Hillary 180 prediction thread

[mdmc]

Hello all you political junkies! Since we know that Hillary is going to run for President, I thought that it would be fun to attempt to predict the day when she finally admits that the war was wrong. Her husband called invading Iraq "strong and wrong" all the way back in 2003. On what date will Hillary finally abandon her support of this stupid, preemptive war?

PLEASE PUT THE DATE IN Month / Day / Year FORMAT IN THE SUBJECT LINE OF YOUR REPLY. When will Hillary flip from supporting the war to opposing the war?

[Double T]

1. Hilliary will NEVER flip on the war..............

somehow SHE will morph the 'war' into being necessary with the stipulation that SHE will bring IT to an end 'soon'; basically having IT both ways.

[bobbolink]

5. she's gonna nixonize it? great... what I always wanted in the first

female president.

GAK.

[mdmc]

2. 6-1-2007

She can't get past Kerry / Gore / Edwards without it, imho.

[BayCityProgressive]

3. She will wait right up untill the end

to make sure the situation doesn't improve.

[WI_DEM]

4. It will be her "hail mary" after losing Iowa and the NH primary

but I'm also not convinced she will necessarily run in 2008.

[mdmc]

9. She has more money, she hired staff,

why do you think that she might not run? Perhaps she will run at another time.

[Alamom]

6. A lot of people think she already has.....

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2006/12/hillary_clinton.html


Hillary Clinton Says She Wouldn't Have Voted For Iraq War
December 18, 2006 4:02 PM
ABC News' David Chalian Reports:
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Clinton has often been asked if she regrets her vote authorizing military action and she usually answers that question with an artful dodge, saying that she accepts responsibility for the vote and suggesting that if the Senate had all the information it has today (no WMD, troubled post-war military planning, etc. . .), there would never have been a vote on the Senate floor.
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However, she has never gone as far as some of her potential rivals for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination -- who also voted for the war -- and called her vote a mistake or declared that she would have cast her vote differently with all the facts presently available to her -- until now.
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This morning on NBC's "Today" show, Sen. Clinton was asked about her 2002 vote and offered a slightly evolved answer. "Obviously, if we knew then what we know now, there wouldn't have been a vote," she said in her usual refrain before adding, "and I certainly wouldn't have voted that way."
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As she has long and often said, Senator Clinton believes that if we knew then what we know now, Congress never would have been asked to give the President authority to use force against Iraq, and if the President still asked Congress despite a lack of evidence, the Congress would not have agreed," said Reines.



I believe many others expressed the same when they offered their regrets.

[mdmc]

10. knowing what we know now, we would have skipped Vietnam too

right:shrug:

[Alamom]

11. Absolutely and that can be said about all mistakes which have

been made by the US. Hindsight is always 20 - 20.

[mdmc]

15. so when do you think she will say that the war was "strong and wrong"

or just plain wrong? When will she say that her iwr vote was the one she was least proud of.

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

7. October 2007

[mdmc]

17. kickin

the flip!

[Geek_Girl]

8. 4/5/2007

That's my best guess.

[Clark2008]

12. Oh, but won't the faithful say that she really, really, really had a

change of heart and, even though she didn't sponsor it like some 2008 Dem hopefuls, she really, really, really regrets her vote and that makes it all right?

:crazy:

[TahitiNut]

13. February 2, 2007

Then Hunksatwney Hill will see her shadow (Bunksatwney Bill) and wait six more weeks. :evilgrin:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

14. 2-17-08

or whenever the first primary is.....

[B Calm]

16. Republicans at work today were pissed because Hillary went to Iraq.

I couldn't help myself and got into their conversation. I said, why in hell would that piss you off? Don't you know she has supported this stupid ass war from the beginning. I bet you also didn't know she was a member of the young republicans when she was in college. Not a peep from either of them...