With her speech today, HRC made herself the pro-slaughter candidate.

[Ken Burch]

192. "Whatever it takes" is the same thing as saying "I agree with Cheney on foreign policy".

There's no way to come up with a humane, progressive, no militaristic version of that phrase...or at least not one that her corporate funders would tolerate, because they won't allow her to run on a "make the world stable by ending global poverty and exploitation" platform.

It's still about saying "war can SO be liberal" and "it's okay when WE do it".

And she didn't need to talk about any of this at the launch. She could have gone with the good stuff she'd been saying on police brutality and prison reform(issues she won't be able to address while maintaining an interventionist foreign policy and a big war budget).

She made herself the militarist candidate, and did so in a year where Democrats don't have to be militarist to win the White House.