Iraq war: Chafee doesn't think "anybody should be president....that made that mistake."
disclaimer: this article is from June, but I think it gives us a glimpse as to what one of the major issues is going to be in tonight's debate. And all the Hillaristas or the Hillarites or whatever they're calling themselves can jump all over this if they want, but Hillary stands alone on this issue. Chafee voted against it as a Republican, Bernie voted against it with the Democrats, Webb was a rabid and fierce critic of the war, and O'Malley has come out against it. She can walk it back all she wants, but it speaks to her judgment as well as her worldview, and it still matters to many of us. This will be an issue tonight, especially if the predictions about Chafee coming out hard on this issue are to be believed.
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Hillary Clinton has yet to live down the vote she cast to back the Iraq War as a senator in 2002—a vote that helped President Obama beat her in the 2008 democratic primaries. On Thursday, her 2016 rival Bernie Sanders stopped short of saying that her vote should disqualify her from being president. But there was a "but."
"I'm not here to criticize the vote she cast years ago," Sanders, the most progressive candidate in the democratic field, told reporters at a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor in Washington, DC. "But what does that mean in terms of your judgment in assessing information?"
His answer didn't go as far as another 2016 Clinton challenger, former Rhode Island governor Lincoln Chafee, who doesn't believe that "anybody should be president of the United States that made that mistake." Sanders' take was more forgiving: "Everybody makes bad votes in their lives and I don't think anyone is 'disqualified.'" snip..
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/sanders-clinton-iraq-war-vote
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