Say Anything Blog

Ever get the feeling that some candidates just keep throwing stuff against the wall hoping it sticks??? Here the very latest in Hillary’s core values…

One of the most important decisions that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton made about her bid for the presidency came late last year when she ended a debate in her camp over whether she should repudiate her 2002 vote authorizing military action in Iraq.

Several advisers, friends and donors said in interviews that they had urged her to call her vote a mistake in order to appease antiwar Democrats, who play a critical role in the nominating process. Yet Mrs. Clinton herself, backed by another faction, never wanted to apologize — even if she viewed the war as a mistake — arguing that an apology would be a gimmick.

In the end, she settled on language that was similar to Senator John Kerry’s when he was the Democratic nominee in 2004: that if she had known in 2002 what she knows now about Iraqi weaponry, she would never have voted for the Senate resolution authorizing force.

Yet antiwar anger has festered, and yesterday morning Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.

-PATRICK HEALY New York Times


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/us/politics/18clinton.html?ei=5065&en=cfe53d57d0c788ea&ex=1172379600&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print" title="NY Times">NY Times
After yet another excuse for why she did get us into the war, she sets a 90 day deadline for getting us out!

Feb 17, 2007 — WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the early front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, has called for a 90-day deadline to start pulling American troops from Iraq.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2884209