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Michael Moore: The War puts drive into Dems, explains Iowa results
By cement mixer | January 4, 2008
Michael Moore says that “There was no doubt about it. The message from Iowa tonight was simple, but deafening: If you’re a candidate for President, and you voted for the war, you lose. And if you voted and voted and voted for the war — and never once showed any remorse — you really lose.”
In an email, Moore further claimed that –
…if you had something to do with keeping us in this war for four-plus years, you are not allowed to be the next president of the United States.
Over 70% of Iowan Democrats voted for candidates who either never voted for the invasion of Iraq (Obama, Richardson, Kucinich) or who have since admitted their mistake (Edwards, Biden, Dodd). I can’t tell you how bad I feel for Senator Clinton tonight. I don’t believe she was ever really for this war. But she did — and continued to do — what she thought was the politically expedient thing to eventually get elected. And she was wrong. And tonight she must go to sleep wondering what would have happened if she had voted her conscience instead of her calculator.
As the only top candidate who was anti-war before the war began, Barack Obama became the vessel through which the people…were able to say loud and clear: “Bring ‘Em Home!” Most pundits won’t read the election this way because, well, most pundits merrily led us down the path to war. For them to call this vote tonight a repudiation of the war — and of Senator Clinton’s four years’ worth of votes for it — might require the pundit class to remind their viewers and readers that they share some culpability in starting this war. And, like Hillary, damn few of them have offered us an apology.
Who can be anti-War more? That is essentially the message that Michael Moore says is (and wants to be) a winner among voting Democrats.
Its ironic (and hypocritical) that in his email Michael Moore advocates for the ultimate in politically expedient arguments while admonishing Hillary Clinton for being politically expendient in her Iraq War votes in the Senate. Can the pot really call the kettle black?
Michael Moore chastizes Hillary Clinton for being a two-stepper, but then committs the same crime himself. But what more can we expect from a man who attacks companies like Haliburton in the media, while failing to disclose that, at the time of his attacks, he owned more than 2,000 shares of Haliburton stock.
Topics: Michael Moore, Presidential Primary, Iowa Caucus |