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May 11, 2007— -- ABC News' George Stephanopoulos went on the road with Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., Friday and asked the Democratic presidential hopeful if he would vote for a war-funding bill that includes benchmarks but not a timetable.
Obama never directly answered the question but he signaled that he could support a compromise that did not include a timetable for withdrawal.
"It's going to depend on what the bill looks like," said Obama. "I don't want believe in giving George Bush a blank check."
After Stephanopoulos followed up, Obama said: "There's got to be something that signals the president is changing course and that there are consequences to the Iraqi government failing to meet some of the benchmarks that we're talking about."
The full Obama interview -- in which he answered all the big questions about his infamous land deal, ethics reform, taxes, his new Secret Service protection, Social Security privatization, affirmative action, and what role anger plays while campaigning for president -- airs Sunday morning on "This Week."
Saturday, May 12:
Saturday is full of commencement addresses . . .
On the same weekend that he graces the cover of Time magazine and gets interviewed on CBS' "60 Minutes," Gov. Mitt Romney, R-Mass., is in the State of Michigan., where, as he likes to say, his dad's name was "golden," for a 2:00 pm ET address at Hillsdale College.
Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., delivers an 11:00 am ET address to Claflin University in Orangeburg, S.C. She then travels to Ohio, one of the states she hopes to flip to the Democrats in 2008, for a 7:00 pm ET address to the Ohio Democratic Party in Columbus.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., delivers an 11:00 am ET address at New England College in Henniker, N.H. (He also delivers remarks at 2:00 pm ET in Hollis and 7:00 pm ET in Bartlett).
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., delivers the 11:00 am ET commencement address at Webster University in St. Louis.
Whites House Press Secretary Tony Snow delivers a 10:00 am ET commencement address at The Catholic University of America in Washington, DC.
