Flashback: "Please Sen. Clinton, Vote NO on this War!"

[Yollam]

Ah, those were the days...

War protesters hole up inside Sen. Clinton's New York office

http://web.archive.org/web/20021016070318/http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ny--warprotest-clinto1010oct10,0,5594946.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire

A majority of New Yorkers oppose invading Iraq without international support, and seven out of 10 fear a terrorist retaliation against the city if war breaks out.

http://nydailynews.com/front/story/56116p-52508c.html


http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=28742
A majority of New Yorkers oppose war in Iraq, but many of the city's politicians are now standing behind the president as military action begins in the Middle East. Even the City Council may modify its anti-war stand.


http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0242,ferguson,39218,6.html

Prior to the vote, both Clinton and fellow senator Chuck Schumer were flooded with calls from New Yorkers, most urging them to oppose war.

"The letters to the editor have been running three to one against the war, and Hillary somehow thinks a vote for the war is representing her constituents?" asked Sarah Grey, a 21-year-old graduate student at the New School. "There's no accountability."



Her vote came as a HUGE disappointment to me. Dems in red states may have had an excuse, but not senator Clinton.



ON EDIT: That being said, Clinton's statements on the war in recent days have been a major improvement. I hope she is setting herself up for a candidacy that the anti-war left can actually get behind.

[Yollam]

1. Hillary Deserves some credit, by the way.

She says she regrets giving GiggleKill the authority to go to war.

If only Kerry had said the same thing in Oct. 2004 when he had the chance.

[MrBenchley]

2. LOL....

"Five demonstrators....Three women among them wore wigs _ one red, one white and one blue _ and strapped aluminum foil models of missiles around their waists. The foil missiles each bore a small American flag. "

Hard to see why somebody wouldn't listen to a huge crowd like that.

[Yollam]

3. Thousands of calls to her office, three to one AGAINST the IWR.

But nice cherry-picking, just the same.

[MrBenchley]

4. Not even the loons at the Village Voice claim that....

In fact, you'll notice they carefully avoided numbers....

By the way, you still haven't explained what the City Council has to do with this....

[Yollam]

6. The Village Voice are "loons" now?

What does that make DU?

[MrBenchley]

7. Geeze, don't cry to me because your source has no credibility

[Yollam]

8. Where I'm from the Village Voice has more credibilty...

...than Judith Miller's New York Whore Times.

But I'm can see where you're coming from.

[Yollam]

5. 25 Thousand Jam Central Park to say 'NO!' to the IWR - Oct 6 2002

http://www.notinourname.net/reports/2002_oct6/oct6_nyc.htm



http://www.thenation.com/doc/20021028/featherstone