The Virginian-Pilot reprinted this article in today’s paper. Clinton has been taking some heat for her Iraq vote. Now, it seems, she is unwilling to back away from it:
Yet antiwar anger has festered, and yesterday morning Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.
“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience in Dover, N.H., in a veiled reference to two rivals for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
Will such a stand hurt Clinton’s chances? I think so and she has lost at least one person who was willing to give her a chance. It is just one more reason to dislike and distrust her. I have to give her props for not caving in and issuing an apology just for the sake of trying to placate the anti-war folks, but the quote demonstrates, at least to me, the ice in her veins that so many people say she has. It has an air of arrogance about it, reminding me of that old school yard chant: “those who love me may come to pass; all the others can kiss my …,” well, you get the picture.
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MB – The mere fact of an accusation does not equate to proof. Just because we presume guilt and believe a man to be guilty does not mean he is guilty. Instead, what we have is an error in logic.
Consider the old joke based upon a false presumption of guilt. It goes like this.
“MB, are you still beating your wife?”
To defend against such an accusation requires more explanation and effort than making an accusation. In court, that is why we require the accuser to furnish proof. Unfortunately, in the court of public opinion, except what good citizens insist upon, no such discipline is required.
My regards to your wife. I hope her injuries heal without scarring. 🙂