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Hillary on Defensive Over Iraq Vote
…Antiwar anger has festered, and yesterday morning Mrs. Clinton rolled out a new response to those demanding contrition [for her 2002 vote supporting the war]: She said she was willing to lose support from voters rather than make an apology she did not believe in.
“If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from,” Mrs. Clinton told an audience in Dover, N.H., in a veiled reference to two rivals for the nomination, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina.
–source: NY Times
There are indeed. That seems a pained, even nose-thumbing response to those who are concerned about her vote. “If you don’t like it you can go to hell.” As the article says, she appears to be running a general election strategy, rather than a primary strategy. So votes from anti-war voters like me appear less important to her; and she seems to believe she’ll pick up enough votes from moderates who can forgive her for it that she’ll make up for the rest of us. I don’t know. But she’s really lost me.
