Right, b/c Obama has been simply divine in taking a leadership position in the senate to end the war. Oh, and he also never makes bad judgements, like a "boneheaded mistake" of getting involved in real estate dealings with a shady character like Tony Rezko. No, its much easier to sit on the sidelines perpetually touting one's own character and ability to change than actually take clear positions that carry political risks.

Oh, and with regards to NAFTA, i'll try and disregard Obama's unfettered free market principles and the fact that he surrounds himself with conservative economic advisors and have faith that he'll "do the right the thing" with regards to foreign trade and the US economy when the time is right.

I find your post full of insinuation and distortion and honestly, I couldn't see Obama having courage.  He is the one who actually lacks courage not Hillary.

Obama is the guy that votes present on tough votes, hides out in the bathroom rather than even vote, doesn't back up his claimed opposition to this war with any real action when he finally gets to the senate, doesn't bother to go back for the Iran vote even though he claimed it was a authorization for war, he couldn't get there to vote against the bill.  He is the guy that has the ridiculous position that he was against this war all along, but the total lack of honesty concerning this issue is disturbing.  I actually remember back that far unlike those who try to claim they were against the war all along.  Where were they?  Were they part of the 91% approval of GWB in 2002?  Were they from NY where that state had been dealt a terrible blow, how could a sitting senator go against Bush when he had assured her and others that he would use force as a last resort, when the UN said that the threat of force was the only way to get the inspectors back into Iraq which was Hillary's goal, I heard her speech on the floor of the senate at the time.  That is what she said then.

This war belongs squarely on George W. Bush's shoulders, and not on hers.  She has said that she would have never done that if she were President but she was not, Bush was.  There were 77 senators who voted for this war.  Perhaps if they had not been lied to by the Bush administration, some would have voted differently.  Perhaps if we had known at the time how much of a liar and incompetent fool Bush was, but at the time we did not know that.  It only because obvious later, and after his poll numbers fell, then Obama comes out of the closet on this matter.  His was not a loud voice before this war, only after, many years and a Presidential campaign later has he really started to speak out.  He is the coward, not Hillary.

Americans want out of Iraq that is true.  But we do not want someone who insists the USA made a terrible mistake, who will make us wrong in the eyes of the world, possibly causing criminal charges or civil cost beyond what we already face.    We are already in Iraq.  So it is no longer even an issue of who supported or didn't support this war, the real question is what now. The stolen line, "we should be as careful getting out as we were careless getting in" is clever, but actually beside the point.  Obama's plan is a copy of Clinton's plan, and really neither plan will survive the realities on the ground in Iraq.

You speak of courage?  How about the courage to face the accusations hurled at her the whole time in the WH and finally being vindicated after the republicans caused the spending of $50 million dollars to prove she did not commit any of these  things they accused her of.  She kept on going even after the defeat of the universal health care, and got insurance for millions of children, BTW with republicans.  She faced the sneers and smears concerning the affair her husband had splashed all over the nation, and yet she made the courageous decision that contrary to what some thought she should do, she knew she wanted to stay with her husband and she did just that. In spite of being in the public eye she managed to raise a daughter anyone could be proud of, a remarkable young woman whom she defends with great courage. I would say that Hillary Clinton has a lot of courage, so your argument is moot.  

Oh yeah forgot a few other things.  How about the courage to face the voters in NY and win her senate seat, and to honor her pledge to not run for the WH in 2004, whereas Obama promised he wouldn't run but broke his promise, or the promise to use campaign funds from the government in the general and now his backing out of that pledge too.  He seems to break his promises at will , so I don't find that courageous at all.  Clinton faced the voters of NY a second time and won an overwhelming second term.  She had the courage to run for the presidency even though no woman has ever been president, and this country is decidedly misogynistic.  That takes real courage not the pretend kind of courage you imply but real courage to face life and keep on keeping on, doing the actual work she was hired to do instead of running away from the responsibilities of the job to run yet again for a different office having just gotten the one he doesn't even bother to do.