Why hasn't Hillary been attacking George Bush with the same ferocity for the past 7 years?

[DesEtoiles]

[SunsetDreams]

1. McCain either...

[tblue]

2. That's the problem with Hillary. Who's side is she on?

[napoleon_in_rags]

3. Why haven't we???

I understand the outrage over the stupid Hillary ad and so forth, but this infighting has us pretty distracted too.

[dkf]

4. There's only infighting since he pretty much became irrelevant.

She's had 8 years to stand up to him.

[napoleon_in_rags]

5. I would say he's still pretty relevant, sadly.

I hate all the stupid stuff that's going down in Clinton's campaign and so forth, but I also remember the country wasn't like this when the Clintons were in charge. Whatever they were, it wasn't this.

[dkf]

9. Well Obama says he'll look at criminality for possible prosecution.

That's better than we got out of Bill's investigations (or lack thereof).

[napoleon_in_rags]

18. Yeah, Obama's really good. nt

[Jane Austin]

6. That's an excellent question.

And one I hope someone asks her at the debate this week.

[Quixote1818]

7. Best post of the day! nt

[cliffordu]

8. Yep!!! best post!!

[leftstreet]

10. K&R

[bhikkhu]

11. The senate voting records are the same, so that is no big issue

But with that said, Hillary has had all the attention and all the opportunity to have a real role. I think she just never "got" the real issues, and it was all about the dynastic or selfish accumulation of power and wealth.

In any case, on what is truly important: she is no Gore, she is no Dean, she is no Kucinich, she is no Edwards. And finally, she is certainly no Obama.

[leftstreet]

15. She squandered a politician's most precious resource - name recognition

She's had unprecedented name recognition all these years - and she's squandered it.

[bhikkhu]

19. Exactly, and Bill too.

Could have made a difference, instead made a killing.

[anonymous171]

12. I was wondering the exact same thing today.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

13. That's the $64000 question. nt

[lapfog_1]

28. You left a few zeros out...

It's more in the neighborhood of $6,400,000,000,000.

That's going to be about how much MORE debt we, as a nation, will have accumulated at the end of the Bush "error". $6.4 T.

And no doubt... 6400 soldiers killed in Iraq by the time it's over. And another 64,000 soldiers wounded or made mentally ill by it.

[JI7]

14. because of this

[guyanakoolaid]

16. Right-wing warmongers don't attack each other

[Cronus Protagonist]

17. Yes! Obama's been doing that for 7 years!!

No wait... :P

Actually, it costs money to say stuff in the media. Any of them could have said a lot but we would never know because the media hardly ever reports it.

[lligrd]

20. Exactly What Lost Her My Vote

She's been a bit too cozy with this administration.

[Divine Discontent]

21. NOW, there's a great thread title!!!!!!!!!!!!!

one of the best of the year!

SERIOUSLY - this needs 100 recs by noon!


She sounds so vicious about Obama, and he's not even president yet. Where was this harsh, very very harsh tone about the warmongering liar pResident we have now? About the torture? About the outing of Plame? Shrub saying no to Kyoto? About the people being left to die after Katrina? About the Ohio election disaster? All things orchestrated by dumbass B*sh! She may have voiced concern for some of these issues - but nothing in that rancid tone she's been using about Obama...

Hillary you're a shrill woman who needs to go far, far away.

[PerfectSage]

22. Let me triangulate the answer...

[grantcart]

24. lol

[Raine]

23. Bar & GHBush said that Bill was like another son

so Hillary wouldn't want to be too rough on her "brother-in-law". x(

[CreekDog]

25. Cuz that would be elitist

it would make her like Gore and Kerry. :eyes:

[Skittles]

26. this bothers me too

yes INDEED

[lapfog_1]

27. Well, and this is probably a bit unfair, but up until she decided

to run for President, I think she sort of agreed with George W. Bush.

[SeattleGirl]

29. Good question.

Since I doubt I'll have an opportunity to see her in person, I hope someone asks that question of her.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. Because Dubya hates them San Franceesca latte-suckin' elitist pro-choicin' gun-grabbin' libruls, too

She's not Elmer Fudd, she's Yosemite Fuckin' Sam.

[AtomicKitten]

31. Because they're buddies.

[oasis]

32. "Bush Knew". A few months after 9/11, freshman senator Clinton

stood on the floor of the senate with a copy of the NY Post bearing that headline.

She then asked the question "Bush knew what?". Her question was met with a chorus of chirping crickets on both sides of the aisle.

After that showing of no support by her senior colleagues, I never took her to task for not passionately going after Bush.

[kevinmc]

33. Bush is her friend ..... and she is his base. n/t

[bowens43]

34. Because they're two ends of the same worm......

[DesEtoiles]

35. .

[meow mix]

36. she's a traitor and never stood with democrats much.

thats clear now..

[truebrit71]

37. Because she has the same paymaster...

...

[uponit7771]

38. K&R

[madrchsod]

39. .somewhere in this triangulation is the truth

[windoe]

40. Attacking Bush is political suicide-

there are obvious forces preventing any real investigations into criminal activity. Are the Bushes that powerful that they can make themselves into teflon? Kucinich was marginalized because he wanted to impeach, not because he didn't have the American people behind him, but because the powers that be would not allow this.

[nichomachus]

41. Had she attacked Bush

with the ferocity she has attacked Obama and the Democratic party, she would have been the nominee right after Super Tuesday. The primary would have been over. And every Dem and most indies would have been working on her campaign day and night.

[zulchzulu]

42. Repiglicans don't usually attack their own

Why would Hillary trash Republicans? She is one.

[Citizen Kang]

43. Because the Clinton's are just another wing of the Bush Crime Family

Bill did nothing while the Bushes stole their way into office in 2000. The Clinton's underminded Kerry's campaign in 2004. Hillary and Bill both supported the Iraq war, until it was in their interests to be against the war.

Google Mena, Cocaine, Bush and Clinton and do some research.

[hfojvt]

44. she has been, sort of

No US Senator gets the same national attention as a Presidential candidate. The media tends to give more attention to people who bash Democrats, which is why Lieberman sold his soul for more TV exposure. Even now they probably pick out the Obama-bashing parts and talk about them rather than the Bush-bashing parts of any of her speeches.

[book_worm]

45. because the Clinton's and Bush's have been cozy for several years now.

[Ichingcarpenter]

46. "I wish I could get them(The Bush Family) to adopt Hillary.".... Bill Clinton quote

Former President Bill Clinton discussed his relationship with President Bush's father last night on CBS LATE SHOW.

Clinton: "I think we're good friends. I like him very much. I've always liked him. When he was vice president, I was still a governor. We worked together on a number of things. He hosted the governors, in 1983...at Kennebunkport."

When they made an announcement about raising funds for Tsunami relief in Houston former First Lady Barbara Bush "announced us. And she said she has started to call me son. I told the Republicans there, I said don't worry, every family has one, you know, the black sheep. I told them, this just shows you the lengths the Bushes would go to get another president in the family. I wish I could get them to adopt Hillary."

[PoliticalAmazon]

47. She was too busy voting for his neocon agenda. n/t

[AspenRose]

48. That's a damn good question.

Really.

[formercia]

49. Hillary has been assimilated

All the makeup in the world can't hide that.

The Clintons are part of the BFEE hive.

[mmonk]

50. Because she didn't want to appear weak on defense.

[Beaverhausen]

51. Oh yeah- just like Obama has been fighting Bush since he got into the senate

oh wait...

[Catherine Vincent]

52. Because he's not running for President.

Duh!

[wiggs]

53. Exactly. Important question to be applied to any number of people. nt