Will anyone ask her at YearlyKos how we can trust her if she hires people like Mark Penn?  How can we trust her when she joins groups like the DLC?  Will she come out and say she's proud being a Democrat?  Why do people like Peter Chernin(some big honcho at Faux) hold fund raisers for her?  Is she trying to do the Michael "keep your friends close .. and your enemies closer" Corleone kind of thing?  One last thing. How will her Presidency futher the agenda of the Democratic Party?  Because the agenda of the Party and the DLC are two different things.

unabated.

Edwards's suggestion to change the debate format is needed more than ever.

That is the ONLY way to flush Clinton out on the issues, to make her have to defend herself in more than soundbites.

This should not surprise anyone.  Wilson is a Republican after all.  He's probably moved a little left from earlier but I'm sure he's very comfortable with the Clinton's taking power again.  The sensible squishy middle.

This oughta get her two or three votes.

A lot of people have come to respect Joe Wilson.  Both for his anti-war stance and his courage and fight.  Having his support can't hurt.

LOL,

Yeah Okay. I guess she thinks we're stupid now? Like we're that sheepish. You'd have to be a fool , if endorsements like this are going to sway you from one candidate to another. I'm sorry, but I just don't believe that the Blogging community is that dumb.

Well, he would probably like a job in the next administration, and placed his bet on the frontrunner.

I hope her YK appearance isn't too contentious; it seems like a Sister Souljah opportunity for her, and we don't need that.

This is a great vote of confidence for Hillary Clinton.  Wilson is highly respected and he is also brilliant.

This is a good day for Hillary - not just the polls that show her well ahead in Florida but also nationally and now the endorsement of Ambassador Wilson.

Congratulations Hillary!

I'm sure Wilson has his reasons for supporting Clinton, but they are not mine.

As I said on the diary that scooped this one, even your sour grapes can't make this endorsement less sweet.

Who is his wife endorsing?

That worked out well, didn't it?!

In 2004, Howard Dean, not John Kerry, was the one really holding the Administration's feet to the fire over Iraq. Kerry pretended to agree with Dean to win the nomination then reverted to form as soon as he did.

History is replaying itself here. Hillary is pretending not to be the biggest Democratic hawk who STILL has not admitted her war authorization vote was a mistake. Wilson's comment, "she is the one candidate in my judgment who understands the need to get America out of harm's way" is a bald faced lie or proof that his judgment is not sound: Edwards has renounced his vote, Obama opposed this war from the start, Richardson wants to pull ALL our troops out of Iraq.

All Wilson has done here is destroyed his own credibility. I wonder what he thinks he's getting in return. If it's access to the person he thinks will be the next President, he'll have to wait in line behind Rupert Murdoch and other "Hill-Raisers" (minimum required fundraising $1,000,000) who are bankrolling her campaign.

I take issue with the assertion that Hillary has rolled this out:

"to gain support among the liberal base, the blogosphere in particular, which she has conspicuously held at arm's length."

The blogosphere itself has held Hillary at arm's length. Look at the amount of senseless neocon style attacks she gets here. When she brought out her plan to end the war there wasn't even a discussion of the PLAN, only neocon talking point attacks of how she did this or was that. It is old politics and a neocon specialty that if you can't defeat a person's ideas you attack their character which is exactly what many in the blogosphere do concerning Hillary.

So even if I were to agree with your assertion that Hillary has held the blogosphere at arm's length I would certainly understand why she did.

Joe Wilson's endorsement will raise an interesting question for the former ambassador.  Mary Matlin and James Carville wrote letters to the judge sentencing Scooter Libby asking him to be lenient because they know Libby is devoted to his family.  Given that it is no secret that Carville is in Senator Clinton's camp, did he have any words with her about her supporter's request for leniency?

Do some research rssrai.  Because you haven't got a fucking clue.

How can we trust her when she joins groups like the DLC?  Please, Edwards was a DLC'er as well. I guess his pandering gives him a pass.

"I can't understand this when Hillary's advisors wanted to be lenient on Libby."

I mean this seriously: get a clue. Where do you come up with this shit? Do you have a single fact to back up your claim? Come on now... surely you have a single fact.

And Tom Daschle is a key Obama adviser. So your point is what?

You have to understand that Joe Wilson has been friends with the Clintons for 10 years. Bill Clinton had been the one who appointed him ambassador in the 90s. The endorsement isn't much of a surprise therefore or even much of a political statement.

All the Democratic candidate want to get our troops out of Iraq now (5 years too late).  But the thing to listen carefully for today is which candidates want to close down the multi-million dollar U.S. Military Bases (14 of them?), and is really serious about a non-colonial foreign policy and telling our corrupt multi-national Corporations to let Iraq have their own Oil back?

-Dennis Kucinich
-Mike Gravel

That's it.

Hillary Clinton will keep the underlying status-quo going on which means that we'll never really "get out of" Iraq.

Where is my post from this morning about Joe Wilson's endorsement?

I repeat:

Is anyone really surprised with this endorsement?  I mean, people need to understand that Joe Wilson's fame with Democrats comes from the fact that Wilson STOOD UP TO BUSH AND CHENEY, not because of Joe Wilson's positions on the issues.

There is a reason that Wilson voted for:

George Herbert Walker Bush (1988 & 1992)
Bob Dole (1996)
George W. Bush (2000)

He voted for Kerry in 2004 after Bush went after his wife and his credibility.

Joe Wilson has worked in the government for years, definitely back to before Clinton was President.

Since Wilson has a history of 1) voting for Republicans and 2) being a part of the DC culture through the Clinton years, I don't know why any THINKING PERSON would be shocked by Wilson endorsing Clinton.

She's a fixture of the DC culture, and Wilson has been through a Clinton administration.  The mess about her plan being the best plan, is just bologna...no, it's potted meat.

He's comfortable with the Clintons because of his history in DC and her "close-to-GOP" DLC philosophy.

No surprise here.  Not a knock on Wilson, just an thoughtful analysis.  Everyone should have expected this.  

While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. I would like see Senator Clinton support more international problems that affect our place in this world, such as global poverty. We should not forget the commitment made towards the U.N. Millennium Goals (a pact of ending extreme world hunger by the year 2025) in 2000. While the U.S. government and media keep focusing on defense policies and the war in Iraq, 1.2 billion people in the world continue surviving on less than $1 dollar a day. According to The Borgen Project, an annual $19 billion dollars is needed to eliminate half of the extreme poverty affecting the world by the year 2015. To my sense, it is almost unacceptable to have spent so far more than $340 billion in Iraq only, when we have more than war immunities to change the world and eliminate poverty.

Joe Wilson's pre-mature endorsement of Hillary doesn't enhance her street cred --- it lowers Wilson's ... Hillary & Bill Clinton betrayed the core values of the Democratic party when they crossed over to the Republican side and ramrodded home NAFTA and PNTR with China .... Come to think of it, welfare reform wasn't too compassionate either ...The Clintons are Republican LITE - - - financed by Wall Street for Wall Street - - - everybody else gets the shaft - - - workers here and abroad - - - Hillary is incapable of reforming a corportate-controlled oligarchy that she is a by-product of .... Do not be fooled ...  You will not get health care reform from Hillary ... she said as much at the Reno forum in February, promising reform the end of her second term.  Here is a book for all Independent and Democrats to check out for the scoop on the Clintons.  Author is John Macarthur.  Title is: The Selling of Free Trade: Washington, NAFTA and the Subversion of American Democracy ... The Clintons are a couple of corporate-financed con artists