HILLARY CLINTON GETS THE LIEBERMAN TREATMENT from angry Democratic activists. Obviously, only one potential Democratic candidate can fully pass their test. But he's perfectly positioned. He's even a veteran! . . .Incidentally, the "candidate" Putz mockingly refers to here is Markos Zuniga, whose blog Putz frequently ridicules.
Of course, this "angry Democratic activists" theory of Putz's --- that the crazy, anti-war left fringe are unfairly targeting Hillary and Lieberman-- ignores the fact that John Kerry, John Edwards and Al Gore, three-fourths of the past two Democratic presidential tickets, have all renounced the war in Iraq, with Kerry and Edwards going so far as to renounce their votes on the Iraq resolution. It ignores the fact that the other Democratic front-runners from 2004, Dick Gephardt, Wesley Clark and Howard Dean have all come out against the war.
It also conveniently ignores the fact that 66% of the American people disapprove of the President's Iraq policy, and that 62% of Americans believe the war wasn't worth it. And a whopping 91% of Democrats disapprove of Bush's Iraq policy.
So Lieberman and Hillary, who have to this point refused to renounce their votes unlike most Democratic leaders, and are thus well out of the mainstream on the issue, and a fringe minority of their own party, are understandably getting heat from the party that they're supposed to be representing.
So when Putz writes "angry Democratic activists" he really means "mainstream Democrats who are opposed to the war in Iraq, along with mainstream America, and who openly criticize President Bush."
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