Posted on 12/11/2005 5:15:50 PM PST by ncountylee
At a time when politicians in both parties have eagerly sought public forums to debate the war in Iraq, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has kept in the shadows.
Clinton has stayed steadfastly on a centrist path, criticizing President Bush but refusing to embrace the early troop withdrawal options that are gaining rapid favor in her party. This careful balance is drawing increasing scorn from liberal activists, frustrated that one of the party's leading lights has shown little appetite to challenge Bush's policy more directly and embrace a plan to set a timetable for bringing U.S. forces home.
Clinton is confronting the Democratic Party's long-standing dilemma on national defense, with those harboring national ambitions caught between the passions of the antiwar left and political concerns that they remain vulnerable to charges of weakness from the Republicans if they embrace the party's base. But some Democrats say, the left not withstanding, her refusal to advocate a speedy exit from Iraq may reflect a more accurate reading of public anxiety about the choices now facing the country.
When Senate Democrats called on President Bush last month to explain the conditions and establish a schedule for redeploying U.S. forces, Clinton supported the measure. When Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) called for redeploying all U.S. troops from Iraq over the next six months, the New York senator told reporters she was opposed. When her advisers were later asked whether she supports a two-year phased withdrawal advocated by a liberal think tank and embraced by Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean, they demurred.
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Ooops..forgot the Barf Alert.
Hillary may run as an independent.
I firmly believe she invited hecklers into her own rally, so she could gain sympathy as a "moderate".
She's their saviour and they know she's just trying to fool some of the people.
What a piece of XXXX she is.
I find it difficult to read this as a hillary puff piece.
"Sen. Clinton Crafts Vague Stance On War With Eye to 2008"
"At a time when politicians in both parties have eagerly sought public forums to debate the war in Iraq, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has kept in the shadows."
Come, come. She "crafts a vague stance" and she does it for purely political reasons? Who but a starry-eyed hillary groupie would read that in a positive light?
Other politicians are debating the war, but hillary has "kept in the shadows." It sounds opportunistic and sinister to me.
If I were hillary, I think I'd send someone out to assassinate Don Balz's cat, and drop it on his front porch.
Hmmm...."demurred"....somehow, that doesn't sound like the 'ol hillary....I would have expected something like "Thos fuc****Jew Bastrds!"
Oh well........
FMCDH(BITS)
Dan Balz is also on PBS Washington Week if you ever desire to make yourself sick.
It's been around 15 years since I last watched the TV set, except for VHSs and DVDs.
how could anyone rely on this person? She's in it for HERSELF same as her hubby ole impeached former prez willie was. All for them and them for themselves. She's as wishy washy as john kerry. Flip Floppette.
Hillary has an extremely liberal voting record.
Remember Bill Clinton when he said abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.
What did he do about it. He gave us an aclu supreme court judge, breyer, vetoed partial birth abortion ban, sent u.s taxpayer money overseas to fund abortions, gave ru pill.
With Hillary look at her voting record not what she says. Look at what she does not what she says.
Hillary is an extreme liberal not a moderate.
This is it for Hillary. She's trying to use Bill's and Dick Morris' triangulation strategy, but that thing is a decade old and totally unsuited to today's political climate. She's in real danger of discovering one day very soon that the democrat party and all her former acolytes in the media have moved on and left her behind, as they realize that she is completely incapable of adapting to the new terrain. She almost has to try going hard left now, and even then it may be too late - the whackjobs may never completely trust her.
Ironically, we may owe Cindy Sheehan a debt of gratitude, because she may have done what the entire GOP was incapable of doing - neutralize Hillary Clinton as a viable presidential candidate.
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You didn't say anything, you just cut-and-pasted a lot of crap that nobody will bother to read.
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If that is the case, then missus clinton has taken