Sunday, February 17, 2008
Chelsea Clinton gets snarky
Chelsea Clinton was out campaigning for her mother in Wisconsin when she fielded a blunt question from the audience. I thought he answer was not only snarky, it was quite telling. From the New York Times:
“Has your mother shown any remorse for the fact that her vote cost Iraqis a million of their lives?” a student asked Chelsea Clinton on Monday at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Ms. Clinton replied: “She cast a vote based on the best available evidence. Perhaps you had clairvoyance then, and that’s extraordinary.”
The fact of the matter is that Hillary constantly harps on the point that she has more experience then her opponent. I guess that would mean something if she had a track record of being right about things.
She has a lot of experience in being wrong.
She was wrong about her husband having a sexual relationship with a 22 year old intern. She blamed a vast right-wing conspiracy, not that her husband had resumed his adulterous ways. He obviously didn’t have a clue that her husband was getting it on with one of his interns. She was not only wrong, she lacked the imagination to even contemplate that something was wrong. Remember, it wasn’t the first time her husband had strayed.
She was then wrong about Iraq. Not only was she wrong, she refuses to now admit her vote was wrong. The only thing worse then someone who gets something wrong is someone who refuses to admit their mistakes. You can’t learn from your mistakes if you can’t first admit — even to yourself — that you’ve made a mistake.
Hillary Clinton doesn’t seem to grasp that concept.
It seems Chelsea Clinton seems doesn’t realize some of us actually thought it was a mistake to invade Iraq from the very beginning. Twenty-one Democratic senators voted against H.J.Res. 114. None of those senators had magical powers. They were right. Chelsea’s mother was wrong.
We don’t need a president with experience in always being wrong. I think we’ve had more then enough of that type of president.
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