Sunday, January 28, 2007

Hillary Clinton’s Mission Unaccomplished: FRANK RICH - Clinton and Iraq

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The New York Times
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Hillary Clinton’s Mission Unaccomplished

By FRANK RICH
Published: January 28, 2007

Mrs. Clinton has always been a follower of public opinion on the war, not a leader.


HILLARY CLINTON has an answer to those who suspect that her “I’m in to win” Webcast last weekend was forced by Barack Obama’s Webcast of just four days earlier. “I wanted to do it before the president’s State of the Union,” she explained to Brian Williams on NBC, “because I wanted to draw the contrast between what we’ve seen over the last six years, and the kind of leadership and experience that I would bring to the office.”

She couldn’t have set the bar any lower. President Bush’s speech was less compelling than the Monty Python sketch playing out behind it: the unacknowledged race between Nancy Pelosi and Dick Cheney to be the first to stand up for each bipartisan ovation. (Winner: Pelosi.)

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