Will voters accept Hillary Clinton’s nonapology?
Christian Science Monitor
by Daniel Schorr
02/23/07
Welcome to the politics of apologia — the 2007 version. In the 2004 election, Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts had to endure charges that he was flip-flopping on funding for the Iraq war. In 1964, only two senators — Wayne Morse (D) of Oregon and Ernest Gruening (D) of Alaska — voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing President Johnson to expand the Vietnam War. I don’t recall any of the others offering apologies. So now, Sen. Hillary Clinton is being warned by some of her supporters that she may endanger her front-runner status if she refuses to make some outright apology for having voted along with 76 other senators in 2002 to empower the president to use force in Iraq. A simple ‘I was conned and I’m sorry it happened’ might have done it. But the evolution of her position is like a study in self-torture...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0223/p09s02-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Schorr
by Daniel Schorr
02/23/07
Welcome to the politics of apologia — the 2007 version. In the 2004 election, Sen. John Kerry (D) of Massachusetts had to endure charges that he was flip-flopping on funding for the Iraq war. In 1964, only two senators — Wayne Morse (D) of Oregon and Ernest Gruening (D) of Alaska — voted against the Tonkin Gulf Resolution authorizing President Johnson to expand the Vietnam War. I don’t recall any of the others offering apologies. So now, Sen. Hillary Clinton is being warned by some of her supporters that she may endanger her front-runner status if she refuses to make some outright apology for having voted along with 76 other senators in 2002 to empower the president to use force in Iraq. A simple ‘I was conned and I’m sorry it happened’ might have done it. But the evolution of her position is like a study in self-torture...
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0223/p09s02-cods.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Daniel+Schorr
rudkla - 26. Feb, 15:02
