Obama seeks to reverse the question?

[sueragingroz]

Let's see who picks up on the irony in the following passage from the washington post blog:

Obama Seeks to Reverse the Question
By Shailagh Murray
WESTERVILLE, Ohio - Sen. Barack Obama shot down his rival's contention that his candidacy is built around his Iraq opposition and leveled a direct challenge to Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's claim to lengthy foreign policy credentials.

Speaking this afternoon at a local high school, at the start of a packed town hall meeting, Obama was unusually blunt and emphatic, underscoring the intensity of these final campaign days before the big Texas and Ohio showdowns on Tuesday.

"Now in the last few days, Sen. Clinton goes running around telling people that the entire campaign, according to her, is only based on the fact that I gave a speech in opposition to the war in Iraq from the start," Obama said. "That that is the only basis of my campaign, and on the other hand she has, supposedly, all this vast foreign policy experience."

He continued, "I have to say that when it came to making the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, the decision to invade Iraq, Sen. Clinton got it wrong."

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/02/obama_seeks_to_reverse_the_que.html
and it goes on from there...

[fenriswolf]

1. its not ironic

she is saying that his candidacy is built around HIS policy while he states that HER policy was wrong.

[sueragingroz]

2. it is ironic because...

On the one hand, he is trying to change the message - ie portray his foreign policy experience to be about something more than his opposition to the war. And then on the other hand, he resumes his attack on Hillary based again on that same narrow issue.

I dunno about you, but it seems ironic to me.