“Like Bill campaigning as a populist and governing as a corporatist, Hillary’s stump speech proclaims she’ll end the Iraq war in January 2009, while she assures the New York Times of a long-term U.S. military presence inside Iraq. She’s tried to explain away her vote to authorize the war, but avoids mention of her even more dubious vote hours earlier against requiring United Nations approval (or, if U.N. approval failed, a second Congressional authorization) before war could begin. Her overall bellicosity on Iran and the Middle East wins praise from conservative pundits; her “Israel-right-or-wrong” stance could make Christian Zionists blush.
In too much of the liberal blogosphere, history begins with the Florida election theft of 2000, and events before that time seem ancient and irrelevant. There is insufficient grasp of how the Clintons’ rise to power was intertwined with the corporate-sponsored Democratic Leadership Council—set up 22 years ago to weaken the power of the grassroots (labor, feminist, civil rights) inside the party. Still on the attack in 2004, the DLC targeted new villains, like MoveOn and the Dean upsurge.
2) They want to be Democratic “team players.”
Matt Bai’s new book on the Democratic Party, The Argument, has a passing reference to Hillary Clinton’s courtship of MoveOn leaders in private meetings: “Her charm appeared to have paid off: while MoveOn’s members remained furious at Clinton for voting with Bush on the war resolution, its leaders refused to criticize her publicly.”
In truth, MoveOn leaders have gone beyond refusing to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton - actually finding bizarre excuses to praise her on some of her worst issues, like Iran and Iraq. During the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in New York, it was not a shock that MoveOn’s leadership would not help Clinton’s antiwar challenger, Jonathan Tasini, an under-funded long shot. But what purpose was served by not criticizing her when she brazenly refused to even debate Tasini on the war - or by lauding her for a McCain-like critique of Don Rumsfeld’s war “mismanagement”?
With MoveOn avoiding criticism of Clinton in ‘05, ‘06 and half of ‘07, then when?”
buckbatard on Sep 07
“Like Bill campaigning as a populist and governing as a corporatist, Hillary’s stump speech proclaims she’ll end the Iraq war in January 2009, while she assures the New York Times of a long-term U.S. military presence inside Iraq. She’s tried to explain away her vote to authorize the war, but avoids mention of her even more dubious vote hours earlier against requiring United Nations approval (or, if U.N. approval failed, a second Congressional authorization) before war could begin. Her overall bellicosity on Iran and the Middle East wins praise from conservative pundits; her “Israel-right-or-wrong” stance could make Christian Zionists blush.
In too much of the liberal blogosphere, history begins with the Florida election theft of 2000, and events before that time seem ancient and irrelevant. There is insufficient grasp of how the Clintons’ rise to power was intertwined with the corporate-sponsored Democratic Leadership Council—set up 22 years ago to weaken the power of the grassroots (labor, feminist, civil rights) inside the party. Still on the attack in 2004, the DLC targeted new villains, like MoveOn and the Dean upsurge.
2) They want to be Democratic “team players.”
Matt Bai’s new book on the Democratic Party, The Argument, has a passing reference to Hillary Clinton’s courtship of MoveOn leaders in private meetings: “Her charm appeared to have paid off: while MoveOn’s members remained furious at Clinton for voting with Bush on the war resolution, its leaders refused to criticize her publicly.”
In truth, MoveOn leaders have gone beyond refusing to publicly criticize Hillary Clinton
- actually finding bizarre excuses to praise her on some of her worst issues, like Iran and Iraq. During the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in New York, it was not a shock that MoveOn’s leadership would not help Clinton’s antiwar challenger, Jonathan Tasini, an under-funded long shot. But what purpose was served by not criticizing her when she brazenly refused to even debate Tasini on the war -or by lauding her for a McCain-like critique of Don Rumsfeld’s war “mismanagement”?With MoveOn avoiding criticism of Clinton in ‘05, ‘06 and half of ‘07, then when?”
It probably won’t.
http://alternet.org/mediaculture/61882/?page=2