Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity

All three candidates who are members of the Senate were in the Cheasapeake region when the vote was held; the only one not to vote was Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D- NY).  Obama voted to strip the bill of Telecom immunity, while Senator McCain voted to keep immunity in the bill.

What does this mean about Clinton's dedication to civil rights?

She cant be bothered to show up to even vote when she is actually in the region?

Or did she just duck the issue, trying to play for the center?


Poll
Do you approve of Senator Clinton not showing up to vote on the matter of telecom immunity?
Yes
No

Votes: 13
Results : Vote Link : Polls

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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

Clinton was actually NOT in the area today as she is in Texas.


by americanincanada on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:19:35 PM EST

Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

Politico.com says otherwise:

"The vote also provided an opportunity to showcase the key differences on national security between presidential candidates, as Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) voted against immunity for telecoms, and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.),  voted to keep immunity in the bill. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) did not show up for the vote.

All three candidates were in the Washington area Tuesday morning for the region's three primaries."


Who killed our leaders? Who holds our reins? Who is our enemy?
by dem sam on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:22:12 PM EST
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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

But don't forget:

Obama lives in a bullet-proof glass house where he can throw stones at other houses all he wants, but none penentrate his own.


by Sensible on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:31:59 PM EST
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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

read it and tear up.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0 208/Dems_fall_well_short_of_stripping_im munity_from_spy_bill.html


Who killed our leaders? Who holds our reins? Who is our enemy?
by dem sam on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:22:41 PM EST

Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

Ah, yes.  The desperate tone rings loud.  Don't actually explain the facts - just attack Obama.  True Clinton style.

I look forward to Hillary's continued downward spiral.  Not that I'm a huge Obama fan either.

Obama may have problems in the general winning people over, but it is already a fact that Hillary cannot given her high unlikability polling that hasn't changed in years.  America has decided on her, and it isn't for her to be President.

Keep her in the Senate.  If she's such a reliable vote, then she'll be happy voting for the next several years.


Be a Jan fan! Schakowsky for US Senate.
by passionateprogressive on Wed Feb 13, 2008 at 08:56:37 AM EST
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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

ooh - thats an interesting tactic - when you are confronted with evidence that contradicts your claim, resort to name calling.

It reflects a level of maturity that runs parallel to a Labrador humping someones leg.


Who killed our leaders? Who holds our reins? Who is our enemy?
by dem sam on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 05:32:58 PM EST

Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

I'm a Clinton supporter, detest Obama, and I am hugely disappointed she didn't show for this vote.

Without understanding the necessity of defending the Constitution, she indicates she is accepting of the meme government is corporation, c.1988.
(Obama is even worse, LYING about his pac money,
but this does not excuse Clinton.) If we are  truly to clean the Bush mess, politicians must be free to act and vote for the best interests of the country, not ATandT.

If the even know how to vote, anymore, independent of ATandT...

Whoever told her not to show was wrong, if she's going to lead, she will have to risk, independent of the business PACS, American government as the founding fathers saw.

Hope she comes around on this point...


by Marsha1 on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:38:34 PM EST
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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

I wish she could have been there but I support her leaving Washington early this morning for Texas, where she has been most of the day. She has a few more events there as well. CNN has been following her all day, IN TEXAS.


by americanincanada on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:15:33 PM EST

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Oh, let's see 130 "present" votes in the Illinois Senate, and then those problematic 6 "mistake" votes, where he pushed the wrong button, not to mention an 80% absence rate in the Senate since September for Obama....

I'm thinking ONE "Not Present" vote comes pretty close.

Yeah. Right...How do you spell H_Y_P_O_C_R_I_S_Y boys and girls?


"I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell." Harry S Truman
by Tennessean on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 06:41:29 PM EST

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It's okay.

This vote didn't matter or anything.

It's not like my liberties are slowly being teared away by a Congress too stupid to stop it.


by MrMacMan on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 07:00:46 PM EST
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Re: Clinton Skips Vote on Telecom Immunity (none / 0)

It is not hypocrasy; you cannot defend the actions of your candidate, os you attack anothers.

"Hey! Don't point out my candidates indefensible positions. Your candidate did THIS back in his state senate days!"

It is the mark of a zealot who does not think, but rather simply reacts, no better then those on the right who could only attack John Kerry when pointed out to the many indefensible parts of George W. Bush.

You fail.


Who killed our leaders? Who holds our reins? Who is our enemy?
by dem sam on Tue Feb 12, 2008 at 10:12:11 PM EST
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