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2005-12-06 Home Front: Politix

This is a follow-on from Steve's story yesterday

Anti-war activists furious with Sen. Hillary Clinton are vowing to bird-dog her everywhere she goes, starting with a swanky Manhattan fund-raiser tonight. Clinton's letter last week clarifying her position on Iraq - which included rejecting a timetable for withdrawal - fanned the anger of some war opponents, who decided to launch a campaign against New York's junior senator.

"We're calling it Bird-Dog Hillary," said Medea Benjamin of the peace group Codepink.

"I'm so mad at her," said Nancy Kricorian, Codepink's New York City coordinator. "We will dog her wherever she goes. ~~Woof.~~" Kricorian's group and several others plan to show up tonight at Crobar in Manhattan, where former President Bill Clinton is the top draw at a fund-raiser for his wife. The idea is to have protesters tail the senator around the state and the country in hopes of persuading her to oppose the war. Protesters from the group interrupted a Clinton speech Saturday in Chicago and an unrelated group demonstrated at her appearance Friday at a Democratic fund-raiser in Kentucky. Codepink is also organizing a bigger rally for Dec. 20, when Clinton heads to San Francisco for a bar association benefit and an interview session with Jane Pauley. Although she criticized President Bush's handling of the war in her letter, her no-timetable stance particularly peeved the activists.

"Anti-war" activists have abnormally high levels of peevishness. It must be a glandular thing.

"Stop waffling, and let's work on bringing the troops home," said Bill Dobbs of United for Peace. Dobbs and Benjamin predicted Clinton or any Democrat would lose a White House bid in 2008 if they run on a pro-war platform. Democratic consultant Hank Sheinkopf said Clinton has little to fear from anti-war activists, as long as she looks deliberative. "The right wing and the left wing both want to move her to the left. She can't let them do that," Sheinkopf said.

With an attitude like that, Mr. Sheinkopf won't be a Dem consultant much longer. The Deaniacs will drive him out. He's making way too much sense.

Clinton's office stood by her letter yesterday. "In her letter, Senator Clinton laid out a thoughtful explanation to her constituents of her position on Iraq," said spokesman Philippe Reines.

Posted by Seafarious 2005-12-06 09:28|| || Front Page|| [11144 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Given her policy of faking a move to the center, Code Pink is doing her a favor here.

Posted by Grunter 2005-12-06 09:59|| 2005-12-06 09:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Dobbs and Benjamin predicted Clinton or any Democrat would lose a White House bid in 2008 if they run on a pro-war platform.

Or if they run on an anti-war platform. The democrats ought to have had a pretty good shot at the WH in 2008. It's not like W will have the kind of coat tails RR gave his dad. But the insanity of Dean and what one can imagine coming out of the 2007 primaries is going to turn the country off to whomever the donks nominate. And it's not like the Murtha's will leave and sane youngers will rescue the party from them. They are looking more and more like the Whigs all the time.

Posted by Ebbick Angaing5099 2005-12-06 10:05|| 2005-12-06 10:05|| Front Page Top

#3 "With an attitude like that, Mr. Sheinkopf won't be a Dem consultant much longer. The Deaniacs will drive him out. He's making way too much sense."

Yup. Check out Howard Dean's True Colors at michellemalkin.com...

Posted by Dave D. 2005-12-06 10:11|| 2005-12-06 10:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Or by 2008, W's coat tails could be monumental.

I think we are finally starting to see the President fighting back, perhaps he has finally realized he simply can't make the left like him and this is his last term. If the trend of the past few weeks continues, by the time 2008 gets here the conservatives will be totally fired up.

Posted by Evil Elvis 2005-12-06 12:32|| 2005-12-06 12:32|| Front Page Top

Posted by BigEd 2005-12-06 13:23|| 2005-12-06 13:23|| Front Page Top

#6 Much as I hate to say it about Hilly, if you've got Medea Benjamin pissed at you, you're doing something right. That broad's a big-time commie propagandist from way back. She never met a socialist utopia she didn't like.

Posted by mojo">mojo 2005-12-06 14:40|| 2005-12-06 14:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Yay Hillary!!!!!

Posted by liberalhawk 2005-12-06 15:30|| 2005-12-06 15:30|| Front Page Top

#8 Bring it on bitches! I will crush your skulls like bugs between my massive thighs!

