Bird-Dogging Hillary Clinton

[Raster]

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0901-32.htm

by Nancy Kricorian

In November 2005 Hillary Rodham Clinton sent out a fundraising letter to her constituents. “Part of my job is being a good listener,” she wrote, going on to describe all the good listening she does as the junior senator from New York. She concluded, “Now I’d like to listen to you.”

In the envelope with the letter was a three-page, 18-question “2005 Critical National Issues Survey” addressing a range of topics from jobs to homeland security to separation of church and state. Not one question in the survey mentioned the war in Iraq—an omission that came as no surprise to those of us at the New York chapter of CODEPINK Women for Peace.

At the time Hillary prepared her “questionnaire,” close to 2,300 U.S. troops and more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians had died, and polls showed that most Americans were worried about the war and its ill effects, including rising prices at the gas pump. But somehow, Hillary and her handlers thought that ignoring the war was the strategically smart thing to do. And they were right.

It turns out that Hillary has done a tremendous job—of getting New York Democrats to assume that because right-wing Republicans hate her she must oppose the war. Most New York Democratic voters also don’t realize that she co-sponsored an amendment to ban flag-burning, is against marriage equality for gays and lesbians, supports the death penalty, votes consistently for Star Wars appropriations and has served on the board of Wal-Mart for six years. Yet, she is consistently touted as the “liberal Democrat from New York.”

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[William769]

1. Hate to break it to you but there are some miss truths in that article.

[wakeme2008]

2. Well point them out

:)

[Raster]

3. Please, point them out. And please provide proof they are "miss truths"

[sipsake]

4. Splitting hairs

Technically, Hillary didn't sponsor an ammendment to the constitution, she sponsored a statute. Moynihan, Edwards, Graham, Kerry and other democrats voted for it as well. Hillary voted against a constitutional ammendment.

Sen. Clinton voted to pass fiscal defense spending authorizations, not "star wars" appropriations. These defense spending authorizations are voted on every year and yes some of them have included funding the strategic missle defense system. In 2004, Senator Byrd was the only Democrat to vote against the spending authorization.

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