Reply #21: Obama promises 2008 answer in one to two weeks, want to "constrain" Chimpy on Iraq

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Obama promises 2008 answer in one to two weeks
By Eric Krol
Daily Herald Political Writer
Posted Monday, January 15, 2007

Democratic U.S. Sen. Barack Obama said today that an announcement on his presidential political plans remains a week or two away and that he specifically wanted to avoid revealing his plans on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

“We will have an announcement very soon,” Obama told reporters after a speech at a church in south suburban Harvey. “But I didn’t want to use this date to indicate my plans because I am humbled by what Dr. King accomplished. I don’t think that whatever my political plans are are comparable to the historical struggles that he went through and I don’t want to draw false parallels.”

Illinois’ junior senator also said he thinks a majority of the Senate will agree by the end of the week on a non-binding resolution against President Bush’s plan to send more troops to Iraq.

“I think we will get a majority of the Senate saying that this is a bad idea. That will give us, I think, the impetus and the political symbolism to then start pursuing a more concrete plan to constrain the president,” said Obama, who has called for the immediate drawdown of troops from Iraq.

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“We’ve got to figure out how to constrain a president who’s determined to pursue what the American people have uniformly concluded, I think, is a wrong-headed path.”

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