Senator Hillary Clinton Booed at Liberal Conference
AP reports that Senator Clinton orated, "I do not think it is a smart strategy...for the president to continue with his open-ended commitment, which I think does not put enough pressure on the new Iraqi government. Nor do I think it is smart strategy to set a date certain. I do not agree that that is in the best interests." In response, AP reports that Clinton's comments prompted " loud booing" by a large portion of the several thousand attendees.
The Take Back America Conference is sponsored mainly by TomPaine.com, a leading progressive think-tank. Other prominent speakers included Senator John Kerry, House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid, actor/activist Robert Redford and progressive journalist Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor & publisher of The Nation.
At the same conference, Senator Kerry said to loud applause, "(It is time to) end a war in Iraq that weakens the nation each and every day it goes on."
And the crowd went wild when Senator Harry Reid walked up on to the stage and and he got a lengthy standing ovation after finishing his 15-minute speech, in which he proclaimed that "We have to start to bring our troops home. This is the fourth year of this war....We cannot continue to be bogged down in Iraq...."
By continuing to not call for withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, Senator Clinton ignores the will of most Democrats, as well as 59% of the American public, who believe that the Iraq War is a mistake.
Seems like an oddly unsuccessful way to position ones' self as a presidential candidate for 2008.
Had I been at the conference today at the DC Hilton, I, too, would have booed Senator Clinton. She's wrong, offbase and out-of-touch. We need bold leaders, not wafflers.
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Comments
Just deserves. I can’t belielve the so-called liberals on this forum are ready to look past Artilley Hillary’s “mistakes” while that’s preciseey the argument Bush, et al. are maing- they acted on faulty intelligence.
Even if it was a mistake to go into Iraq, and it was, we did. Those 59% of the American people need to realize that we began something and we must see it through to the end. Otherwise we may as well teach all of our children that it is ok to start something, and if it doesn’t go how you planned just give up, hurting the others involved in the process.
TAKE YOUR MEDS, RICKY
Yeah, to the end, just like the nazi’s did.
Just a suggestion for your self betterment, be a little more analytical. I know this is a blog, but come on don’t just be another bitch that thinks everything the think matters. Also, umm democrats or more specifically, those who follow the liberal philosophy are puppets and idiots. Read some history and then read some current news and you will see the correlation between liberalism and socialism.