With her speech today, HRC made herself the pro-slaughter candidate. [View all]

[Ken Burch]

That's what pledging to do "whatever it takes" means on "keep(ing) this country safe".

I wanted to wish her well on her entrance into the race, but her decision to run on Scoop Jackson and LBJ's foreign policy makes it imperative for all Democrats who want this party to actually be different than the Republicans to work against her nomination.

A war president can't be progressive in actual action(she or he can be personally progressive, yet will be unable to do anything progressive). What LBJ did to the Great Society after the summer of 1965 proves this.

Powerless groups can't make any real gains while this country remains at war. What happened to the black freedom movement and to the United Farm Workers while we stayed in Vietnam proves that.

War can't be feminist and can never again liberate women(or anyone else). The failure of any women anywhere in the Arab/Muslim world to gain any freedom at all from U.S. military intervention proves this.

War is now the enemy of everything that progressive and humane people stand for.

If we want a progressive administration, we must fight to get the Democratic Party to renounce the idea that the U.S. is, as Phil Ochs one put it "The Cops Of The World."

She should just have talked about domestic issues today and left the rest of the world alone.