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NBC caught up on campaign news. When Democratic candidate Barack Obama made a major speech at the Woodrow Wilson Center on Wednesday on his willingness to violate Pakistani sovereignty to use force against al-Qaeda, ABC's Jake Tapper (subscription required) and CBS' Sharyl Attkisson covered the fallout. Now Andrea Mitchell traced the unfolding controversy as Obama told the Associated Press that such an attack would not include a tactical nuclear weapon. Then in the middle of his soundbite he backtracked: "Let me scratch all that. There has been no discussion of nuclear weapons. That is not on the table." Mitchell pointed out that the traditional formulation of the foreign policy establishment has been to be "deliberately vague…to keep adversaries guessing." So rival Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped on Obama's lack of nuclear ambiguity as proof of his inexperience for office.
George Stephanopoulos, anchor of ABC's This Week covered the Republican side of Campaign 2008. He was in Iowa where he will host a nine-way debate on Sunday. He commented on an ABC News poll that shows that only 19% of likely GOP caucus-goers are satisfied with their options. He perceived an "enthusiasm gap" between Republicans and Democrats statewide. None of the frontrunners have been "consistently conservative enough."
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