Via Huffington Post, I see that former President Bill Clinton told Charlie Rose that - given his wife's overwhelming experience as a second-term Senator - voting for Barack Obama for President is "rolling the dice."
Wouldn't it be more astute, in the light of the Clinton campaign's recent focus on Obama's admitted past use of cocaine, to call electing the young black guy "shooting craps?"
Unfortunately, in any comparisons of the Great Crap Shoot between Hillary's vaunted "experience" versus Obama's allegedly not being "ready for prime time", I can't help but go back to the prelude to the Iraq war - which is in my humble opinion, the biggest deliberate policy disaster in recent memory. At the time, the relatively conservative Florida Democratic Senator, Bob Graham, was a key member of the Intelligence Committee with access to the classified reports on Saddam's "WMD." When BushCo was selling the war, Graham began frantically dissenting based on his understanding that the case for war was bogus. On the Senate floor he warned his colleagues, "Friends, I encourage you to read the classified intelligence reports which are much sharper than what is available in declassified form...We are going to be increasing the threat level against the people of the United States...Blood is going to be on your hands."
Did Hillary even bother to read the full Iraq NIE reports, which were available to all Senators ? Naaahhh! She rolled the dice and voted to authorize Bush's war.
Contrast "Not Ready for Prime Time" Obama in October of 2002 on Hillary's Iraq war authorization crap shoot:
I know that even a successful war against Iraq will require a US occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences. I know that an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda...The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not – we will not – travel down that hellish path blindly. Nor should we allow those who would march off and pay the ultimate sacrifice, who would prove the full measure of devotion with their blood, to make such an awful sacrifice in vain.
Under pressure, on the most critical issue facing her in the entirety of her political life, Hillary rolled snake eyes.
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