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SPARTANBURG, S.C. — Barack Obama just unleashed a corker of a speech that had students here at Converse College on their feet and cheering. He painted a bold new picture of a world in which he were president and that brought wild applause....
His oft-stated opposition to the war brought him huge applause as he wrapped it into not-so-veiled references to Mrs. Clinton. “When I’m your nominee,” he said, “my opponent won’t be able to say that I was for the war in Iraq before I was against it; they won’t be able to say that I supported an extension of the Iraq war into Iran; they won’t be able to say that I support Bush-Cheney diplomacy of not talking to leaders we don’t like.”
One of his most passionate passages was not in the prepared text. He promised to close down Guantanamo “because we’re not a nation that locks people up without charging them. We will restore habeas corpus. We are not a nation that undermines our civil liberties. We are not a nation that wiretaps without warrants.”
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/author/kseelye/2007/11/03/
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