2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary Seeks NEO-CON Shelter (against the Sanders storm) [View all]John Poet
(2,510 posts)in this thread.
I guess they're finding it too hard to defend the indefensible,
so they're avoiding kicking this thread.
That would mean that this is a very potent line of attack against her.
It appears I've also been making a mistake about Hillary...
Regarding her vote to enable Bush to make war against Iraq,
I have been giving her credit for political cowardice and calculation...
That is, I believed she felt she had to vote for it because she knew she would seek the presidency,
and could not afford to "appear weak", partly because she is a woman,
but that if she could have voted her true convictions, she would have voted 'no'.
The content of this article has made it clear to me that no,
she actually DID vote her convictions to go to war in Iraq.
She was FOR it all along... because she really IS
a Neocon on foreign policy, and kept pushing President Obama
in that direction during her entire tenure at the State Department.
This is starting to look like a major deal-breaker for me, a tipping point.
If she does manage to become the Democratic party nominee,
then I am going to have a major problem... bigger than the one I had before.