Comments on: Clinton Repudiates Iraq Vote

By: Rena

Rena — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:40:43 +0000

I know that Chris Matthews and Keith Olbermann on MSNBC certainly talked about it.

By: steveeboy

steveeboy — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:19:57 +0000

oh, but she only “regrets” it.

she needs to “reject” it and “denounce” it or else she just isn’t ready to be commander-in-chief!

I notice a pattern here, she says she disagrees with things but she doesn’t seem to ever do anything about those things at the time, only later when it begins to impact her politically.

She has a record of really bad judgment and really bad political maneuvering–funny that I NEVER see her little flag burning pander discussed on here.

Not to mention that in all of these discussions of health care, no one ever mentions that she had her chance in the 1990s and BLEW IT due to her own stubbornness and failure to realize that incremental change is how the biggest battles are won in DC–see, for example, desegregation.

By: snuzy mandrake

snuzy mandrake — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:38:54 +0000

yeah, i noticed that too during the debate. i’m really glad she did it. better late than never. it made no sense to me at all why she dodged the question before.

By: votermom

votermom — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:31:09 +0000

I did notice that. I didn’t watch the debate, but I saw some clips, and I did see the one about what do you regret and she names that vote. From the transcript:

MODERATOR: …. Looking back through them, is there any words or votes you’d like to take back?
Senator Clinton?

CLINTON: Well, obviously, I’ve said many times that, although my vote on the 2002 authorization regarding Iraq was a sincere vote, I would not have voted that way again.
I would never, as president, have taken us into war in Iraq. And I regret deeply that President Bush waged a preemptive war, which I warned against and said I disagreed with.