To those who do not like Senator Clinton, I need to ask [View All]

[berni_mccoy]

Why? I really don't understand it. I've seen plenty of bash Clinton threads.

I've seen many try to tie her political stances and planned policies with her husbands less popular policies/changes (NAFTA is a big one for example). I see this as a misperception of former President Clinton's situation as he was forced to work with a Republican majority in Congress, so plenty of things got passed that we didn't like, but plenty of things did too. I believe the next Democratic President elected in 2008 will have a Democratic Controlled Congress to work with. This will allow great change for the positive. Would you really give that up if Clinton wins the Primary?

According to various sources on her political stance on the issues:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton#Political_views

n a Gallup poll conducted during May, 2005, 54% of respondents considered Senator Clinton a liberal, 30% considered her a moderate, and 9% considered her a conservative.<80>
In 2004, the National Journal's study of roll-call votes assigned Clinton a rating of 30 in the political spectrum, relative to the current Senate, with a rating of 1 being most liberal and a rating of 100 being most conservative.<81> The 2006 Almanac of American Politics rated her, with most liberal = 100, most conservative = 0, according to a three-dimensional spectrum: Economic = 63, Social = 82, Foreign = 58. Average = 68.<82> Another analysis by three political scientists found her as likely being the sixth-to-eighth-most liberal Senator.<83>
Hillary Clinton received an "A" on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.<84>

I definitely feel she has changed her tune on Iraq and I don't agree with much of her stance on foreign policy, but I certainly don't have the animosity towards her that I've seen displayed on this site.

She is a democrat, she is liberal, and she has definitely promoted legislation that favors the poor and middle-class more than the wealthy.

Maybe I am not getting it. Is it just her original stance on Iraq that has caused many to treat her like a leper here?

I'm not seeking a flame thread, I really want to understand if it is just Iraq or if it is something that runs deeper. I admit, I did not become potlically interested/active until the 2000 election, so I could be missing some context required to understand this rift.