Getting to know the Vice-Presidential candidate a little better.
Who cares about the VP,barring some kind of freak occurrence, he does nothing except “balance the ticket.” Oh, and he technically is the “president of the senate” which means he is the tiebreaking vote, but that pretty much never happens.
Hat tip to James Lileks:
Lied about WMD. This also takes the form of ?misled.? Again, I tune right out, because the speaker assumes I haven?t been paying attention, that I wasn?t around in the 90s, haven?t read any histories, and regarded Iraq as this amusingly benign country run by a comical rogue of diminished significance. Let?s roll tape: Hardball, Oct 15 2003. (Spats nod: LGF)
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you about-Since you did support the resolution and you did support that ultimate solution to go into combat and to take over that government and occupy that country. Do you think that you, as a United States Senator, got the straight story from the Bush administration on this war? On the need for the war? Did you get the straight story?
EDWARDS: Well, the first thing I should say is I take responsibility for my vote. Period. And I did what I did based upon a belief, Chris, that Saddam Hussein?s potential for getting nuclear capability was what created the threat. That was always the focus of my concern. Still is the focus of my concern.
So did I get misled? No. I didn?t get misled.
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MATTHEWS: If you knew last October when you had to cast an aye or nay vote for this war, that we would be unable to find weapons of mass destruction after all these months there, would you still have supported the war?
EDWARDS: It wouldn?t change my views. I said before, I think that the threat here was a unique threat. It was Saddam Hussein, the potential for Saddam getting nuclear weapons, given his history and the fact that he started the war before.