Posted on 01/29/2006 9:48:43 AM PST by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. senator and possible presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in San Francisco on Saturday night for a friendly discussion on her life, her husband and her future. But it's her views on Iraq that have upset some California Democrats.
Clinton, New York's junior senator and wife of former President Clinton, was interviewed before a crowd of about 1,600 at the Nob Hill Masonic Auditorium by former television host Jane Pauley as a fundraiser for the Bar Association of San Francisco.
Her spokesman steadfastly refused to describe what else she is doing while in California. Nonetheless, the trip is being seen as one of the first forays into the state for what many believe is a nascent campaign for president in 2008.
So to some liberal Democratic activists, the event offered a chance to press Clinton on her position on the war. And they are not happy.
"We need a woman in the White House," said Suzanne Joi of CodePink, a self-described "woman-initiated" grass-roots anti-war group that held a small protest in the rain outside the auditorium. "But we don't need a woman who acts like a man in the White House, and we don't need a woman who cannot stand up to the Republican right-wing agenda."
Replying to a question from Pauley about why she voted in 2002 to give President Bush authority to wage war in Iraq, Clinton said Bush insisted he needed that authority to prod Iraq into allowing inspectors back into that country. But Bush ultimately misused that authority, Clinton added.
"No matter what one thinks about how President Bush used that authority, we cannot root for failure," Clinton said. "We cannot take actions now that would further undermine whatever chance of stability the new Iraqi government might have."
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Why wouldn't San Francisco believe that she was duped. She spent 8 years being publicly duped while living in the White House.
Why can't the smartest woman/senator in the world take questions from people in the audience in a state she does not represent from people that can't vote for her?
I can't believe anybody could seriously be considering voting for this lump of equivocations and ankle fat.
She's such a liar. Failure is the only thing she and the democrats DO root for.
If she is so vulnerable to being fooled by that half-wit, President Bush (sic), why on earth would anyone want her to run an administration facing the thugs, liars and thieves around the world?
If Dems can't see through Bush's strategery, they're too stupid to govern, and ought to slink away!
Pinz
ps. All negative aspersions have been approved by the DNC ;-)
...and another umpteen years getting duped by the same white trash loser who was perpetually erect.
I read a couple of days ago that this event was not sold out. There were about a thousand seats available out of 3000.
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HILLARY slowed down BUSH's push to bring Freedom to Iraq by constantly calling for him to go to the UN first and to address North Korea instead.
Just long enough for fifty-two 747 air cargo planes full of Saddam's WMD's to get from Bagdhad to Syria, perhaps..?
The enemy is now within...
and always has been, it appears.
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Sounds like gender bias hate speech to me. Except that it was spoken by a 'womyn', so she (it?) gets off with a free pass. Never mind...
So now these women are advocating that we have to have a woman president? And that woman can't act like a man? So are women a superior species now? Are they sexist?
What is it about these people? Kerry, Kennedy, Boxer, Feinstein, Clintoon, The Beast, Carter... they never STFU!
Classic leftist logic. "Yes, I voted for the war, but I didn't think that it would really mean anything".
Can't these scumbag leftists standby their decisions just once.
Yeah I'd say they have lost their focus. How about voting for the best qualified "person" regardless of their sex.
She didn't know that she was voting for military action just like she didn't know her husband was banging the help!
Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters
oh no comments really. I'm just laughing so hard.
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