Posted on 02/14/2007 4:29:41 AM PST by IrishMike
CONCORD, N.H. -- Monique Cesna seemed ready to toss a softball to Hillary Clinton. "I have to say, 'You go, girl!" Cesna said, and the capacity crowd in the high school gym here went wild.
But Cesna, 47, a nurse turned third-year law student, then bore down for the cross-examination: Candidate Clinton insists she wouldn't have taken the country to war in Iraq had she been president, yet Senator Clinton voted to authorize President Bush to go to war.
"How can you then explain the seeming contradiction?" she asked -- and again the crowd went wild.
Iraq was the throbbing toothache of Clinton's weekend visit here. The state she once took pains to avoid for fear of igniting presidential rumors -- she hadn't been here since 1996 -- will be key to her ambition to become the second President Clinton. But here and in Iowa, she faces a ferociously antiwar electorate unhappy with her positions, past and present, on Iraq.
On the eve of the primary three years ago, New Hampshire voters fixated on electability: They weren't so much swept away by John F. Kerry as calculating that he had the best shot of winning. Their hearts may have been with Howard Dean and his antiwar stance, but their heads were with Kerry and his pragmatic pitch: "Don't just send them a message. Send them a president."
Today, the mood feels different -- whether it's because that electability strategy didn't work out so well; that Bush will be out no matter what; that Democrats seem favored to win in 2008; that Iraq is more of a disaster; or that the primary is far enough away that voters can vent now and strategize later.
For the moment, Democratic primary voters don't want Kerryesque parsing.
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So, on this one particular issue, Hillary!'s interests and the nation's interests coincide. She should be using her influence to make sure we win in Iraq. Otherwise, she will never be President.
And, frankly, if Hillary! got on the right side of the War in Iraq, even I might vote for her!
This says it all. A MOM who is a law student who will likely be a bleeding heart lawyer destined to free prisoners from Guantanamo Bay,disagreesw with her son's voluntary patriotism as a US Marine. Sure, we need lots of femino nazis like her as voters.
I Hillary does not laud the patriotism angle, and make the war against Islamofascism a bi-partisan effort, she will never , never achieve the unifying force that will elect her president.
Hillary was presented with an opportunity for greatness, but fizzled. No president , she.
To WaPo... all politics is Dem politics.
Regarding the WaCompost ...
study the enemy tactics.
Media turning from Hildabeast
...... she's done.
Why? Why do these people invest so much in this woman? Were you put women such as Condi Rice, Janice Rodgers Brown or the late Jeanne Kirkpatrick in front of that group, women who are far more accomplished than Hillary Clinton, there would be no "You go, girl," no wild cheering.
I truly don't understand the adulation. These women act like it's 1907 not 2007.
No way Mike, no way.
I wouldn't vote for Hillary! if she were running against Satan himself.
Marrying a contentious women is like a lifelong toothache.
-The book of proverbs
Hillary is seldom on the right side of anything. I might add that the side she is on can be switched faster than she can change "Old Crusty".
Hillary has no principles except winning. Integrity is a word that has never been used to describe Hillary,not even by her friends.
Hitlery's pat answer was that "Bush Lied to Congress" when she voted for the war.
The fact was that she was pandering to the center so she could appear Hawkish on Defense.
Now that the center is anti-war, she is hanging out to dry.
Every bit of this Hillary "campaign" is a carefully scripted and choreographed performance. You don't really think that some soccer mom turned law student "just happened" to go to this event, get called on by chance to ask Hillary a question and then nailed her with a zinger, do you? Five to one she is some Dim activist who got paid by the campaign to memorize and deliver that question, which they provided. So of course they already had a prepared answer for Hillary to deliver.
These early campaign events are dress rehearsals for the real thing later on. They're giving Hillary a chance to try on different lies and excuses for every issue that might come up, so she can find the ones that fool the most people into voting for her.
They're also meant to give the impression that Hillary's being unfairly beaten up on, having to answer the same question over and over again, so that later on people will say, "She's already dealt with that and she's already taken her hits for it. Can't we just move on?"
And of course, the media knows all of this, yet perpetuates the lie that these are all just "average ordinary Americans expressing their concerns over an unpopular war."
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