Sen. Hillary Clinton finally addressed John Murtha’s Iraq redeployment proposal yesterday. Boldly, the Senator declared she was opposed to withdrawal but also opposed to remaining. Further, she is opposed to making any firm decisions for the time being.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that an immediate U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq would be “a big mistake.”
While professing “the greatest respect” for Rep. John P. Murtha, D-Pa., the ex-Marine who has called for a pullout, the New York Democrat said, “I think that would cause more problems for us in America.”
On the other hand, she said, the administration’s pledge to stay in Iraq “until the job is done” amounts to giving the Iraqis “an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves.”
The right approach, Clinton suggested, would be for the United States to await Iraq’s Dec. 15 elections for a clue about how soon the Iraqis can take over.
I wonder if she employs people to come up with positionless positions that don’t say shit but don’t scare away the swing voters, or if it just comes naturally.
Update update: See Avedon, “And the Truth Will Set You Free.”
If Democrats would spend more time reading The Left Coaster and Political Animal and less time listening to the tediously bland fraidy-cats they use as political consultants, they would know more, have plenty of verbal karate at their fingertips, and be prepared for all the lies that come out of the RNC. …
…We’ve been offering Democrats, for free, better advice than they’ve been paying for over the last several years, and their response has been to let the GOP convince them that anyone who disagrees with rabid right-wing talking points is some kind of loony. They can dismiss us as mere bloggers even while the Republicans make terrific use of their own “mere” bloggers. They use their resources while convincing Democrats to shun their own. And Democrats fall for it.
I hope more Democrats and Independents wake up to what she is doing. It’s John Kerry all over again. When will they learn to have courage to say what they really think? I think Kerry could have fired up the voting public if he stated that he was lied into his Iraq War vote and that it was a mistake. Not only was the evidence skewed but he should have reminded people that it was not a vote to go to war, but supposedly to avoid the war by bringing the UN back to Iraq for inspections. At the very least, people would be seeing that he is right now, and he would have promising prospects for 2008. Now all I and most see is that he couldn’t say it until he saw Edwards say it and get away with it.
This is one reason why I like Feingold so much. He always says what he means and does what he thinks is right, even when I don’t agree with him.
right on to Russ Feingold, Donna!!
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I soooo do not want Hillary as the ’08 nominee. Another version of Clinton fatigue is not the cure for the mess that Bush will be leaving behind. Until now, the party elites and the media have been trying to ram her down our throats by making her seem a fait accompli, nearly 3 years away from the convention. Maybe their new infatuation with Mark Warner will cool this off for a while.