setting up a structure for diplomatic negotiations than saying that as president, any president, would meet with dictators of countries like that in the first year personally without preconditions," she said, referring to Obama's statement in a July debate that he would meet personally with the leaders of Iran and other countries in his first year.
Clinton reiterated that her vote to call Iran's army a terrorist organization was in no way meant to lay the foundation for a later attack on the country, but to apply diplomatic pressure to the country. [ATHENA JONES]
--In Iowa, Joe Biden responded to a question about Hillary Clinton's vote for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment by criticizing both Clinton and Obama. Biden: "I think from my perspective it was a serious mistake. And I think Sen. Obama who was campaigning instead of voting, I wonder why he wasn't there to vote. We all knew that this vote was coming up." [CARRIE DANN]
Posted at 05:23 PM
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Biden is lying about knowing when the vote was coming up. Harry Reid said that it would not come up that day.
bob | 10.15.07 04:33 PM
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