Hillary Clinton on Jeremiah Wright:
“I think given all we have heard and seen, he would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said in a news conference in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
Well, of course he wouldn’t.
Wherever Hillary Clinton goes, whoever she meets, whatever she says or does, there is one thought always foremost in her mind: How will this play in Peoria?
If she picks her friends based on whether they can help her politically, don’t you suppose she would pick her pastor the same way?
Hey, that’s why she voted to authorize the War in Iraq. Who cared whether Saddam really had the WMDs? The war looked quick and easy, and it was popular as hell at the time, so there was no need to actually look at the National Intelligence Estimate. Gallup had all the necessary intelligence for Clinton’s decision.
When polls showed Americans turning against the war, so did she. If she wins the Democratic nomination, you can rest assured that she will continue to oppose the war for as long as the political winds are blowing that way — at least, until Election Day.
Spink Nogales | 26-Mar-08 at 9:56 pm | Permalink
Dick Cheney doesn’t like polls either…
from ABCNews.com
Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney offered a positive assessment of the current situation and called last year’s troop surge a “major success.”
When asked how that assessment comports with recent polls that show about two-thirds of Americans say the fight in Iraq is not worth it, Cheney replied, “So?”
“You don’t care what the American people think?” Raddatz asked the vice president.
“You can’t be blown off course by polls,” said Cheney, who is currently on a tour of the Middle East.