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Bolstering her antiwar creds

Posted: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:33 PM by Mark Murray

From NBC's Athena Jones
Clinton has been highlighting support of Iraq war critics in Congress. In recent days, she mentioned MA Rep. Jim McGovern (D) when in Springfield, MA the other day.

And now Maxine Waters and her "Out of Iraq" group at this debate.

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It is about time Clinton has been challenged on her rationale for voting on the Iraq war authorization!  Her excuse that she thought it was for UN inspections and not necessarily for war is disingenuous.  but lets say for a moment its true.  doesn't this refute her claim to be the most experienced candidate ready for office on the first day?  if she was fooled by Bush to vote for war, you'd have to question not only the quality of experience but her judgement and understanding of foreign affairs.
<<And now Maxine Waters and her "Out of Iraq" group at this debate.>>

Waters thinks Iraq is somewhere in West Virgina.
This whole debate by CNN was a huge Hillary commercial.  Wolf let her get away with everything.  They allowed her more time to answer, and more opportunities.  They cut to commercial after popular statements by her, effectively cutting out any chance for Barack to respond.  Shame on them.
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HOW MANY MORE WARS WILL CLINTON'S "EXPERIENCE" LEAD US INTO?

WHO WILL SACRIFICE THEIR LIFE OR THEIR CHILD FOR HER MISTAKES???????
The so-called undecided voters are hand-picked Hillary supporters. I watched the people-meter from start to finish.

Before Hillary would even start to speak, the people meter already starts going up, regardless of what she's saying. Before Obama even opens his mouth, the people-meter starts going down for the most part and then goes up slightly if he's being really good like on Iraq.

Unbelievable! The dial goes up even when Hillary is dodging the question on the Levin amendment. Rubbish!
HRC once again tried to tie her "35 years" of Clintonian "experience" to the fact that it "took a Clinton to clean up after the first George Bush and how it would take another Clinton to clean up after the current one.  Someone should remind her that because of the misguided and arrogant displays of inappropriate, immoral behavior of "her Bill" that this nation,  so fed up and disgusted by "her Bill's" lying destructive behavior during BOTH of his presidential terms' that this CURRENT Bush was elected in the first place and then reelected.  She can take credit for that DAY ONE.
I was against the war. Obama was against the war. I didn't have a vote. Neither did Obama. What we had was then was opinions. Clinton's context was different. She had a vote. The context is now different. In the today's context, the same field is there any difference
Clinton will never be able to escape the (justified) criticism that she voted for the war before she voted against it.


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