Hillary Clinton voted for what will hopefully remain the greatest war crime of the 21st century: Bush's Iraq War. That makes her automatic HP in my opinion.
Well, are you outraged at Vice President Biden and Senate (now minority) leader Reid? Because they voted for the war as well. I never once heard any angst about them from ANYBODY on the left. Nope, not even the guy a heartbeat away from the presidency. It only seems to matter when it's about Hillary.
I browsed Daily Kos during the time when Obama picked Biden as VP. Nary a peep. Nearly all the responses were either positive (yeah! foreign policy experience!) or neutral. Of the few that were negative, it was more because Biden was a "boring old white guy" and part of the "old guard" as opposed to his vote for the Iraq War.
On the topic of Iraq, I respected her more for her response once it was clear that evidence was fabricated. Unlike Edwards who fell on his knees to beg for forgiveness, she said "yup, I wouldn't have repeated that vote... but I have a responsibility to try to execute it properly".
She didn't deny, with all evidence that it wasn't an error and she didn't run away from it. Frankly, one of the things that irked me about Obama when he was running in 08 was him nailing his 02 statement to the mast about he wouldn't have voted to authorise (how brave) but then ex-sponged the 04 speech when he was running for Senate when he suddenly said 'well, I don't know how I would have voted'.
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