Hillary Clinton was the only presidential candidate to show up on Wednesday for the National Association of Counties meeting held in Richmond. The Richmond Times report on the event can be found here. Below is a picture from the event, showing Clinton with Chesapeake Delegate Lionell Spruill, who has already endorsed her, and Portsmouth Clerk of Court Cynthia Morrison. I understand that Morrison has also decided to support Clinton.
Delegate Spruill, if you recall, go on board with John Kerry early and managed to get him to come here for a fundraiser last fall. Who knows? Maybe Spruill can get Hillary to Chesapeake for an event 😉
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VIVIAN J. PAIGE | All Politics is Local 
Senator Clinton looks a lot fresher in the picture than she did later that same night, at 4:11am, when she took the Senate floor to speak out for the Reid/Levin amendment to the 2008 Defense Authorization Act.
I also give her credit for voting for the Webb Amendment. But, I do not forget her vote to authorize the invasion and occupation of Iraq in the first place. With her access to information she must have know the flaws on WMD’s, etc. and yet she still allied herself with the Bush/Cheney “foreign intervention policy”, resulting in 3,621 U.S. fatalities to date, over 27,000 wounded to date, etc. I do not think her actions show her to be “Presidential” and we do have better choices available to be our Democratic Party standard bearer in 2008.
I worry sometimes that the purity (for lack of a better word) demanded by certain elements of the democratic party might ultimately turn off a large segment of the population, particularly independent voters. It should be noted that American public opinion on the war has reversed itself; prior to the war, the majority of the American public believed that Iraq was actively pursuing WMD and supported an active military intervention against that nation as a consequence. It may be foolish and detrimental to condemn any potential candidate who agreeed with that position because, by association, you’re condemning the majority of Americans who initially supported the war based on the information they had available to them at the time. People don’t react well when you treat them like they’re stupid.
Please re-read the post. It certainly does not demand, nor do I expect, “purity” on the part of candidates and I know of no time during the run up to the invasion of Iraq that the “People” you write about were ever informed with anything but repeated lies.
Your post equates the knowledge of the “People” in general with what Senator Clinton should or did know about WMD’s prior to her voting, on behalf of the “People” who elected her, to make fully informed decision (including and especially lots of “classified information” they did not know).
Your anonymous post equates Senator Clinton with being “stupid” and, while IMO she does not deserve to be our party’s nominee for President, she is certainly not “stupid” nor are the “People” of this great Nation.
who ever the next president is , that person will have to play the same game with the war on terror, exmaple cold war, dem. or rep. president had to fight tha war at all parts of the world fight to win.
C´mon. People in Brazil(And all over the world) laughed when they heard about the so called WMDs. Hillary is not an idiot, but if she keeps using the “lack of intelligence” line for justifying her vote she will looks like one.