The Obama-Clinton Two-Step

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Why? I don't know. I should know because this isn't exactly rocket science,

but I'm a writer, not a techno-nerd. Back in the day, before blogs, face book,

and myspace, came along and ruined the party, I had a flashy web-site, with

a web master who understood all the technical stuff. Look how pretty it was!

Alas, those days are gone, and my web master was last seen wandering the streets

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Anyway, back to the important stuff.

Curious how to the two top dogs in the Democratic presidential show down

were on the stump, promising that they would not cut off funding to the

troops, and then turned around and did just that, voting against their

own party, and showing the height of disregard for the safety of the men and woman in uniform serving in Iraq.

On Jan 17th, Senator Clinton said

"I am not going to cut American troops' funding...they're in harm's way".

But that's exactly what she did.

Senator Obama made similar overtures, only to turn around and vote

no as well.

Both made highly staged, last minute appearances in the senate chamber

to milk as much drama as possible. Their irresponsibility only eclipsed by

their desire for political showmanship, to pander to the extreme left of

the party.

Even as an outside observer, it sounded smart. Swing hard left in time for

the primaries, then pull to the center in the general election...but the move

seems to have backfired. Even Cindy Sheehan, who has become the centrifuge

and spokesperson for opposition to the war, officially announced this morning

that she was breaking ranks with the Democratic party.

And the political cross-fire is not only coming from Republicans. In a statement

today, Democratic Senator, Joe Biden, who supported the funding, criticized both

candidates;

“As long as there are troops who are in a position where, if we don’t fund them they are going

to be hurt, I’m not going to cut off funding,” Biden said during a meeting with Des Moines

Register editors and reporters “That’s what the other candidates said too, but they changed their mind.”

Cordially

Joe