Thursday, April 3, 2008

Hillary in the Senate - Not so effective against Iraq war

I haven't seen this anywhere else in the blogosphere (which doesn't mean that much, but I am a tad surprised), so I thot I would post a link to it. The LA Times today points out that although Hillary has been a vocal opponent of the war, she hasn't actually done that much about it in the Senate:

"[S]ince Democrats took control of Congress, Clinton has done relatively little to advance legislation to force the Bush administration to withdraw from Iraq, according to congressional records and lawmakers and staff members who have worked on the issue.

Instead, Clinton largely remained on the sidelines of the congressional debate, her legislation ignored as the Senate focused on measures developed by lawmakers who were more central to the legislative drive to end the war"
This is her problem: she's running on her record, but once people start to examine that record, it's not that impressive.

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