You probably remember that a month ago today Democrat Bill Foster won a special election to fill Denny Hastert’s old seat in Illinois 14, what had been a reliably Republican district. Foster beat dairy kingpin Jim Oberweis and it seems one of the statements that helped Foster pull this seat out of Republican hands was Oberweis’s declaration that we need to stay in Iraq for another ten years. (Think about it: in McCain terms, that’s practically cut and run.) Here’s the ad the Foster campaign ran about Oberweis and his pledge of ten more years in Iraq …
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April 8, 2008 8:42 p.m.
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