Thanks to Annika for extracting these two quotes from Friday night’s second Presidential debate:
Quote 1:
He’s trying to attack me. He wants you to believe that I can’t be president. And he’s trying to make you believe it because he wants you to think I change my mind. Well, let me tell you straight up: I’ve never changed my mind about Iraq. I do believe Saddam Hussein was a threat. I always believed he was a threat. Believed it in 1998 when Clinton was president. I wanted to give Clinton the power to use force if necessary.
Quote 2:
I don’t think you can just rely on U.N. sanctions [to contain Iran], Randee. But you’re absolutely correct, it is a threat, it’s a huge threat. And what’s interesting is, it’s a threat that has grown while the president has been preoccupied with Iraq, where there wasn’t a threat.
So, which is it Mr. Junior Senator from Massachusetts? Was Saddam a threat or wasn’t he? If you’re going to stand by your “I’ve never changed my mind–I’ve always had one position on Iraq” statement, you should try much harder to not flip-flop and contradict yourself in the very same evening. Especially when about 200 million people are watching you and listening very carefully.
Kerry sucks. He would change his mind about being president during his inauguration (Hypothetical situation, BTW)
Left by Shannon Cooper on October 13th, 2004 at 9:22 pm