Posted on 05/26/2007 6:34:21 AM PDT by kellynla
Democratic presidential hopefuls Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama, both hurtling ever-leftward, covered themselves with the Move-On.org crowd this week by voting against the Iraq war-funding bill because it no longer imposed deadlines for withdrawing U.S. forces. This despite the fact that both maintain they "support our troops" - and, until recently, had rejected the idea of cutting off funding.
And the fact that last year both voted against setting any timetable for troop withdrawals.
In other words, when it comes to deadlines and funding cutoffs, both senators were against it before they were for it.
Though when it comes to the war itself, Hillary was for it before she was against it.
Sen. Clinton seems to take her cues from whatever public-opinion polls are saying at any given moment - particularly those that have her falling behind in Iowa.
As Sen. John McCain rightly noted, what Obama and Clinton did is "adopt the policy of surrender" and "the equivalent of waving a white flag to al Qaeda."
The two Democrats each hope to become the nation's commander-in-chief come January 2009. How would they presume to fight a war, if necessary, with Congress setting artificial deadlines that bear no relation to the actual situation onthe ground?
Let's hope they - and we - never have to find out.
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All paid some, some paid all.
Semper Fi, Kelly
If either of those two have any hopes of winning the democrat primary, they have to appease their nut-roots base and vote this way. Once nominated, they will move toward the center, but these votes will hopefully come back to haunt them.
ping
There is no policy difference between the Rats and the terrorists.
Thanks to video, there will be soooooo much evidence of these “flip-flopping” ‘Rats by 2008 that the GOP should be able to nail the Lefty yellow backsides to the wall.
Semper Fi,
Kelly
Good post joonbug
Gee, you think the NYT has ever noticed this??? Fact is, her husband wouldn't **** unless he had a P.O. Poll saying he should. She's no different. And that'll get people killed.
Charles Krauthammer on the Fox All-Stars (on Brit Hume’s program, but Brit wasn’t there because it was Friday) was of the opinion that Hillary and Obama wouldn’t pay any price for this—by the time the general election rolls around there will be more recent developments and more recent votes which will mean yesterday’s vote will be forgotten.
And the MSM will have conveniently forgotten their past votes as well...
I came close to puking this morning when I saw a clip of Hillary saying how she has always supported the military. I saw how the military was supported when she and that draft dodger were in the white house. Treated people in uniform like second class citizens and personal servants.
These votes will never haunt them. The Republicans decided to forfeit 2008 with the Immigration Bill. I guess they have always envied third party status. I wonder which party will be the second largest party now. A party without a street fighter mentality cannot stay up with the Demoncrats.
Yes. They smartened up a bit later and put on a pretence, but in their early years in the White House, the clintons treated any military personnel assigned to them like dirt. In one instance, Chelsea Clinton, presumably having heard her parents express their opinions of the military, kicked a uniformed aide out of her limo, saying that she wouldn't ride in the same car with him.
Second class citizens, no.
Slaves on the plantation, yes.
Whoring troops out like a pimp, yes.
Anyone who doesn’t understand this has no business running for president.”
Amen and super dittos!
“We demand the withdrawal of the occupation forces, or the creation of a timetable for such a withdrawal,” he said, wiping sweat from his brow with a white cloth as temperatures hovered at 113 degrees. “I call upon the Iraqi government not to extend the occupation even for a single day.” - Radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr
So terrorists are now writing the scripts for American political campaigns? What tripe!
she has always supported the military
guess it depends on what her definition is “support” is
Senator John Edwards released the following statement today following Congress' passage of an Iraq war funding bill.
"Washington failed America today when Congress surrendered to the president's demand for another blank check that prolongs the war in Iraq. It is time for this war to end.
"Congress should immediately use its funding power to cap troop levels in Iraq at 100,000, stop the ongoing surge, and force an immediate drawdown of 40-50,000 troops, followed by a complete withdrawal in about a year.
"The American people's call for a new course in Iraq was not answered today, but Congress still has the power to end this war. Our security and democracy alike demand it."
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