Thought on the war comments

I have been trying to process the debate from the other night and am still trying to figure out what impact it will have on Tuesday. One thing I am tired of is Obama priding himself with saying "NO" to Iraq. CNN writes today, quoting Obama: "Once we had driven the bus into the ditch, there were only so many ways we could get out," he said during Tuesday's debate in Ohio. "The question is, 'Who's making the decision initially to drive the bus into the ditch?' "

Well it wasn't him! A simple sentence, with no bias, could have followed: Senator Obama was not in national office at the time, and was therefore unable to cast a vote in either direction. Most uneducated voters would read the CNN article, or others like it and think that Sen. Obama had cast a vote against the war. He did not.

I was talking with fellow HOTforHILLARY blogger Scott, and he mentioned something very telling of the entire Obama phenomenon... Obama talks as if his saying no to Iraq as one of his greatest accomplishments. He often relies this opposition to the war as one of his biggest difference and therefore superior qualities to Sen. Clinton. Yet his biggest accomplishment, is an accomplishment of words! He was not in the Senate, and could not vote on this issue.

Where are his accomplishments of action???

Yet it is somehow fitting that, like his entire campaign, his proudest moment was one of non-action and simply words.