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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts) Sat Mar 21, 2015, 05:05 PM Mar 2015

SMH @ the revisionism

Are we really holding out Hillary Clinton for opprobrium and censure for voting for the Authorization For The Use Of Military Force Against Terrorists that was passed in the immediate wake of 9-11 ?

It passed the House Of Representatives by a 420-1 vote and the Senate by a 98-0 vote.

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SMH @ the revisionism (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 OP

The Iraq War Resolution was infinitely more awful. nt MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #1

You mean when she voted with 59% of the Senate Democrats... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #5

But fewer than 50% of all Congressional Democrats? MannyGoldstein Mar 2015 #6

Horrible vote and I won't defend it but she had a lot of company... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #8

Yes. I am. AtomicKitten Mar 2015 #2

And how about the 99.9% of the other Democrats that voted for it? DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #3

Profiles in courage. WilliamPitt Mar 2015 #4

It passed the Senate 98-0. DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #7

Did you agree with it? WilliamPitt Mar 2015 #9

At the time, yeah... DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #10

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

1. The Iraq War Resolution was infinitely more awful. nt

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 05:27 PM

Mar 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

5. You mean when she voted with 59% of the Senate Democrats...

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:03 PM

Mar 2015

You mean when she voted with 59% of the Senate Democrats including Joe Biden and John Kerry who President Obama has deigned to make one and four heart beats away from the Oval Office.

She has been in the main stream of her party forever and I suspect your problem is as not as much with her as it is with the Democrat party in toto.

MannyGoldstein

(34,589 posts)

6. But fewer than 50% of all Congressional Democrats?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #5)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:06 PM

Mar 2015

So the majority of Democrats, who voted against the thing... were they smarter or more knowledgeable than Hillary? Or less patriotic?

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

8. Horrible vote and I won't defend it but she had a lot of company...

Reply to MannyGoldstein (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:08 PM

Mar 2015

AtomicKitten

(46,585 posts)

2. Yes. I am.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 05:28 PM

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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

3. And how about the 99.9% of the other Democrats that voted for it?

Reply to AtomicKitten (Reply #2)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:00 PM

Mar 2015

If one hundred marchers are marching in one direction and one marcher is marching in the other direction, maybe he or she is out of step.

WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)

4. Profiles in courage.

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Original post)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:02 PM

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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

7. It passed the Senate 98-0.

Reply to WilliamPitt (Reply #4)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:07 PM

Mar 2015

That means every Democrat from the most liberal to the most conservative supported it including the senior and junior senator from Massachusetts.

WilliamPitt

(58,179 posts)

9. Did you agree with it?

Reply to DemocratSinceBirth (Reply #7)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:09 PM

Mar 2015

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,711 posts)

10. At the time, yeah...

Reply to WilliamPitt (Reply #9)

Sat Mar 21, 2015, 06:15 PM

Mar 2015

At the time I agreed with 99.9% of my elected Democratic representatives and senators, including the junior and senior senator from Massachusetts, that the use of force was justified against those that perpetrated the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

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