Did you hear the news? Hillary passed a threshold the other day! She was obviously very excited about it, indeed she wouldn't shut up about it. Yes, yesterday Hillary officially crossed the threshold between Democrat and Republican, following in the proud tradition of fellow failed presidential hopeful Joe Lieberman, she has shown where her true loyalties lie, with John McCain and the rest of the fearmongering, warmongering, liemongering Republicans.
A few days ago I wrote about Hillary trying out to be McCain's VP by stabbing her own party (what used to be her party) in the back by saying John McCain is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama, our nominee. Yesterday she made it obvious this was no slip of the tongue, this is apparently her new strategy:
“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.
“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.
Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with.”
She fails to explain what this threshold is, and how she has demonstrated that she has crossed it, along with McCain, while Obama apparently hasn't. Is it that she in on the Senate Armed Services Committee? Well that shouldn't matter, since Obama is on the Senate Foreign Relations committee and the Senate Homeland Security committee, which would seem to put him in a better position to deal with foreign policy and homeland security, while Hillary might be in a better position to invade foreign countries. But this isn't likely the qualification.
It certainly isn't number of years as an elected official, because Obama has four more years of legislative experience than Hillary does. It must have been from when she was First Lady, without security clearance, to a president who came into office without any foreign policy experience (and the Republicans attacked him just as she is attacking Obama now). Can you get commander-in-chief experience through having sex with someone else who has it? Is it like an STD? Maybe we should check with Monica Lewinksy and see if she's shown any symptoms of breaking the threshold.
Maybe it was following Bush into war like a bellicose little sheep, believing Bush's lies, giving him the "benefit of the doubt" to invade Iraq even while millions of Americans, Barack Obama included, could easily see right through the deception. McCain did that, Lieberman did that, and Hillary Clinton did that, and then continued to support the war for years, even urging against setting a timeline for withdrawal, all until it became politically unpopular to be for the war. That must be the threshold since she has no other relevant experience! And since Bush has more commander-in-chief experience than all of the candidates combined, and he was the "chief" beating the war drum from the beginning, so he must be the most qualified to be president out of everyone! And if Hillary has made it to the McCain/Bush side of the threshold, she must be the best qualified out of the Democrats. Let's check:
As for your own qualifications: your failure to read the NIE report before you voted to authorize the Iraq war; your inexplicable and falsely characterized vote against the Levin amendment; your vote for the authorization of Bush's war (which then became your war); and your truly astonishing vote for the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment to give your President similar permission to protect us in Iran prove conclusively to me that you are as qualified to be Commander-in-Chief as Bush and McCain, no more, no less. That is to say: not at all.
Oh wait, that's right, Bush has probably been our worst president, and McCain and Hillary voted for and supported his most destructive policy! I guess experience and crossing the "I supported the war in Iraq" threshold doesn't actually have anything to do with being qualified to be president! Obama has been saying this for long time, he said from the very beginning that no one had more experience than Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld, and look where that got us, yet we are still here talking about experience, and the pro-war threshold.
Maybe just supporting the war isn't enough, maybe renouncing your own party and embracing the Republicans is the final step before you can officially cross that threshold. If that's the case, Hillary finally got her bonafides the other day when she first stabbed her party in the back with the experience argument, and embraced McCain. Yesterday's comments were just icing on the cake from someone getting all too comfortable on the Republican side of the threshold.
I don't know about you, but I'm sure glad Obama hasn't crossed that threshold. In fact, it should be unthinkable for any Democrat to support someone who has.
At least Keith Olbermann has the journalistic integrity to point out the obvious, while the rest of the media gets their stories from Clinton HQ:
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