Cenk Uygur: Has Hillary ever led the charge against Bush?

yurbud

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Sun Jan-13-08 12:36 PM
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Cenk Uygur: Has Hillary ever led the charge against Bush?

Cenk Uygur

The Real Case Against Hillary Clinton

Posted January 13, 2008

Other than being ridiculous, this criticism also misses the real problem with Senator Clinton. There is ample ground on which to criticize the junior Senator from New York. She has surrounded herself with accomodationists and triangulators. Her advisors seem to constantly tell her to give half a loaf to the George Bush and Dick Cheney led Republicans until almost the whole loaf is gone.

Other critics have done a better job of analyzing her advisors and her triangulation better than I can hope to do here. So, I want to focus on the one overwhelming problem with Hillary Clinton.

She claims that George W. Bush is the worst president we've ever had. Yet in her entire time in the Senate she has never led one successful fight against him. She has either lost every legislative battle on Iraq, or worse yet, been complicit. The vote to authorize the war was one thing, but how about all of the votes to continue and support Bush's war for all of the remaining years? Let alone every other issue on which Bush got exactly what he wanted, up to and including this year, when the Democrats and Senator Clinton were theoretically in charge.

I understand that leaders are supposed to lead. Yet, I have never seen Senator Clinton lead her fellow Democrats in a successful challenge of President Bush. Never. That's a pretty awful record.

Now, it would be one thing if George Bush was a popular president who was hard to defeat politically. But in fact, he is the opposite. He is the most deeply unpopular president of our lifetimes. And Hillary Clinton kept getting her ass kicked by that guy.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-real-case-against-hil_b_81248.html">FULL TEXT

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babylonsister

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Sun Jan-13-08 12:53 PM
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1. Ouch, but his observations deserve some attention. nt

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ihavenobias

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Sun Jan-13-08 01:24 PM
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2. Very Interesting

also interesting how people are able to modify text size and font...I still have a lot to learn about DU!

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rateyes

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Sun Jan-13-08 02:12 PM
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3. There is an HTML lookup table link above the subject

Edited on Sun Jan-13-08 02:13 PM by rateyes

line of each post you create. Cut and paste what you want to do and then replace the word "Text" with your own text.

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ihavenobias

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Sun Jan-13-08 02:55 PM
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4. You left out the VERY important beginning of the article!

Because it explains to skeptical readers that he's not just some Hillary basher (click the link for hyperlinks that explain this further)

"I have spent a lot of time defending Hillary Clinton over the last couple of weeks because of the silly nature of the attacks against her. The infamous "crying" episode is the most obvious example of this phenomenon.

When it comes to the absurd personality based coverage of the major media outlets, she can't catch a break. They can't make up their minds whether she laughed or cried too much or too little. The only thing that is guaranteed is that she is guilty of all of the above, no matter what..."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cenk-uygur/the-real-case-against-hil_b_81248.html

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yurbud

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Sun Jan-13-08 04:08 PM
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5. that is significant

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rAVES

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Sun Jan-13-08 05:45 PM
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6. Cenk hates Women.. and the Children...

:sarcasm:

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ihavenobias

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Sun Jan-13-08 06:09 PM
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7. and puppies and kittens

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