There are some stories floating around the media about an odd joke Hillary Clinton made today at a rally in Iowa. There are also some stories about her singing of the National Anthem being caught on an open mike yesterday. However, I’m far more interested in the tone of her remarks today about the war in Iraq and President Bush, and about her attitude to taking on the challenge of that war were she to become president. From Reuters:

“The president has said this is going to be left to his successor,” the New York senator said during a jammed rally in a fairground exhibit hall in Davenport as she concluded a two-day campaign swing in the state that kicks off the 2008 presidential campaign.

“I think it’s the height of irresponsibility and I really resent it,” she said. “This was his decision to go to war, he went with an ill-conceived plan, an incompetently executed strategy and we should expect him to extricate our country from this before he leaves office.”

Are you kidding me? Someone who would have us believe that she is fit to be president is whining that she personally resents that she will have to deal with the reality of a war that the United States is engaged in? As if this just about how large her workload is going to be! The current president is somehow obliged to clear the decks so that she doesn’t have to deal with these problems, instead of making the best judgment in terms of the national interests of the United States.

Well, Hillary, if the job sounds just too damn hard, then there’s no one telling you that you have to do it.

Truly unbelievable.

(I apologize — especially in the light of the previous post — if this one does not seem all that “charitable.” Personally, I think it best for everyone, including herself, that Hillary Clinton does not find herself burdened with responsibilities that overwhelm her abilities.)

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