Top campaign advisers to Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama engaged in verbal combat at the Institute of Politics last night, sparring over the Illinois senator’s stated views on the war in Iraq.
Mark J. Penn ’76, Clinton’s senior strategist, set off a debate when he pointed to a 2004 quote by Obama in which the then-state senator claimed he did not know how he would have voted on the war if he were in the U.S. Senate. Penn said the quote ran counter to Obama’s stated longtime opposition to the war.
“Are we going to tell people the truth about what the candidates have voted for, what they have said, or are we going to do it selectively?” Penn, a former Crimson editor, said.
In response, Obama’s senior strategist, David Axelrod, said the quote was taken out of context, and that Obama had consistently opposed the war.
Axelrod concluded by asking “are we going to spend 10 months attacking each other or are we going to try to lift the people up?”
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