2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Boy! I Remember Now Why I DISLIKE Hillary Clinton So Much- 'SHOUTING' [View all]Rilgin
(787 posts)She is not any woman. Noway. She is a woman who has had a number of wrong votes in her career that should have ended her forward motion in politics. It is mindblowing that the Democratic Party keeps nominating politicians who voted for the Iraq War. '
They are not criminals like some of the Republicans who sold us the war. However, this was the most momentous vote in the last 20 years. In many ways it has shaped our world. Hillary and the other democrats like her, held their finger in the wind, and made a political judgement about the political consequences of voting for that war. I am sure they did not believe it would end up the disaster for the middle east that it did but their vote was a political calculation. Since it ended up on the wrong side of history, the consequence for this should be that the politicians who voted wrong should bite the bullet and not be rewarded by becoming president. The cost for such bad votes really should be their ambitions.
However, instead of looking her decisions squarely in the eye and just becoming a statewoman, she has used power politics and money to continue her ambition.
What makes it worse, is she threatens the democratic party by not recognizing that her past votes divide the democratic party and her past lies, reinventions, and history engage the republican mind.