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In reply to the discussion: The debate over whether Hillary should be our candidate is over... [View all]CoffeeCat
(24,411 posts)She is part of the problem. She's a hawk. She's also a neocon sympathizer.
In 1996, a gaggle of neocons wrote President Bill Clinton, begging them for war with Iraq. President Clinton rebuffed their pleas. Then, those same neocons who begged Clinton for war--Rumseld, Wolfowitz, Armitage, etc--are installed in George Bush's Administration. This time they have the power to go to war themselves. They didn't need to ask Bill Clinton for permission.
Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq war, knowing (better than anyone), that these wolves had come around and asked for the same war from her husband. She voted for it anyway. She could have made the point that the neocons had been shopping around this war for years, and now they were using lie-based intelligence and Sept 11 fear to get what they wanted. She was silent.
She also participated in banging the war drum for Iran.
I can't stand her.
I'm from Iowa, and I saw what she was like. She can't win Iowa. We rejected her with 3rd place--behind Obama and Edwards. Hillary found it impossible to be authentic; refusing to participate in small-venue speeches or answer questions. She held a Q&A, but it was discovered that the questions were from planted staffers. I'm not kidding. Iowa Democrats remember this. We don't want her.
I can't think of any Dem candidate that I want less.