Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Hillary Booed

Sen. Hillary Clinton was booed again this morning at the Take Back America conference, sponsored by the lefty activist group Campaign for America's Future here in Washington.

"We're going to end the war in Iraq and finally bring home the troops," she said as a number of Code Pink protesters stood up in the audience. When she declared, "The American military has done its job," boos began to be heard around the room. As the boos increased, Sen. Clinton raised her voice. "The American military has succeeded," she said, to more boos. "It is the Iraqi government that has failed to make the tough decisions." Still more boos.

Obviously these Democrat supporters hate the military. They are allowed to rant and demonstrate and boo because young Americans have fought and died to preserve their freedom to do so.

How small of them. How small of Hillary Clinton to let the moment pass without expressing outrage.
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8 comments:

Tsofah said...

Well put, Chris!

This person wants to be president of the U.S. and can't even stand up for the soldiers? SIGH

6/20/2007 5:10 PM
Mojo_Risin said...

Didn't she stand up for the soldiers when she said the military has done its job? WHere was the insult?

6/20/2007 6:13 PM
Malott said...

Delta,

Thanks for your visit and your comments.

Mojo,

I am appreciative of her former support for the war effort and her current comments about the troops... But a patriot who seeks the Presidency should project a very hard line when facing an anti-military crowd... When that military is engaged in a war.

6/20/2007 6:26 PM
Mojo_Risin said...

Mal,
What did you want her to do? Shout down the few who booed her? Engage in a debate from the podium in the middle of her speech? Who does that? And anyway, she doesn't disagree that much with them. They both want to bring the troops home -- just in different ways.

Leaving the question of whether support for a war equals support for the troops aside... no, actually, that is the exact issue here.

Why does "Bring the troops home," automatically equate to "anti-military" in your mind? Just about everybody I talk to has great respect for the soldiers involved in this war. It's simply a matter of honor. They want to see these great sacrifices count for something, and not have these men and women's lives thrown around as a political tool at the whim of an incompetent president, as they seem to have been.

Everybody has pain about this war, and different reasons for it. But any way you look at it, this war is an open sore on our country, and we all have a right to grieve for it -- including the people who booed Clinton.

6/20/2007 7:49 PM
Tsofah said...

Mojo:

When a crowd boos when a person says "We are going to bring our troops home", that is unpatriotic. With every comment that was sarcastically delivered by Mrs. Clinton, she smirked. That is unpatriotic. She cannot differentiate between taking jabs at the present administration, and slurring our soldiers.

As a person who has lost a dear friend in this war; and who has joyfully welcomed a neighbor/injured soldier home - a take great offense at her stirring up the boos.

Maybe it IS true; maybe we women can read the body language of other women better than men can. But I don't care if it were a woman or a man who did this; or if it were a democrat or republican. It was wrong.

Period.

Delta
Daughter of vet of Philippines, Korea, and Vietnam (who was spat upon when he returned with a Purple Heart after having part of his foot blown off).

6/21/2007 5:27 PM
Mojo_Risin said...

Delta,
I'll leave the question of your gender's ephemeral grasp of body language aside.

Was she sincere, or wasn't she? Was she "sarcastically delivering" her message or did she speak what she thought? You can't have it both ways. You can't vilify her for her meaning and then vilify her because she didn't mean what she said.

And once again, it seems to me that there is room enough in the definition of "patriot" to include many divergent points of view. Have you even considered that, to these people, the most unpatriotic thing to do would be to let our men and women die over there in what they consider to be the wrong war? These are ultra-patriotic people who are willing to stand up even against their own party, and one of their top candidates, and speak their minds.

Mojo: grandson of a man who fought at Guadalcanal in WW2, and GGGGGGrandson of a man who fought in the Revolutionary War.

6/21/2007 6:31 PM
janice said...

Mojo, what's the RIGHT war? Isn't that what soldiers do, fight where the CiC sends them?

6/22/2007 8:08 AM
Mojo_Risin said...

Janice,
Exactly. It's not the soldiers' fault.

6/22/2007 11:00 AM

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