I remember when Hillary stabbed John Kerry in the back.
In 2006, Kerry was considering another run for the White House. Shortly before the midterm election, he made this comment to a group of college students:
"Education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."
Anyone with a brain could understand that Kerry was referring to the then-Bush administration's totally incompetent handling of the invasion of Iraq. However, his remarks, of course, were manipulated by his political opponents into him insulting US forces. Republicans and even a few so-called Democrats condemned Kerry, a veteran who won three purple hearts in Vietnam, for apparently insulting the intelligence of American soldiers. Democrats like Hillary Clinton, one of his potential rivals for the nomination in 2008:
"What Senator Kerry said was inappropriate and I believe we can't let it divert us from looking at the issues that are at stake in our country."
This was politics at its worse. Hillary certainly knew that Kerry was not insulting the troops. However, rather than standing up for her fellow Democrat colleague in the senate, she took the coward's way out and only added fire to this non-controversy. Or maybe she sensed a way to get a potential presidential rival out of her way.
Well, if the latter is the case, it worked. Kerry ended up apologizing for something he never said. Two months later, after opinion polls had shown his personal approval ratings had cratered to a record low, Kerry announced that he would not run for president in 2008.
Hillary Clinton has zero loyalty to anyone but herself and her political ambitions. She might end up getting my vote for the only reason that the other options are even more awful, but she will never get my respect and I will never be proud to call her "president".
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