Machilary
I believe that Senator Obama may very well become the next President of the United States. I believe that because I also believe that Americans are tired of being in Iraq and as the New York Times rightly points out today, Obama has been against the war from the beginning and is the only candidate who could actually win, who can make that claim.
We Americans are tired of hearing the word Iraq, even more than we were tired of hearing about Vietnam 35 years ago. There are very few supporters of Bush's policies because there are no good reasons to be in this war. The presence of WMDs in Iraq were a lie (and I suspect a viciously premeditated one), there is no "domino theory" strategy that's workable in the midEast, we have not brought the Iraqi people peace, we have destabilized the region, we have had over 3,000 American soldiers killed, God knows how many wounded and I would imagine, 50 times that number of Iraqis. Killing Sadam Hussein did nothing for world or Iraqi peace.
Senator Obama has clean hands. Senator Clinton does not. And that makes all of the difference. Hilary Clinton has been asked repeatedly at rallies to apologize for her war vote and she refuses to do so. Senator Edwards and Senator Dodd cleverly do express regrets, but Hilary does not--she is unrepentant and unlike Lady Macbeth, she is not air-cleaning her bloodstained hands in public. Every American politician who supported the war is tainted with that decision and their political prospects must live or die as a consequence.
And we Americans do not like this war. We feel that it's pointless; and other than those Americans who knee-jerkingly support every action done by the President, we believe that it is wasteful of lives and resources and that our presence in that situation does not further the goals of our country.
Senator Obama is aligned with that position and as much as she pirouttes around the pivot point of truth, Senator Clinton is not.
She cannot win.
Posted on February 26, 2007
