Personal attacks on Clinton: deja vu
Markos essentially declares Senator Hillary Clinton to be a nonstarter. I think he's wasting the netroots political capital; and that decision isn't his to make. Kos argues , I don't want her to apologize. I want her to say, "I made a mistake." Edwards did it. Just about every other Democrat who idiotically trusted this president and supported the war has done it. Had Hillary done this last year, the issue would be moot. And does she really want to argue that her vote wasn't wrong? The thing is, that by insisting that her vote was wrong, Kos is the one who is legitimizing the war , not Hillary. Clinton's position - that she stands by her vote, but in retrospect realizes she was misled by the Administration - is reasonable . The context of the AUMF was that the Administration would try diplomacy, would consult with allies, would allow the inspectors to do their job, etc. That was the case that the Administration made to the Congress, using Colin Powell as t...