The War on Error

(link goes to Slate article by William Saletan)

"If the most important thing to any of you is
choosing someone who did not cast that vote
or has said his vote was a mistake,
then there are others to choose from."

Ms. Clinton,

Your disingenuous, dishonest, calculated, transparent attitude towards whether voting for the war was or was not a mistake leaves a bad taste in the mouth of every New Yorker who voted for you on your bid for the Senate. We have just had six years (and "look forward" to two more) of this intellectual dishonesty at the very top of our government; now you are threatening us with the permanent acceptance of this low standard.

This is not what we are paying you for.

The dissolution of the integrity of one of New York's two Senate votes for the sake of a presidential campaign is a disservice to all those who voted for you, including myself.

Please do some soul-searching. Whether you win or lose the presidency is secondary (to everybody but yourself). A qualified person will be elected (or not; in either case your manipulations and evasions won't make any difference). What is at stake is whether you will continue to serve in your current capacity beyond '12.

If this continues I will personally support any opponent you may run against, for any office, at any point in the future.

Sincerely,

Juan M.
[address withheld from blog]

for new yorkers who want to play along and write to her

(full disclosure; I'm posting this on 4/13 but I wrote and sent it to her via the above contact link on Feb 20. i thought it belonged here since it was probably the main reason I started the blog. for the record, as you can see, I have been campaigning actively for Barack Obama since, fortunately something I'm very happy to do).