Hillary

MANIFESTO

I know that several readers of this blog are big Hillary fans, but a couple of the bloggers I read don't feel that she acquitted herself well over the weekend in New Hampshire regarding her position on Iraq.

David Kurtz's post on the subject is here, and Tom Grieve says at Salon's War Room that

Clinton's husband understood -- at least in the end -- the value of sometimes admitting that he was wrong. Why does she find it so hard to do the same? Does she fear the political fallout from such an admission? That doesn't make a lot of sense: Seventy-five percent of Americans thought the war was the "right decision" in early 2003, but only 40 percent do now, suggesting that a lot of Americans have had the same sort of change of heart that Clinton could acknowledge but won't.

This is clearly an issue that won't go away. With a vast majority of Americans disapproving of a president who can't admit he was wrong, Ms. Clinton would do well to heed such disapprobation.