The Senate voted Thursday to condemn an advertisement by the liberal anti-war group MoveOn.org that accused the top military commander in Iraq of betrayal.
The 72-25 vote condemned the full-page ad that appeared in The New York Times last week as Gen. David Petraeus, the top military commander in Iraq, testified on Capitol Hill. The ad was headlined: "General Petraeus or General Betray Us? Cooking the books for the White House."
The resolution condemning the ad was sponsored by conservative Republican John Cornyn of Texas. Voting against it were Democratic presidential hopefuls Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York and Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. This will be a huge problem for Clinton from now on. Moveon.org was created as a Clinton Machine front organization during the Clinton impeachment proceedings. Hillary is a captive of her own creation. She cannot distance herself from them because she is ‘them’. The beast has taken on a life of its own and is no longer controllable by its master; A sure recipe for disaster.
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, another contender for the Democratic nomination, did not vote, although he voted minutes earlier for an alternative resolution by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. That resolution condemned the MoveOn ad as an "unwarranted personal attack." Sounds like Osama-Obama (as Sen. Ted Kennedy (d) in his usual drunken stupor called him) may actually have voted for the intent of the resolution before not voting for it. The old Kerry shuffle!
Good for the Senate! However, you will be hearing the Liberal Losers whining about the Senate spending time debating a newspaper ad, but the issue is much deeper than that. The issue here goes to the core of our being as a nation. Do we support the men and women who serve and protect no matter what we think about their mission, or do we throw them under the bus as happened during the Viet Nam era? The leaders of the Liberal Left are just a bunch of old hippies who got their anti-war credentials wallowing in the mud of the seventies while ‘not-inhaling.’
