Hillary Exposed as War Hawk as She Avoids Tough Questions

As Clinton leads among Democrats who favor an immediate withdrawal from Iraq, it is to her obvious advantage that voters don’t find out she’s a war hawk – or else the “inevitability” of her nomination could be in doubt. But while Hillary avoids unscripted questions, one of her top supporters admitted that the Senator does not oppose the War in Iraq.

After I was one of five people at the Yearly Kos Convention in August to ask Hillary Clinton a question, Tim Redmond of the Bay Guardian followed up with a basic observation: why was my question news? “Why did it take a 29-year-old blogger from San Francisco,” he asked, “to do what the high-paid, high-profile crackerjacks who are covering the presidential race for the mainstream media ought to be doing every day, as a matter of course?”

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