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War. and she stands alongside jim webb, who wasn't even in congress at the time but as a public figure and a former secretary of the navy he was on the record at the time opposing the iraq war. to be fair, i'm not sure anybody thought to ask martin o'malley, who was mayor of baltimore at the time, but at least he certainly didn't vote for the war the way then senator clinton did. and so now hillary clinton has come up with a way to talk about that vote and apologize for that vote in a way that honestly pretty much settles it. at least for the democratic debate audience it did. her answer on th...

Nuclear weaponry what why wouldn't one go for that, no matter what else it does or fails to do? >> well, you just expressed basically what i think about the deal. what the critics are going to say is that the deal eventually keeps a very big, sort of sfril nuclear program in place that it's a matter of time before iran gets there. and also that even if the deal sticks, they're going to argue that getting rid of the sanctions will give iran suddenly an awful lot of money that they can use to cause problems in the middle east. it goes back to what you said in the beginning, compared to what. and...

What's yours? >> exactly. you used the word frustration earlier. that's what you heard. the clintons underestimated a couple of things. on the war issue, they underestimated the strength on the democrats. where they came to vanquish the jacksonites. and their idea was that african-americans and peace liberals. fighting the same two constituencies and i think clinton took for granted on at least one of those two, they had that in the bag. they really underestimated the extent to which african-americans wanted not just a friend in the white house which a clinton coming to ride to the rescue sign...

I don't work, and so therefore, i'm not covered. i'm getting uncompensated care, or i'm provided uncompensated care if i'm a local hospital. he stepped up to the plate. when hillary clinton tried it in the '90s, it didn't work. she shot down by all of the special interests on the left and the right. obama stepped to the plate and put it together and really produced it. and i think he did that because the people basically were ready. not because democrats or republicans were ready. the people were ready. and then, of course, he took exactly what mr. bush screwed up on the war side and he addres...

When hillary clinton tried it in the 90 zz, it didn't work. she shot down by all of the special interests on the left and the right. obama stepped to the plate and put it together and really produced it. and i think he did that because the people basically were ready. not because democrats or republicans were ready. the people were ready. and then, of course, he took exactly what mr. bush screwed up on the war side and he addressed that issue effectively. and the evolution of the war issue has removed it from the front pages. and then finally he did something which i thought he would never do....