Posted by
Steve on Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:05:36 PM
Politicians like to tell the crowd what they want to hear. It makes for greater applause and approval from the group you talk to. Mrs. Clinton is particularly adept at doing this. Unfortunately for her, there is the internet and the new media. What she told one group at one time will come back to haunt her in another time. All politicians do it to some extent, just not to the extent that Mrs. Clinton does it.
Take the part of the war on Terror that is in Iraq, she has said that if President Bush will not bring the troops home, she will. That sounds like a definite statement that the troops will come home soon after she becomes President. She is now saying that the troops could be in Iraq until 2013. That means she is saying now that there will be a troop presence in Iraq until at least the end of her first term. That is not what her supporters from Moveon.org want to hear. They were fine with the statement that she would bring the troops home, they do not like this new statement.
Mrs. Clinton has said that she supports the troops. She praised General Petraeus when he was selected as the general to lead the Army in Iraq. After Moveon.org put that ad in the paper to slander General Petraeus, she did not denounce it right away. She also voted against a sense of the Senate resolution condemning the ad as slanderous. Now she says that she supports the troops again. This woman does not know where she stands from one moment to the next. Her words may say she supports the troops, her actions definitely show that she holds them in contempt.
At the Democrat debate last night, Tim Russert got the best of her with a question. The question was if there was a bomb planted somewhere in the United States and we had the #3 man in al Qaeda in custody, would you authorize torture? She tried to dance around the question and not answer it. Come to find out that her husband former President Bill Clinton had posed and answered the question to Tim Russert a few months ago. He had said he would authorize torture. She said she would have to talk to him when she got home. This woman is something else. She does not know where she stands and does not care for American lives. In this scenario, thousands if not millions of Americans are going to die if we do not get the information. We have a source to get the information and a short time to get it. Torture works to get people to do things and say things. Just ask former prisoners like John McCain. He cracked under torture conditions. Everyone will crack given enough torture of the right type. Her answer was basically to let millions of Americans die to make her feel good.
She was asked if her medical plan covered illegal aliens in the debate. She answered that it would not cover those in the country illegally. She is running ads on Spanish language stations that are saying that her plan would cover everyone including those in the country illegally. Which is it Mrs. Clinton, are illegal aliens covered or not? Just tell us the truth and let us decide if we trust you after you tell us the truth.
What I expect from a politician is that he/she tell the truth. I expect that he/she will do what they say they will do. I do not expect them to be perfect. I do not expect them to “bring home the bacon”. I expect them to handle the money raised by taxes wisely. They need to remember that tax money is not the property of the federal government. It is money taken from citizens in the United States that have earned it. The citizens deserve to keep as much of that money as possible. The politician should also try to be a wise steward of the Constitution. Any federal program that is not authorized by the Constitution should not be part of any federal budget. That would pare down the budget and save many tax dollars. The economy would boom and everyone would be happy except for the politicians.