As potential presidential candidates begin to stake out their positions ahead of the 2016 election, Senator Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, is taking a page out of Obama’s playbook.
In the Democratic primaries ahead of the 2008 presidential election, then-Senator Barack Obama took the Democratic presidential nomination from the front-runner, Hillary Clinton, largely due to his opposition to the Iraq War in 2002. The war was unpopular among Democrats, and Obama boasted he knew it was a bad idea all along.
Now Paul is trying the same tactic. As the Al-Qaeda offshoot known as the Islamic State (the group better known as …read more
Source: Newsweek
