Hillary contradicted herself on nukes in order to smear Obama

Last week, immediately after Barack Obama ruled out using nuclear weapons in the Middle East, Hillary's campaign slammed the freshman Illinois Senator for being irresponsible:

"Presidents should be very careful at all times in discussing the useor nonuse of nuclear weapons," Clinton said. "Presidents since the ColdWar have used nuclear deterrence to keep the peace. And I don't believethat any president should make any blanket statements with respect tothe use or nonuse of nuclear weapons."

But back in April of 2006, Hillary said she would take nukes off the table:

`I have said publicly nooption should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclearweapons off the table,'' Clinton said.  ``This administration hasbeen very willing to talk about using nuclear weapons in a way wehaven't seen since the dawn of a nuclear age. I think that's a terriblemistake.''

Remember though, Hillary is thinking big -- in other words, preparing for the general election.  That is why today, more so than last year, she intends to flex her muscles on national defense.

The problem is when you engage in this kind of political calculation -- appealing to different voters at different times -- later on your opponents can come back and easily discover contradicting statements that you made.  Voters like bold and decisive leaders that have a spine, not politicians that tell one group of people that their favorite color is green, and then the next day inform an entirely different group of voters that it's red, just to make everybody happy in the short-run.

If Hillary stuck to her core progressive principles, and put boldness ahead of political calculation, more voters would respect her.

Comments

[Jon]

Yet another piece of evidence to the pile. She'll say anything to get elected.