Rivals Chide Clinton on Vote
Barack Obama delivers a speech on his energy plan yesterday in Portsmouth, N.H. In it, he framed energy policy as an example of the Washington establishment failing the nation.
(By Neal Hamberg -- Bloomberg News)
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TAKING HER TO TASK
Rivals Chide Clinton on Vote
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's Democratic rivals have seized on a new line of criticism: her support for a bill that urges the Bush administration to label the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, part of Iran's military, a terrorist organization.
The authors of the bill, including Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), cast it as a rebuke of the Guard for supporting insurgents in Iraq, but liberals have depicted it as a proposal that could lay the groundwork for U.S. military action against Iran. The bill passed in the Senate 76 to 22 late last month, with Clinton among the Democrats who backed it.
Clinton was questioned sharply about the bill by a voter in New Hampton, Iowa, on Sunday. And yesterday, former senator John Edwards and Barack Obama linked her vote to one of the more controversial elements of her candidacy, her 2002 vote for the war in Iraq.
On the radio show of liberal host Ed Schultz, Edwards said: "What it makes me wonder is if six months from now he goes to war in Iran, are we going to hear her once again say if only I had known then what I know now?"
Obama, in an interview with ABC News, said: "Her willingness to once again extend to the president the benefit of the doubt I think indicates that she hasn't fully learned some of the lessons that we saw back in 2002."
Clinton spokesman Phil Singer rejected the criticism. "They know that Senator Clinton was one of the first in Congress to say that Bush must seek an explicit authorization from Congress for any military action against Iran," he said, "and that she is the lead co-sponsor of legislation by Jim Webb to prohibit funds for military action in Iran without approval from Congress."
-- Perry Bacon Jr.
AN ENERGY PROPOSAL
Obama's Cap-and-Trade Plan
Just months after being chastised by environmentalists for backing a controversial coal technology, Barack Obama put forward a wide-ranging proposal on energy and climate change with calls for sharply reduced carbon dioxide emissions, higher vehicle mileage standards and greatly increased energy efficiency.
