Reply #15: There is much anger based on an impression [View All]

[AtomicKitten]

cultivated by sound bytes, but her speeches make her position more clear, and that in conjunction with a liberal voting record in the 90+% range dispel much of the notion that she is a "neocon," at least for me. Her support of Israel is no different than 99.9% of all other Dems, and no offense, but I believe your impression of her "strident" support is colored by your prejudice against her.

What she is doing is compensating for being a woman in a pasty-faced white man's world in politics by hedging her bets and injecting testosterone in her aura. That is often misconstrued as hawkish.

Regardless, after communing on DU for a year now, I am of the opinion that other than trying to insert an air of fairness regarding HRC, I don't want to listen to the kvetching and hand-wringing regarding her possible candidacy. It distresses me more than you know to hear the incessant drumbeat against a possible contender particularly since there is a real possibility she may chosen as the nominee.

Rather I'm looking to Al Gore as the candidate that seems to bridge the schism between most factions in the Democratic Party. I want to go forward united (as much as that is possibe) as the strong, smart body I know Democrats can be.