The last of Obama's serious competitors for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton, has put in more time in Washington, and she has the scars to prove it. As an activist first lady and more recently as the senator from New York, Clinton has fought her share of battles with "the vast right-wing conspiracy" that she so famously named. But she has too often seemed to fight for power as opposed to principle. She supported the draconian welfare reforms and the fundamentally flawed free trade deals promoted by Bill Clinton's administration, she voted in the Senate for the Patriot Act and the resolution authorizing George Bush to take the country to war with Iraq, and as a presidential candidate she has condoned an often crude and divisive campaign.
Clinton's record is longer. But it is not commendable.
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