Fair comment, but I doubt your intelligence services get much 'actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets'. it might be acceptable to act on less firm evidence in a war zone but you wouldn't want to accidentally kill women and children in a friendly country.

Obama said what sounds like spin to me, suggesting that his rivals had 'actionable intelligence' and didn't act on it, while claiming that he would. Whatever evidence there was was probably rather sketchy and the only reason the Bush administration mentioned it was to perpetuate the feeling of fear and hate in the country which keeps them in power.

Good luck with choosing your next president, ask them all hard questions at every opportunity about both foreign and domestic policy. I'm looking forward to the next youtube debate.

I will not be voting for her. Or for Obama, for that matter. I just don't see that they have the leadership qualities I'd expect in a president. I'll vote third-party before either of them.

So far, from what I've seen, I like Bill Richardson. He's not perfect, and he definitely won't be nominated, but maybe he can be on the short-list for VP. He has to be better than Cheney in that role.

And he's Hispanic! All right, all right. A woman president, sure. A black president? Not a problem. But I guess we're just not ready for a Hispanic president.

We're going to put in a president who is just as Republican as Joe Lieberman? Just to win over the Republicans who are on the fence about towing the Bush line. Prediction: Third party liberal candidates are going to steal votes from Democrats allowing Republicans to once again get an election by default. Unless *fingers crossed* the Christian Right, fed up with the fact that R are not gay-bashing enough, split off like they've been threatening. Wow, all these multiple parties could make this country a REAL republic instead of a two-party nightmare.

that's pretty rich. Israel is the only country that has an official national campaign of assassination..the u.s has funded and back more militia groups than any other government in history, the u.s in terms of g.d.p spends more on military funding at the expense of education/health/social services than any other country, which can only be interpreted as to the detriment of its citizens. Iran as always had the policy of 'we don't see the harm in talking.' and no other country, with the exception of c.c.c.p, or u.s.s.r, if you will, has even 4% of the nuclear technology and weaponry that the u.s does....no one has ever used nuclear weaponry, apart from the u.s.....twice.....and in their search for w.m.d were the only country to use chemical weaponry.

She should fire her facts checker...no doubt Iran has its own agenda, but in terms of relative morality, that's the pot calling the kettle black.

So, we have Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. Both of whom support "pre-emptive war" (read: "aggression" [read: the "Supreme Crime" condemned at Nuremburg]), both of whom are opposed to Universal Health Care, and both of whom have been in the Senate for less than a decade. Then you have Hillary's servitude to corporate interests and Barack being bought out by big energy and agribusiness.

Yeah, what left-leaning liberals the democratic front-runners are. Gee whiz.

wait, I am confused.....Clinton writes that, "The Bush administration refuses to talk to Iran about its nuclear program, preferring to ignore bad behavior rather than challenge it." I thought the Bush admin was trying to pull for UN sanctions against Iran....I know I read that somewhere recently....hmmmm I've said it before, Aaaaaand I'll say it again, the Democrats really do lose their effing minds whenever election time rolls around......

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Actualy, that was one of Hitlers favorite lines too....
We won't have to worry though, once the HILDEBEAST is in charge we won't get anything but straight propaganda on how great things are
Of coarse our taxes will double, and anyone proffesing the smallest amount of dissent will imediatly commit suicide, but sometimes you just need to accept greatness

when it comes to hillary I dont care about her stance on Iraq or Iran... only country that comes to mind is China. Bill Clinton betrayed our country to favor his chinese masters and Hillary Clinton is following the same path.
Hell over the years last decade or so the Clinton's "collected" a nice amount of change from the chinese foriegn intelligence thingy..
And the fact that one of her advisers stole documents from the library of congress and shredded them and attempted to replace those documents with phonys to keep the 911 commision from getting them.
Hillary is just a neo-conservative in liberal clothings....

Then a) you know a bunch of creepily precocious, politically aware five year olds and b) every other Democratic candidate for President (with the exception of Kucinich) was also incompetent or not paying attention. Which is a fine argument to make, but why aren't they all being tarred with the same brush?

And if its about her not renouncing her vote (which others did ONLY when it became poll-safe to do so, btw), how about this exchange:

I'd rather see a little equal-opportunity Dem bashing, if we're going to get into it.

So I'm not the only one that thinks FTR is the worst possible excuse for a "columnist"? That he is a profane juvenile who has never posted a column on this site that has something positive to say? That his sole purpose in having this column is to tear down other people, positions, and ideas?

You cannot be an agent for positive change if your sole MO is in the destruction of everything around you.

Frankly, I'm not concerned about Clinton's electability. I'm concerned about whether or not she *should* be elected. I think not, personally.

FTR is not a columnist. Actually, this is the ranting of an intolerant, abusive, mentally deficient, psudo-intellectual, typical, blogger coward,nihilist. Instead of conforming society to his perveted views he needs to seek serious psycological help to figure out who molested him.

I honestly would not be surprised if she ended up being removed from office or assassinated if she was elected.