@ LanierThrill73

Starting to wonder if she wants to wound Obama to the point that McCain will win so she can go for it again in 2012.

Wonder no more! Hillary endorsed John McCain over Obama on Monday, March 3rd:

"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know that Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he would bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002." - Hillary Clinton 03/03/08

And there's video to prove it. It actually sounds worse than it reads, unfortunately.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou4JnWQsxKw

Apparently Hillary has decided that if she can't beat Obama, she wants McCain to win the general election. You'd think she'd have some thought for the American soldiers that will be kept in Iraq by McCain - soldiers that she shares responsibility for sending to Iraq in the first place, with her "yes" vote on the Iraq authorization bill. But I guess she's decided that our soldiers must make the ultimate sacrifice again for her political career.

She's looking more and more like Joe Lieberman in a pantsuit every day. Endorsing a Republican over a Democrat is absolutely unforgivable in a Democratic candidate, as far as I'm concerned, and it betrays a near-sociopathic level of egomania. If by some change she gets the nomination, not only will I vote for some worthy Democrat as a write-in vote, but I - and many other Democrats I know - will disenroll from the party and no longer consider ourselves Democrats.

I've been a Democrat all my life, but this is simply unacceptable.

Cue Hillary supporters calling me a traitor and/or telling me to suck it up and vote for Hillary because McCain would be worse. But watch the video: Hillary doesn't agree with you!

A joint ticket would be an unmitigated disaster for the Democrats. Hillary's presence on the ticket will charge up the Republican base, and is the one thing that will restore the religious right to full identification with the Republican Party.

Not only would it be a huge boost to John McCain's Presidential chances, but it would help Republican candidates all the way down the line. Hillary's "negative coat-tails" effect would be devastating.

And Obama would permanently damage his own image and future political career by joining that ticket. After Hillary endorsed John McCain over Obama on Monday (see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ou4JnWQsxKw ), how Hillary and Obama possibly share the same ticket?

Such a display of cynicism is the one thing that could lose Obama the support of the young and idealistic voters that he has been able to bring into the process.

It seems that the Democrats have once again managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. And now we're all well and truly screwed.

You give Hillary too much credit by listing her Iraq authorization vote as the reason that some Obama supporters won't vote for her.

She has an established pattern of votes where she has sided with the Republicans, with George W. Bush, against her own party...and against the obvious interests of the working/middle class that she now claims to be ready to "fight" for.

(Parenthetically, I think she means she'll "fight" for the middle/working class the way that one dog will fight another one for a nice juicy steak. It's better not to think about what happens to the steak in the ensuing battle.)

The PATRIOT Act. Anyone with half a brain could see that it was a criminal infringement on the basic civil liberties of Americans, a violation of our Constitutional rights.

Hillary voted for it.

The bankruptcy bill. Written by the credit industry, it essentially eliminated the right of bankruptcy for the poor and middle-class (but not the rich, never the rich). Most bankruptcies happen because a family provider suffers an unexpected medical crisis; now, such families will never be able to get back on their feet. They'll be paying their creditors forever. How much did the credit industry donate to Hillary's campaigns?

Needless to say, Hillary voted for it.

The Iran "terrorist" bill. There was little argument at the time that if Bush and Cheney decided to attack Iran, this bill would be the lion's share of their claimed justification. It was the Iran authorization bill all over again, embodying the same deadly mistake.

And Hillary voted for it.

Here's the thing. Hillary wants us to believe that she was tricked about Iraq by George W. Bush. She fell for his lies, and those of Joe Lieberman, Colin Powell, and all the other talking heads.

I don't believe her. She's NOT a stupid woman, although admitting that she didn't read the NIE on Iraq before voting to authorize attack does seem incomprehensible. No, I think she made that vote for one reason only: for the same reason she sponsored that idiotic flag-burning bill, because she believed that it would enhance her chance to take the Presidency in 2008. She didn't read the NIE because it didn't have anything to do with winning the Presidency...or so she thought.

John Edwards voted for the Iraq authorization bill. Was it stupidity? Probably not. I believe he made that vote for the same reason Hillary did. But at least HE had the integrity to admit his mistake.

She won't. And she's made it clear, over and over, that she'd vote that way again - AND HAS!