Morning Update: The War and Leadership
Ahead of Tuesday’s nominating contests in Ohio and Texas, Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) attacked Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) for her record on Iraq. Clinton “won’t even admit” that her vote in favor of the 2002 authorization of the war in Iraq “was a mistake, or even that it was a vote for war,” said Obama at a town hall meeting in Westerville, Ohio.
Clinton continued to criticize Obama’s foreign policy credentials as well. At a campaign stop in Dallas on Saturday, Clinton told voters Obama “didn’t tell you until the debate the other night that he had never even held a single substantive hearing” of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Europe subcommittee, which he chairs, “to figure out what he could do better” (MSNBC).
Clinton called the results of Sunday’s Russian presidential elections “a milestone in that country’s retreat from democracy.”
A new poll shows Obama may be making gains among Latino voters in Texas (WSJ).
Republican candidate Mike Huckabee visited the U.S.-Mexico border in Laredo, Texas, where he said a border fence would actually combat the “assumption that everyone who is here with some Hispanic background is here illegally.”
