Posted on 02/06/2007 12:28:47 AM PST by neverdem
This alone could doom her chances of being elected.
If the Democrats had their way, we'd issue an indictment for every terrorist who attacks us, and then pray that the terrorist walks into a police station and turns himself in.
Sure... The Democrats are about as sane as King George.
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"If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will."
She better hope things are REAL quiet between now and then. That statement was a BIG gamble - and not a bright one. It really has no significant up side but a potentially huge downside.
Only way I can see her calculation on this is that any Democrat will be elected in Nov. and her real task it to win the Dem Primary.
And she's willing to run far left to get it.
Either that or she figures she can always change her mind - again.
:)
I think in Hillary's eyes, it's no gamble at all. She's intimately aware of just how short the memory of the American public is. She's not so much making campaign "promises"...she's running up trial balloons to gauge a response and to see who wants to hear what so she can shovel it to them. (Same thing with the whole take-the-obscene-profit-made-by-Big-Oil-and-spend-it-on-alternative-fuel-development.) She learned a thing or two from Mr. Rodham Clinton about governing by the polling data!
But soon enough it will apparent for all to see.
Even Ms. Clinton.
BUMP
Hillary intends to be our Commander In Chief. That's all folks !
What she said:
"If I had been president in 2002, I would not have started this war."
What she meant:
"But since I was in the Senate instead, I did vote for this war."
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"She better hope things are REAL quiet between now and then. That statement was a BIG gamble - and not a bright one. It really has no significant up side but a potentially huge downside."
Reverse it. If she is elected President and she doesn't bring the troops home, the MSM will never bring to light her original statement. What they will bring to light is her vote for the war.
Hillary never says anything that hasn'r been scripted, polled and tested.
Actually, Hillary was president, or at least co-president, when the "war" started.
The "war" was started by Islamic terrorists during the first Clinton administration. Hillary's husband did nothing, and it escalated to the point where America had to act.
During the second Clinton administration (heaven forbid!), will Hillary sit idly by as Islamic extremists continue to extort and terrorize their way to greater world power? Let's hope we never have to find out.
Hillary might follow Kennedy's advise and seek to resolve everything with diplomacy!!! Big success HUH.
Hillary is smarter than the other Democrats, and tougher than the other Democrats -- I'd still infinitely prefer any Republican to her, but if she were elected I wouldn't expect the government to just roll over and surrender, as it would if any other Democrat were elected.
Eventually, the country is going to wake up and realize that we are at war with ISLAM itself (I don't like this conclusion, but the almost universal silent acquiescence to the jihadists' rhetoric by the "moderate" Muslims EVEN IN THIS COUNTRY WHERE THEY ARE PHYSICALLY SAFE TO SAY WHAT THEY WANT forces me to it).
When that happens, it will rapidly become clear that we do NOT face an existential threat as we did in WWII or the Cold War. It may well take the loss of 1 or 2 U.S. cities, but once that happens it will all be over for the Muslims. The West is enervated and frivolous right now, but it retains, deep down, a bred-in-the-bone capacity for overwhelming violence. Even the wimpy liberals who had been unable to imagine that those motivated primarily by religion could possibly become powerful enough to threaten their modern lifestyle will be just as fierce when the war comes home to them.
Once the U.S.A. comes together on this, it will all be over very quickly indeed.
I'm still waiting for the Victory in the Cold War parties, the Ticker-tape parades, the national holiday...
The Left lost the Cold War so dont look for any joy from them on that
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