What a sucky argument. "But, but, but, Kerry did it!?!?!" Bwhahaha. Of course, we ABSOLUTELY SHOULD have a higher standard. Kerry was running against an incumbent who had 90+% approval ratings during his first term, and 50+ throughout most of 2004, plus a media environment dominated by Fox News. The GOP brand has taken a beating since, and we absolutely should be holding our nominee to a higher standard and expecting more from (ahem) him.
And while you may be right that Obama would have voted for the AUMF when he was in the senate, the fact is that he did not. You can whine and say that's unfair to your candidate, but this isn't a contest to be fair to Hillary. Taking responsibility isn't about what's fair to you, it's about owning up for your action. And Hillary was absolutely disgusting and Bushian in her refusal to admit her HUGE, OBVIOUS mistake. It would crystalize, once and for all, the weakness and surrender of the Dem opposition to GOP war-mongering to nominate someone in 2008 who voted for the war and refuses to commit to ending it. What better way to bookend this era in history as the one in which Lieberdems and their DLC patsies aided and abetted the GOP in their war crimes and affronts to human decency? Thank God the DLC doesn't run this party anymore. What a bunch of morons.
P.S. This diary, like so many of Alegre's, is really awful and bad for he party. It's obvious that she, like Hillary (and Jerome), puts her right to stamp her feet above the best interests of Democrats. And yet there it goes straight to the top of the rec list. You Hillary supporters really need some better quality control. It's absolutely hilarious that Hillary supporters would question Obama's ability to hire people, like that's a favorable comparison. She went into this race with more advantages than any candidate in recent memory, and lost because the incompetents who ran her campaign (a.k.a. the pople who pay Alegre's salary) were too dumb to realize their error in focusing on "big," "important" states. You're going to have to come up with better anti-Democrat smear jobs than this if you want to ruin Obama to maybe give Hillary the chance to get crushed by McCain in 2012.
