Mark’s Soap Box

Mrs Bill Clinton, Barrack Hussein Obama say FU troops

Hillary Clinton finally took a stand ……… AGAINST the troops. She just doomed her chances of winning a General Election. Obama was never a serious contender and he just proved he is a light-weight wannabe.

Hillary then went on to spin (read lie) her way out of the vote.

“I fully support our troops” but the measure “fails to compel the president to give our troops a new strategy in Iraq,” said Clinton, a New York senator.

No you don’t, you support your bid for the Democrat nomination which requires you to placate the nutroots.

Obama lied also.

“Enough is enough,” Obama, an Illinois senator, declared, adding that
President Bush should not get “a blank check to continue down this same, disastrous path.”

This spin of the “blank check” is permeating the nutroots community. There is not blank check, and there is a time limit. This is just posturing by someone who knew the measure would pass, and took advantage of it to feign support of the radical anti-war nutroots cabal. Ditto for Clinton.

Both Clinton and Obama had remained publicly uncommitted in the hours before the vote. Neither were on the Senate floor as voting began. Halfway through, Obama walked into the chamber and cast his “no” vote. Clinton did the same a few minutes later.

Why did they do this?

Both Clinton and Obama have faced intense pressure from the party’s liberal wing and Democratic presidential challengers who urged opposition to the measure because it doesn’t include a timeline to pull forces out of Iraq.

Other hypocrites voting.

Sen. Christopher Dodd (D CT) who also voted against the legislation, was among the Democratic candidates calling for rejection of it, along with former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.

Richardson and Edwards are desperate for traction in the primary race. Dodd is just a nut.

At least Joe Biden has some backbone.

Of the four Democratic hopefuls in the Senate, only Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware supported the bill. He said he did so reluctantly because he viewed the measure as flawed. But he added: “As long as we have troops on the front lines, it is our shared responsibility to give them the equipment and protection they need.”

Joe Biden just doomed the 1% chance he had of winning the primary race for the Dem spot.

With their “no” votes, Clinton, Obama and Dodd earned praise from the party’s left flank, which has been pushing for a quick end to the war and is an important part of the Democratic base in the primaries.

“This bold stand by three of the four presidential candidates in the Senate won’t soon be forgotten,” promised Eli Pariser, executive director of MoveOn.org’s political action committee.

That is true. I can see the ads for the Republican now.