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Posted on 01/08/2008 5:51:57 AM PST by jdm
The day before today's New Hampshire primary, Hillary Clinton desperately searched for issues she could use against Barack Obama. Unfortunately, she made the mistake of attacking him for what she called his inconsistent record on the Iraq war.
Remember, Obama, as an Illinois state senator, opposed the war in 2002, and Clinton, a U.S. senator from New York, voted to give President Bush the authority to go to war against Iraq. You would think Iraq would be the last issue Clinton would raise against Obama, who has tapped into a public hunger for change in Washington.
"If you make a speech, and a very good speech, against the war in Iraq in 2002, and then by 2004 you're saying you're not sure how you would have voted, and by 2005, 2006, 2007 you vote for the $300-billion for the war you said you were against, that's not change," she told one audience.
Was Clinton, who has repeatedly voted to fund the war, criticizing Obama for supporting U.S. troops on the ground in Iraq? By the time Obama was elected to the U.S. Senate, the war he opposed was under way, and it is to his credit that he voted against cutting off funds for armor, equipment and other military needs.
The kindest way to view Clinton's cheap shot is to assume the physical exhaustion of a grueling campaign schedule finally caught up with her.
How does either one of these two clowns expect to get elected by trumpeting their votes AGAINST the needs of our military!?
Come on old crusty, get back on the horse.
We want change = we hate Bush
the Rats are still running against W
Have you seen a typical Dem voter recently? Most of them would just as soon get rid of our military and let the UN handle our security.
Of course, then the UN will say, what do you expect us to do? We always just used the American military.
I saw a clip of her trying to get the audience to do a "that's not change!" shoutalong. Kinda pathetic.
Of course he was AGAINST it. After all, when the mussies take over America he wants to keep his head firmly attached to his body!
I live in northeast Massachusetts, so I'm barraged with her campaign commercials all the time, and I swear the goal of her latest round of spots is to see how many times she can cram the word "change" into a thirty-second commercial. It's like listening to a bit from Kevin Nealon's old "Subliminal Message Man" on Saturday Night Live.
She is pathetic IMHO.
This reminds me of when Pat Buchanan won New Hampshire in 1996...we ended up with Dole, anyway. Hillary is more of a Democratic Richard Nixon, but it's "her turn" so it's way too early to declare her dead.
i think the voters got a whiff of the “lucky pantsuit”
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They'll be stuck in W mode for a long time, as a collective party they have all the nimbleness of a dumptruck.
Why do you folks always hit a girl when she is down. This is just because I am a woman.
Don’t pick on her. She takes this PERSONALLY. (I’m wiping away a tear as I type this.)
Yeah, they want to change from a Republic to a Dictatorship!
Looks like Hillery having her Gethsemane moment.
She also said Obama hadn’t done enough SPADEWORK!! OMG!! If a Republican would have said that the crap would be hitting the fan!
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