That settles that
Senator Clinton: If elected president, we will stay in Iraq
The only interesting question now is this: who folks like me will vote for in November '08 if HRC is the Democratic nominee despite her rejection of the core position of her party? If she is the nominee, I can now actually imagine myself voting 3rd party.
I might have just been triangulated out of the Democratic Party.
"Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton foresees a “remaining military as well as political mission” in Iraq, and says that if elected president, she would keep a reduced but significant military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and possibly support the Iraqi military," reports the New York Times.
The only interesting question now is this: who folks like me will vote for in November '08 if HRC is the Democratic nominee despite her rejection of the core position of her party? If she is the nominee, I can now actually imagine myself voting 3rd party.
I might have just been triangulated out of the Democratic Party.
posted by bluememe at 3/14/2007
4 Comments:
Welcome to real politik!
A computer genius friend of mine described, in the late '70s, exactly how you could conduct a secret, transparent, unriggable (no ifs, and or buts) computerized election. It is actually simple and cannot be beaten except by keeping people away from the polls. Now why do you suppose that neither party has demanded the institution of this system? Please explain in 25 words or less why you would vote without such a system being in place.
TA
I think you may have some company.
When we're this close to finding the power and resolve within the Democratic Party to stop this carnival of paranoia and murder in Iraq, Sen. Clinton volunteers to prolong it.
She's had plenty of time to change her mind and come around to a sane approach to international affairs. Rather than step into a leadership position, she's rededicated herself to following a policy that is failing right in front of her. Maybe that qualifies her to be a senator, but it disqualifies her from being my president.
Rather than worry about choosing between her and whichever Republican is left standing when the presidential election rolls around, what can we do to see to it that she's retired in the primaries?
"Rather than step into a leadership position, she's rededicated herself to following a policy that is failing right in front of her. Maybe that qualifies her to be a senator, but it disqualifies her from being my president."
Amen. And well said.
Vote her the hell out in the primaries.
Have to give her credit for not adopting the Lieberman strategy, I suppose, but that's about it. I've never understood how anyone can look at this woman's track record and come to the conclusion that she's progressive in any meaningful sense of the word.
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