dartagnan wrote:eject everythings he tried to propose. They hate her guts. Even Ted Kennedy is working against her, and after the slime tactics against Obama, she would have turned away even more liberals.
You need to find out what the candidates stand for beforehand, not afterwards.
Umm -- I posted links to her platform? The Boston Globe's analysis? I don't expect you, Mr. ad hoc, to read anything I've posted but I am well-informed about her positions and accomplishments.
Board of Editors of Yale Law Review (Obama was Editor in Chief of Harvard Law Review -- a major accomplishment as well).
Clinton has served on five Senate committees: Committee on Budget (2001–2002), Committee on Armed Services (since 2003), Committee on Environment and Public Works (since 2001), Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions(since 2001) and Special Committee on Aging. She is also a Commissioner of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (since 2001). Nobody can match this record as a first-termer, including Obama and McCain.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, Clinton obtained funding for recovery for her state. She investigated and took the leading role in looking at issues faced by first responders. She voted for the Patriot Act and then took a lead role in investigating its abuses and voting for a compromise in March 2006; she worked in that regard to obtain a consensus vote in favor of the compromise.
She helped broker a compromise between Jewish objectors to the Mormon practice of proxy baptisms and the LDS Church.
As a member of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, Clinton supported the Afghan invasion. She strongly supports women's rights in the middle east.
Clinton voted in favor of the October 2002 Iraq War Resolution, which authorized United States President George W. Bush to use military force against Iraq, should such action be required to enforce a United Nations Security Council Resolution after pursuing with diplomatic efforts. She also voted against the Levin Amendment to the Resolution, which would have required the President to conduct vigorous diplomacy at the U.N., and would have also required a separate Congressional authorization to unilaterally invade Iraq. She did vote for the Byrd Amendment to the Resolution, which would have limited the Congressional authorization to one year increments, but the only mechanism necessary for the President to renew his mandate without any Congressional oversight was to claim that the Iraq War was vital to national security each year the authorization required renewal.
After the Iraq War began, Clinton made trips to both Iraq and Afghanistan to visit American troops stationed there, such as the 10th Mountain Division based in Fort Drum, New York. On a visit to Iraq in February 2005, Clinton noted that the insurgency had failed to disrupt the democratic elections held earlier, and that parts of the country were functioning well. Noting that war deployments are draining regular and reserve forces, she co-introduced legislation to increase the size of the regular United States Army by 80,000 soldiers to ease the strain. In late 2005, Clinton said that while immediate withdrawal from Iraq would be a mistake, Bush's pledge to stay "until the job is done" is also misguided, as it gives Iraqis "an open-ended invitation not to take care of themselves." She criticized the administration for making poor decisions in the war, but added that it was more important to solve the problems in Iraq. This centrist and somewhat vague stance caused frustration among those in the Democratic party who favor immediate withdrawal. Clinton supported retaining and improving health benefits for veterans, and lobbied against the closure of several military bases.
Sources; Some Wiki; some personal knowledge.