Campaign 2008 UpdatesEvan Bayh
seduces 'em in New Hampshire by reconsidering his vote on Iraq.
“I made a decision I thought was right at the time,” Bayh said at the Henniker forum. “It turns out that some of the most important information we relied upon at that time just was not accurate. There were no weapons of mass destruction. The administration has been proven to be terribly incompetent in the way they’ve carried this out. It turns out that Saddam’s regime was much more decrepit than we had thought to be the case at that time. So, of course, we would make different decisions based on different facts.”Meanwhile Chuckie Bagel's
on the stump in Iowa:
One observer in the crowd of 350 - many of whom were students or professors - noted approvingly that the speech was neither Republican nor Democrat.
"He's a centrist," said Doug Finnemore, a Democratic professor who admires Hagel's stand on the war and thinks he could "play well" in the Republican caucuses next year as the war takes center stage nationally.
Several in the audience said they knew and liked Hagel because of his harsh assessments of the war.That may help him with Democrats, but it won't do much for him in the primaries. And what's all this talk of Republican caucuses next year? The caucuses won't matter until 2008.
