Obama has been dishonest about how he would have voted on the Iraq war and President Clinton finally called him on it.   In 2004 Obama said he didn’t know how he would have voted had he actually been in the Senate.

 Voters need to have all the facts.  Here’s a start.

“It is wrong that Senator Obama got to go through 15 debates trumpeting his superior judgment and how he had been against the war in every year, enumerating the years, and never got asked one time - not once, ‘Well, how could you say that when you said in 2004 you didn’t know how you would have voted on the resolution? You said in 2004 there was no difference between you and George Bush on the war. And you took that speech you’re now running on off your Web site in 2004. And there’s no difference in your voting record and Hillary’s ever since’”.

“Give me a break,” said Mr. Clinton. “This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen.”

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YLDx4NZr2u4

In October, Obama offered this excuse for his comments about not knowing how he would have voted: 

“I was asked a question about John Kerry and John Edwards on the eve of them accepting the nomination for the Democratic Party,” Obama said in October. ” … I wasn’t going to engage in criticism of them because I thought that their positions at that point were clearly superior to George Bush’s.”

Here are Obama’s previous excuses that were in a March 20, 2007 Washington Post article:

The Clinton campaign later supplied several Obama quotations from 2004 to buttress Penn’s attack. One came from the New York Times, in which Obama declined to criticize the Democratic Party’s presidential and vice presidential nominees, Sen. John F. Kerry and then-Sen. John Edwards, for supporting the 2002 war resolution. “But I’m not privy to Senate intelligence reports,” Obama said, according to the Times. “What would I have done? I don’t know. What I know is that from my vantage point the case was not made.”

The Clinton campaign also distributed an e-mail citing an Obama interview from the week of the 2004 Democratic National Convention. He appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and was asked by moderator Tim Russert: “How could they have been so wrong and you so right as a state legislator in Illinois and they’re on the Foreign Relations and intelligence committees in Washington?”

Obama replied, “Well, I think they have access to information that I did not have.”

Russert then asked whether Obama would have voted for the resolution authorizing the war. “I would have voted not to authorize the president, given the facts as I saw them at that time.” Asked if he therefore disagreed with Kerry and Edwards, he said: “At that time, but, as I said, I wasn’t there and what is absolutely clear as we move forward is that if we don’t have a change in tone and a change in administration, I think we’re going to have trouble making sure that our troops are secure and that we succeed in Iraq.”

Axelrod said Monday night that the Clinton campaign has distorted Obama’s remarks and has tried to offer a selective view of history. “I don’t think that full disclosure is their friend on this,” he said.

Clinton’s 2002 vote has been consistently questioned, as it was at the forum, when a member of the audience asked Penn how the campaign hoped to convince voters who otherwise might be inclined to support the New York senator that they can trust her judgment.

“Do you think Hillary Clinton is the kind of person who if she were president would have started the Iraq war?” Penn asked. “No.” As his exchange with Axelrod continued, he raised the question that many Clinton advisers see as critical: “Is this election going to turn about what happened in 2002 or what’s going to happen in the future?”

So Obama was lying to protect Kerry/Edwards or has he been lying ever since? 

Either way, he lied for political expediency.  He has repeatedly attacked Sen. Clinton for something he defended when it suited him.

PS.  What Obama USE to say about Sen. Clinton before he changed:

”I deeply admire her because she is a workhorse, not a show horse.  People assumed that because of her fame and her position as first lady she was going to come in and spend a lot of time with press conferences. She spent a lot of time doing work, hard work, work that other people don’t want to do.”