Instead of tearing down Hillary Clinton...

[Warren DeMontague]

80. Yes, and I'm perfectly happy to have this conversation-- Again. Even though

I've had it a number of times on DU, already.

I've been here since spring 2004, so anyone so inclined can go back and look at the archives, but here's the condensed version: I supported Kerry in the Primaries, because at that time I bought into the line that having a decorated war hero with a record of being "tough on terror" would inoculate us from Bush's cynical use of 9-11. I was wrong, and not long after the election I did a lot of soul-searching and came to the conclusion, and acknowledged I was wrong on that-- in retrospect I felt we should have run someone with the ability- particularly by not having voted for the thing- to speak with moral clarity on the subject of Bush's Iraq invasion.

Maybe Howard Dean would have lost, too, but it would have presented the American people with a clearer, a better, choice.

So yes, I supported Kerry in the Primaries and I supported him as the Democratic Nominee just as I support the Democratic Nominee every 4 years, TYVM... but after that I was pretty well convinced that in 2008 we had to run someone who hadn't voted for the war, which was one of my biggest objections to HRC then. The fact that she refused (then) to call it a "mistake" AND the fact that she- and her supporters- were running on little more than "inevitability", didn't help.

Now, is the IWR a deal-breaker for me in the 2016 primaries? Hardly. (And, again, standard disclaimer, I always support the damn nominee) but is it still an issue? Yes, it is.