Left concern about HRC is NOT "hatred"...it's about what we stand for as a party and a country

[Ken Burch]

233. In the last ten years, NOTHING mattered more than the Iraq War. Nothing.

It's not trivial. And it's not possible to both back that war AND be open to any real non-Republican ideas on domestic issues, because backing that war means you want most of the country's resources to be spent on death instead of life.

And, by 2008, there weren't ANY blocs of voters who still backed the war AND had progressive views on anything else. Polling at the time proved this.

Support or opposition the Bush foreign policy defines whether or not you are a decent, moral human being. If you are ok with soaking the streets if Bagdad and Fallujah with blood, you HAVE no humane values. NOTHING outweighs that. Just as, for example, nothing outweighed Johnson's insistence on escalating in Vietnam even though he knew, from the start, that the war was unwinnable. Sometimes, a single issue really IS that important.

If I ever seek the presidency, or any other office(which I won't)I would do so in the expectation that people are allowed to vote for or against me based on whatever matters most to them.