Meet the new Hillary Clinton. Any stance you, the public, take on an issue, she’s right there beside you. For gay rights? Against gay rights? She’s got a way to be on both sides. For the death penalty? Against the death penalty? She agrees.
Take her to task for being wishy-washy, and I’m sure she would argue that she’s just being moderate — just trying to stake out a compromise. After all, this past July, she told the Democratic Leadership Council the following:
Let us start by uniting against the hard-right ideology, of those who have used it to divide Americans and distract us from our common responsibility. We Democrats have not yet succeeded in isolating and defeating the far right, in part because all too often we have allowed ourselves to be split between left, right, and center. We can and should differ with one another on this or that detail of politics and ideas. After all, we are thinking Democrats, not lockstep Republicans.
But let us acknowledge that what separates us on occasion is but a tiny sliver in comparison to the Grand Canyon gap between us and the Republican Party. Now, I know the DLC has taken some shots from some within our party and that it has returned fire too. Well, I think it’s high time for a cease-fire. It’s time for all Democrats to work together based on the fundamental values we all share, values violated every day in Washington by the ideologues of the Republican right. Now, that is not just a dream. That must be our common goal and mission.
Compromise. It’s her new thing. All Democrats should compromise on little things and get on the same message for the greater good.
So just how does flag burning fit into all this? I have no idea. All I know is that Hillary is, once again, trying to “compromise” by having things both ways, and all she’s doing is providing more fodder for attacks by the GOP.
Perhaps I’m wrong. Perhaps the vast majority of Americans only see, “well, she was against flag burning, and that’s good!” Or there are others that see she’s not for a constitutional amendment that would ban flag burning and they think, “that’s good!” I don’t know. I do know that for many of us who closely follow politcs, Hillary is not our gal for President. We want someone who is going to say what they believe, and follow up on it… Not try to negotiate to a place where they think they’ll end up with the most votes.
It’s the principle of the matter, and I’m starting to question Hillary’s.