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In reply to the discussion: Hillary became "unlikable" when she became successful in her own right. It's all about sexism. [View all]delisen
(6,042 posts)I think it is time to start treating Democratic candidates equally-females equal to males. The double standard has brought us to this moment in the history of the republic and we need to overcome now.
2006:
A few months later, addressing a meeting of the Democratic National Committee, Clinton said, "If I had been president in October of 2002, I would not have started this war.... If we in Congress don't end this war before January 2009, as president, I will."
Clinton's language in "Hard Choices" is nearly identical to the language another 2008 Democratic primary rival, then-Sen. John Edwards (N.C.), used when he disavowed his vote to authorize military action in Iraq. Edwards began an op-ed about Iraq published in The Washington Post in 2005 with the sentence, "I was wrong."
Clinton has made numerous statements.
In "Hard Choices," Clinton, a former secretary of state and former U.S. senator who is exploring a 2016 presidential campaign, writes: "[M]any Senators came to wish they had voted against the resolution. I was one of them. As the war dragged on, with every letter I sent to a family in New York who had lost a son or daughter, a father or mother, my mistake become (sic) more painful."
Clinton continues, "I thought I had acted in good faith and made the best decision I could with the information I had. And I wasn't alone in getting it wrong. But I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2014/06/05/hillary-clinton-on-iraq-vote-i-still-got-it-wrong-plain-and-simple/?utm_term=.a4c9641b83bb