"If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will."
She better hope things are REAL quiet between now and then. That statement was a BIG gamble - and not a bright one. It really has no significant up side but a potentially huge downside.
Only way I can see her calculation on this is that any Democrat will be elected in Nov. and her real task it to win the Dem Primary.
And she's willing to run far left to get it.
Either that or she figures she can always change her mind - again.
:)
I think in Hillary's eyes, it's no gamble at all. She's intimately aware of just how short the memory of the American public is. She's not so much making campaign "promises"...she's running up trial balloons to gauge a response and to see who wants to hear what so she can shovel it to them. (Same thing with the whole take-the-obscene-profit-made-by-Big-Oil-and-spend-it-on-alternative-fuel-development.) She learned a thing or two from Mr. Rodham Clinton about governing by the polling data!
"She better hope things are REAL quiet between now and then. That statement was a BIG gamble - and not a bright one. It really has no significant up side but a potentially huge downside."
Reverse it. If she is elected President and she doesn't bring the troops home, the MSM will never bring to light her original statement. What they will bring to light is her vote for the war.
Hillary never says anything that hasn'r been scripted, polled and tested.
Hillary, like her husband, lies for reasons of political expediency at the drop of a hat.
Didn't she at one time promise not to run for president?
Like everything else she promises, she'll keep this promise if it's the politically expedient thing for her to do.