Somewhere, on another planet, an endorsement from Michael Moore would make a difference in a presidential campaign. Fortunately, we don't live on that planet, but watching Moore whine about Hillary Clinton and extoll the virtues of John Edwards makes Hillary look so much more electable, even after her third place finish in Iowa.
And yet, I am sad to say, nothing has disappointed me more than the disastrous, premeditated vote by Senator Hillary Clinton to send us to war in Iraq. I'm not only talking about her first vote that gave Mr. Bush his "authorization" to invade -- I'm talking about every single OTHER vote she then cast for the next four years, backing and funding Bush's illegal war, and doing so with verve. She never met a request from the White House for war authorization that she didn't like. Unlike the Kerrys and the Bidens who initially voted for authorization but later came to realize the folly of their decision, Mrs. Clinton continued to cast numerous votes for the war until last March -- four long years of pro-war votes, even after 70% of the American public had turned against the war. She has steadfastly refused to say that she was wrong about any of this, and she will not apologize for her culpability in America's worst-ever foreign policy disaster. All she can bring herself to say is that she was "misled" by "faulty intelligence."
Actually, supporting the war effort makes Hillary look more responsible, and that's exactly why she did it. Not that she actually supports the mission. But she knows that we can't leave an unstable Iraq and that the mission is worth the effort.
I have not even touched on her other numerous -- and horrendous -- votes in the Senate, especially those that have made the middle class suffer even more (she voted for Bush's first bankruptcy bill, and she is now the leading recipient of payoff money -- I mean campaign contributions -- from the health care industry). I know a lot of you want to see her elected, and there is a very good chance that will happen.
"A good chance?" With half the voting population saying they would never vote for her? Unless there's a 3d party candidate--and there most likely will be one--Hillary is very unlikely to be president. Why? Because her negatives are too high.
If Moore's temper tantrum about Hillary is bad, his praise for John Edwards (or, as Michael Medved calls him, "Con" Edwards) is worse.
It's hard to get past the hair, isn't it? But once you do -- and recently I have chosen to try -- you find a man who is out to take on the wealthy and powerful who have made life so miserable for so many. A candidate who says things like this: "I absolutely believe to my soul that this corporate greed and corporate power has an ironclad hold on our democracy." Whoa. We haven't heard anyone talk like that in a while, at least not anyone who is near the top of the polls. I suspect this is why Edwards is doing so well in Iowa, even though he has nowhere near the stash of cash the other two have. He won't take the big checks from the corporate PACs, and he is alone among the top three candidates in agreeing to limit his spending and be publicly funded. He has said, point-blank, that he's going after the drug companies and the oil companies and anyone else who is messing with the American worker. The media clearly find him to be a threat, probably because he will go after their monopolistic power, too. This is Roosevelt/Truman kind of talk.
Maybe Moore hasn't spent enough time around trial lawyers to know that they are skilled actors able to play Everyman at a moment's notice. But Edwards isn't Everyman.He's a shyster and a con artist who would wreck our economy and put us farther down the socialistic path that even Europe is beginning to turn from. If the Europeans are recognizing the folly of nationalizing everything, why should we descend into Hell after this snake oil salesman?
If you want to see why Hillary Clinton looks positively centrist, read the rest of Moore's screed. The fact that, like so many moonbats, his first choice for president is Dennis Kucinich says it all.
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