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Was Hillary wise to confront Gen. Petraeus?
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 Posted: Wed Sep 19, 2007 7:00 am Post subject: Was Hillary wise to confront Gen. Petraeus? |
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 Was Hillary wise to confront Gen. Petraeus?
Hillary Clinton's confrontation with Gen. David Petraeus in questioning the credibility of his Iraq report to Congress represented the kind of political gamble that calculates a near-term win won't add up to a long-term loss.
Category: Commentary
The good news for Clinton was that her telling Petraeus his positive progress report on the military surge required "a willing suspension of disbelief" scored her points with the influential Democratic anti-war left that has been unhappy with her refusal to apologize for voting to authorize the invasion of Iraq.
Her high-profile questioning of the general's credibility also had the plus of pushing out of the media spotlight the embarrassing campaign funding episode in which the Democratic presidential candidate returned a staggering $850,000 in donations raised by Norman Hsu, a prodigious money bundler who turned out to be a fugitive from justice. That case harkened back to some of the fund-raising excesses of the Bill Clinton presidency. Remember the selling of the Lincoln Bedroom?
The bad news for Clinton is that what plays well in a primary campaign can come back to haunt a candidate hunting independent and Republican votes in a general election. What's more, her upbraiding of Petraeus refreshes memories of widely circulated reports in the 1990s of the military's unease with President Bill Clinton because he was perceived as draft dodger during the Vietnam War.
In her career in the U.S. Senate, Clinton has labored mightily to shore up her credentials as a supporter of the military, but with a few brief words she conjured up ghosts of Hillary past, shoveling fresh red meat to Clinton haters.
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