Letters to the Editor
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Tom Tommorrow jumps on the Hillary-bashing train
I remember Al Gore getting this same treatment from the left-wing and main-stream media in 2000.
A vote for Gore is the same as Bush! So vote Nadar!
Now we're eating crow with how we treated Gore...how we ASSumed we knew so much about him and his character.
This cartoon is a perfect summary of where lefties sit right now. They have joined the hype and because it suits their misperceptions about her, and they will happily pile on.
It doesn't help that many in the press corps seem to go out of their way to mislead news consumers about Clinton's vote and what she's been saying about it.
http://mediamatters.org/columns/200703050007
Meanwhile, she co-sponsors legislation with Jim Webb that states, that prohibits the use of funds for military operations against Iran without explicit Congressional authorization.
http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=284618
And still Obama gets a pass on saber-rattling and hypocrisy when he himself co-sponsored the following bill in April, 2007: The "Iran Counter-Proliferation Act of 2007,"
It states that:
"The Secretary of State should designate the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a Foreign Terrorist Organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) and the Secretary of the Treasury should place the Iranian Revolutionary Guards on the list of Specially Designated Global Terrorists under Executive Order 13224 (66 Fed. Reg. 186; relating to blocking property and prohibiting transactions with persons who commit, threaten to commit, or support terrorism)."
How is this different than the Kyl-Leiberman resolution that Obama didn't show up to vote for?
Let's be consistent here, Tom. And please don't perpetuate willful ignorance on issues.