3.2 million members across America - from carpenters to stay-at-home moms to business leaders - we work together to realize the progressive promise of our country. MoveOn is a service - a way for busy but concerned citizens to find their political voice in a system dominated by big money and big media.
Started by Joan Blades and Wes Boyd, two Silicon Valley entrepreneurs. Although neither had experience in politics, they shared deep frustration with the partisan warfare in Washington D.C. and the ridiculous waste of our nation's focus at the time of the impeachment mess. On September 18th 1998, they launched an online petition to "Censure President Clinton and Move On to Pressing Issues Facing the Nation."
"Moveon.org endorsed [Sen. Barack Obama] -- which is like a gusher of money that never seems to slow down," Clinton said to a meeting of donors. "We have been less successful in caucuses because it brings out the activist base of the Democratic Party. MoveOn didn't even want us to go into Afghanistan. I mean, that's what we're dealing with. And you know they turn out in great numbers. And they are very driven by their view of our positions, and it's primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don't agree with them. They know I don't agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/celeste-fr emon/clinton-slams-democratic_b_97484.ht ml
But in public she said something different. Hillary Clinton's closing remarks during MoveOn.org Political Action's unprecedented Virtual Town Hall meeting on Iraq -- where seven presidential candidates answered questions from MoveOn's 3.2 million members -
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iFtHoNu-2Pc
Another online group that Hillary has problems with is Code Pink. Why? Maybe because of this...
1. In defending her 2002 war authorization vote, Hillary says that given the information she had at the time it was the right way to vote. How well informed was Hillary? It has been reported that Hillary did not even read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.2. At the time of the war authorization vote in 2002, Senator Levin proposed an amendment that would have required a U.N. Security Council Resolution for any use of force against Iraq and would have required the President to come back to Congress for approval. If, as Hillary stated, she never intended the war authorization vote as a go ahead for attack--but rather as a leverage point for the president in getting weapons inspectors into Iraq, why did she vote no on the amendment that would have guaranteed U.N. authorization and Congressional approval?
3. Hillary has said that the Iraqi government must meet certain "benchmarks" or risk losing funding for its security forces and reconstruction. Conditions include: the Government of Iraq assumes greater responsibility for security; and an equitable distribution of the oil revenues of Iraq. Isn't this a classic case of blaming the victims? The U.S. armed forces, arguably the best-trained and equipped military in the world, have barely managed to secure a third of Baghdad's neighborhoods. How much better can the U.S.-installed Iraqi government do? The current Iraqi hydrocarbons legislation is more about distributing Iraqi oil equitably among multi-national corporations than among the Iraqi people.
4. In a recent Democratic debate Hillary said that she believes that the United States is safer now than it was before the 9/11/01 attacks. Given the fact that terrorist attacks worldwide have increased 26% since the start of 2006, how can Hillary justify this claim? According to a CBS News poll taken a little less than a year ago, 84 percent of Americans say they feel less safe or only as safe as they did before 9/11.
5. In a March 2007 interview with reporters from the New York Times, Hillary predicted a "remaining military as well as political mission" in Iraq; she stated that if elected president, she would keep a reduced military force there to fight Al Qaeda, deter Iranian aggression, protect the Kurds and support the Iraqi military. Doesn't this imply that there will be permanent bases and American boots on the ground in Iraq far beyond the 2008 elections if Hillary becomes president?
http://www.listenhillary.org/article.php ?list=type&type=115
MoveOn and Code Pink are the Democratic base. Why does the base and the Clintons not get along? What is the beef?
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