Clinton, the Military, and Gonzales
14 March 2007 12:11 am by Taylor Marsh
She\’s looking presidential in this one.
Flawless production values.
Good script.
Compassionate delivery.
As for subject matter, it\’s nothing short of the most important issue we face today. Because if we don\’t keep faith with our troops we lose our nation\’s soul. Clinton gets this one right and delivers it perfectly. Her Armed Services experience and what she\’s learned in the committee has served her very well, which is why she wanted the assignment. Hillary\’s comfort in talking military issues shines through.
Clinton will also come out, as Edwards did yesterday, to call for Gonzales\’s resignation. It happens on \”Good Morning America\” today.
In an exclusive interview to air Wednesday morning, March 14, on \”Good
Morning America,\” Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the front-runner for
the Democratic presidential nomination, for the first time called for the
resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.\”The buck should stop somewhere,\” Clinton told ABC News senior
political correspondent Jake Tapper, \”and the attorney general —
who still seems to confuse his prior role as the president\’s personal attorney
with his duty to the system of justice and to the entire country — should
resign.(snip)
When Clinton\’s husband took office in 1993, one of the first actions his
attorney general took was to remove every U.S. attorney. Clinton was asked
how this was different from the termination of eight U.S. attorneys last December.\”There is a great difference,\” Clinton said. \”When a new president
comes in, a new president gets to clean house. It\’s not done on a case-by-case
basis where you didn\’t do what some senator or member of Congress told you
to do in terms of investigations into your opponents. It is \’Let\’s start afresh\’
and every president has done that.\”When asked what she\’d like to see from President Bush and White House aide
Karl Rove, Clinton said, \”The president needs to be very forthcoming
— what did he say, what did he know, what did he do? And Karl Rove is
clearly in the middle of this from all the evidence we have seen so far, and
I think he owes the Congress and the country an explanation.\”
UPDATE (1:41 p.m.): Ignore Sean Hannity (what else is old?). Bill Clinton didn\’t act like Bush on U.S. attorney firings.
UPDATE (10:35 a.m.): National outcry calling for Gonzales to resign.
