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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:44 PM
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Richardson calls NYT to accuse Clinton of ‘flip-flop’ on Iraq
The New York Times Politics Blog

MUSCATINE, Iowa — I just got a phone call — unprompted — from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Democratic candidate for president, blasting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for saying she would withdraw nearly all American troops from Iraq within a year of beginning redeployment.

“Senator Clinton’s comments are a stunning flip-flop — she’s been saying she would keep troops in Iraq for five years, until 2013, and now she comes up with an inconsistent, incredible turnaround,” Mr. Richardson said.

Mrs. Clinton has maintained that she would leave a residual force behind in Iraq to pursue narrow missions, a position that her spokesman said she still holds. As her aides have done before, the spokesman declined to say how many troops Mrs. Clinton would leave.

Mr. Richardson’s poke begs the question: Is he, in fact, uninterested in being Mrs. Clinton’s running mate should she win the nomination? Some Democrats have suspected that he was angling for the job, given the fact that he has heretofore stuck up for her in some of the recent presidential debates.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/richardsonclinton/
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AtomicKitten Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:46 PM
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1. Impossible!! She'd have to actually take a position to flip-flip from it.
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Hieronymus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:46 PM
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2. OMFG, does she think voters are that stupid?
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Ravy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:48 PM
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3. Of course not. Voters are far more stupid than that!!!
She is just exploring the outer edges of voter stupidity.

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pauldg0 Donating Member (608 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:55 PM
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8. EDWARDS ......
...supporters.....we have to educate those undeducated voters out there...

you know, the ones who just don't get it...the dynamics of it all...the ones who have to be tutored to know that John Edwards is really leading the pack against all republicans....

I mean there is a pack of them out there that just want Hillary still just because she is a women and Obama just because he's black.

NOTE....EDWARDS beats the pants off Republicans!!!
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BenDavid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:49 PM
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4. The easy thing all these far left and radical sites do
Edited on Thu Dec-20-07 10:49 PM by BenDavid
is say something negative about HRC and it will be repeated and written about a 1000 times before the truth comes out.
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:51 PM
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7. errr... I think you might be AT a far left site... not sure, but maybe
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K Gardner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:50 PM
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5. I could've sworn I heard something in a debate about 2013... nah, couldn't have been..
I might have to donate to Richardson for that one :-)
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 10:50 PM
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6. OMFG!!

Aw phooey on you Billy boy!
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MethuenProgressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Dec-20-07 11:18 PM
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9. 2013 Is Too Late
Maybe Clinton has been reading Bill Richardson's websites!
www.2013IsTooLate.com
www.thedifferenceoniraq.com
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