No Playing Chicken with Troops

Obama continues to distance himself from Hillary Clinton, by calling out that she refuses to repudiate her vote. This is a strategy that is working in Obama's favor due to the high number of Americans who now oppose the war and want the troops to come home.

If President Bush vetoes an Iraq war spending bill as promised, Congress quickly will provide the money without the withdrawal timeline the White House objects to because no lawmaker "wants to play chicken with our troops," Barack Obama said Sunday.

"My expectation is that we will continue to try to ratchet up the pressure on the president to change course," the Democratic presidential candidate said in an interview with The Associated Press. "I don't think that we will see a majority of the Senate vote to cut off funding at this stage."

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