Dear Senator Clinton,
You have had many chances to revise your story about your terrible vote to authorize President Bush to attack Iraq. Others in the Senate, 23 Senators as I recall, voted to not grant him that authority. Since that time several other Senators have openly regretted their vote for invasion, including three Democrats who ran against you for the 2008 nomination and one who was the Democratic standard-bearer in 2004. Maybe their public misgivings sank their candidacies. Maybe that is your calculated judgment.
Is it that you don't have misgivings about your vote, or that you are fabricating history to support your vote and have no intention of backing down about it. At one point you claimed that you simply believed your President. Gosh. If this is the case you will continue to inspire Obama supporters to send him more money. And if you count on winning them over after getting the nomination you will be in for a surprise.
Why not acknowledge that people learn from mistakes. In fact, they are wiser than those who claim always to have been right - like Obama does now and McGovern did a generation earlier. You can say you believe in reparation, that you have a moral responsibility to remedy the damage your vote caused. You can say that is why you must be elected, not just to clean up the mess made by Bush, but the mess to which you actively and even avidly contributed. In saying that you will clean up your own mess you will be winning support of many more voters because you will show, not just say, that you have integrity.
Hello, who cares about people? The doctor stated that Hillary did not have cameras or photographers with her. She was walking around with one special agent and looked like an average citizen. When Bush came, the medical units had to evacuate for three days, not treating the 50-70 people per hour, so that no one would assassinate him. Yeah, right.
Shall we even bring up Katrina!
Do research, get the facts: Hillary Clinton always does!
The trouble with young voters, they have no memories. Therefore they must do their own research and not be spoon fed what others want you to believe.
An excellent open letter, indeed. And excellent advice to the Senator from NY. Agape.
As I recall only 13 members of the senate voted against the resolution.
What's most striking to me is the hateful, vicious, insulting curses that Obama and Edwards supporters heap on this woman. You people are really sick.
And to you fools who keep saying that you will never vote for Hillary in the general election, let me say in a way you've made a convert. After listening to the vicious tone of Obama supporters I've decided that I will never vote for Obama in the general election. Now we can all pick up our marbles and go home from the playground.
Here comes President McCain.
Who had the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate in 2007? Obama.
Let that sink in.
Obama beat Dennis Kucinich for that honor? Wow!
Obama beat the first American socialist senator, Bernie Sanders? Wow!
So ... the most liberal member of the Senate is going to unite this country. Those who believe that have either smoked something or have drunk the koolaide.
Which former Democratic presidential candidate also had the most liberal voting record? McGovern.
Did McGovern win? No. In fact ... McGovern's candidacy is about the time that Republicans turned liberal into a four letter word -- weak.
Supposedly the US is, in general, to the right of center. To win the presidency, you have to have moderates and independents.
How many of those to the right of center moderates and independents are going to vote for the most liberal senator in the country? How many will vote for Obama when his opponent is a moderate, to the right of center, straight talker?
What is the most important thing for Democrats in the 2008 election? To win!!!
Clinton has all sorts of problems. But ... her problems pale when compared to someone who has earned his ranking as the most liberal senator in the senate.
The feeding frenzy of the media seems to have blinders on. It brings to mind OJ, Jessica Simpson, Spears and "the rush to war". If you aren't for Obama then you're not for change. If you aren't for the War in Iraq then you are unpatriotic.
It's the same thing.
Electability and being able to do something once in office are the keys. The most liberal Senator in the Senate doesn't fit that definition.
If this country is going to unite it's foundation will come from the middle. If this country is going to find common ground and make the compromises needed to move forward, the most liberal Senator in the Senate will not be the conductor.
Someone else will be leading the band.
This vote has been spun so much by so many, from every corner, that few people - and fewer candidates! - know what the truth of the matter is anymore!
Hillary has nothing to explain or defend in this matter.