I realize politics can be a nasty business, but the fact is what's going on here is a plain old Borking.
'Borking', -- a verb meaning "to attack a person's reputation and views unfairly".
I agree, the mans reputation is being smeared.
However, fair questions are being raised about his constitutional views on war-making powers, - questions that he has not [to date] answered satisfactorily.
So, - just like Bork, he has brought the whirlwind down on his own head.
TL:
I know there's some legitimate questions involved, but I don't see this as having the potential to provide any rational answers.
Captain Kirk wrote:
-- a good and decent man [is smeared] just because he happens to advocate the same foreign policy position on foreign wars that a majority of freepers advocated when Clinton was in office (remember Kosovo?)
Good point, capt'n, -- one that illustrates this controversy over war powers does have the potential to provide rational answers.
Many here saw Kosovo as clintonian politics, cynically cloaked as 'saving the world for democracy'.
I doubt any here see Iraq in that light.
Disassembling a watch has the potential to provide rational answers about how it works or why it doesn’t. Doing it with a sledgehammer and a cutting torch will render whatever potenetial there was pretty well worthless.