Iraq, Iraq, Iraq
Exit polls tomorrow night will undoubtedly show voters went into the booths worried about health care, home foreclosures, job security and other fallout from an impending recession.
Their concerns are understandable, but they may want to recall that a little over a year ago, in November 2006, their ballots gave control of Congress to Democrats with a mandate to stop the war in Iraq.
That did not happen and since then voters have been lulled by an Imperial President, using Gen. Petraeus as a human shield, into forgetting that American deaths there now total 3,945 at a cost to taxpayers exceeding $10 billion a month.
All the Republican candidates, except Ron Paul, are in favor of continuing to do that.
As for the Democrats, in 2002, I wrote to Sen. Hillary Clinton pleading with her not to give George W. Bush the power to invade Iraq and warning that, if she did, I would never vote for her for any office. Tomorrow I will keep that promise.
Cross-posted from my blog.
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So, you'd never vote for Hillary again? I say the same thing. But I've been thinking lately about that HIGHLY unlikely dream ticket. I figure even if it was Clinton/Obama I'd vote yes. I wouldn't think of it as a vote for her, rather I would be voting for Obama as VP, and that she was just in the way and an annoying nuisance……
How's that for some rationalization?
If the dream ticket did occur (either as Obama/Clinton or vice versa) the exit polls should ask, “Did you vote for him or for her or for both?”