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What about leadership? (none / 0) (#217)
by Alec82 on Wed May 07, 2008 at 04:37:57 PM EST
"HRC's position on the Iraq war is much more mainstream than Obama's. She's where most Americans are, and always has been."

 Not exactly leadership, though, is it?

"Obama pretends to have been anti-Iraq war on the basis of a speech, but his actions once in the Senate say differently."

 I assume when he spoke in 2002 he was not "pretending" to be against a war that was popular enough at the time to gain support from half of the Democratic senators.  And the position one takes against a war is very much unrelated to strategy and funding for the execution of a war.  

"She has worked hard to strengthen her national security credentials, and she has shown she can be "tough" by voting for the AUMF."

 That has always been a problem with her for me.  I wonder sometimes if she overcompensates, at least on rhetoric, because she is female and a Democrat.  I am uniniterested in leaders who feel they need to have "tough" policies with respect to crime and war because that is what Americans want.  That attitude leads to disastrous policies.  See, for example, our prisons and criminal justice system, the Iraq war and the Patriot Act, as well as the debate over FISA.  

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Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread | 219 comments (219 topical)

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