Posted by Hillary Rodham Clinton 2005-12-06 15:44|| 2005-12-06 15:44|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm not surprised that's where their skulls would be.

Posted by W. Jefferson Clinton 2005-12-06 15:51|| 2005-12-06 15:51|| Front Page Top

#10 thing is, IMHO, if Hildabeast thought she could still win, she'd be right there with the Code Pinkos. She's feinting to the center only because her Macchiavellian assessment tells her she has to - it's all a charade

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-06 15:56|| 2005-12-06 15:56|| Front Page Top

#11 "That broad's a big-time commie propagandist from way back. She never met a socialist utopia she didn't like."

Which one? The only difference between Hillary Clinton and Medea Benjamin is that one is a clever, conniving, patient commie bitch and the other is a stupid, impulsive, clueless commie bitch.

But they're both commie bitches.

Posted by Dave D. 2005-12-06 16:06|| 2005-12-06 16:06|| Front Page Top

#12 thing is, IMHO, if Hildabeast thought she could still win, she'd be right there with the Code Pinkos. She's feinting to the center only because her Macchiavellian assessment tells her she has to - it's all a charade

Exactal. She has a well tuned political ear and good pollsters.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-06 17:25|| 2005-12-06 17:25|| Front Page Top

#13 Or what Dave D. said.

Posted by Shipman 2005-12-06 17:26|| 2005-12-06 17:26|| Front Page Top

#14 Hillary vs. Moonbats.

Who do I root for? Who do I root for?

Posted by Mike 2005-12-06 17:41|| 2005-12-06 17:41|| Front Page Top

#15 mutual Gaeiacide

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-12-06 18:09|| 2005-12-06 18:09|| Front Page Top

#16 "Medea"

An appropriate name for child-murder loving filth.

Posted by Ernest Brown 2005-12-06 19:50|| saturninretrograde.blogspot.com]">[saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2005-12-06 19:50|| Front Page Top

#17 Sister Soulja moment in 5 ... 4 ... 3 ...

Posted by DMFD 2005-12-06 20:20|| 2005-12-06 20:20|| Front Page Top

#18 Bring it on bitches! I will crush your skulls like bugs between my massive thighs!

Thanks for delaying the dinner I was just about to eat... :-)

Posted by Raj 2005-12-06 20:34|| 2005-12-06 20:34|| Front Page Top

#19 Bill Clinton's own comments and wafflins has effectively destroyed any legacy and credibility, or claims thereof, Hillary andor the Dems can get from Darth Stainious, and hiding between nation-wide MSM-spreadt "Hillary = Good Girl = All Men are Bad ergo elect Hillary" isn't doing it for her. Neither will her fellow Lefties attacking her. Hillary and the Dems have nothing for 2006 and 2008 save the MSM, AND NEW 9-11's, i.e. [GOP-blamed] AMERICAN HIROSHIMAS, where Hillary and the Dems will rule because they "survived" and had "warned" America about the consequences of Dubya's and America's "Fascist Socialist" policies, NOT TO BE COMPARED TO PEACE-LOVING, DO-DID-NUTHING, "WE TOLD YOU SO" INNOCENT GOP-BULLIED ANTI-COMMUNIST COMMUNIST SOCIALISM, the "Other" Repub Fascist Rightist Conservative Nationalist anti-Socialist, etc. Socialism. REST ASSURED ITS YOUR FAULT AND ONLY YOURS YOU DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY REALLY MEANT WHEN THEY LIED TO YOU, AND JUST BECAUSE AMERICA IS A REPRESENTATIVE AND CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY DOESN'T MEAN ITS THE JOB OF THE WAFFLIN, DIALECTIC, POLICRATIC, POLITICALLY CORRECT/DENIABLE, HYPERCORRECT/DENIABLE, GOVERNMENTIST POL JOB TO TELL YOU WHAT THEY MEAN, OR THAT ITS YOUR FAULT, OR THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW YOU HAVE NO RIGHTS!? Its NOT the Dems or Pols fault no law exists in America that prevents them from telling the people or the voters the truth of anything.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2005-12-06 22:20|| 2005-12-06 22:20|| Front Page Top

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