I second the sentiments of so many Americans - we don't need dynasties in our country. NO MORE BUSHES. NO MORE CLINTONS. The way it looks like things are going, we'll have 12 years of George Bush Sr. - 8 as VP, 4 as pres - (an excellent foreign policy president by the way), 8 years of Bill Clinton, 8 years of Bush Jr., 8 years of Hillary Clinton... and then, oh yes, we will clamor for Jeb Bush.... Then what? George Bush III (Jeb's son) and Chelsea Clinton will be old enough to take up the next generation of the Bush-Clinton tag team. Maybe they can have offspring, eradicate the constitution and formalize a new monarchy? Or they can just keep rigging the system for 52 years of uninterrupted Bush-Clinton rule. I wish I was joking but I find the closeness of former presidents Bush and Clinton to be troubling. I find our willingness to have elected Bush Jr. troubling. I find the front-runner status of Hillary Clinton scary. I find the favorable status of Jeb Bush, as president in waiting, troubling.

SUGGEST WE LOOK AT OTHER DEMOCRATS RUNNING NOW. The groupthink and Bills influence has put you in a trance. Edwards, Rommney anyone. HILLARY NO.

Or he could just be an out of the box Democrat!

I always said Obama should have been an independent.

As for Hilary, her campaign is the same as the Dem campaigns before her with the exception that she gets to piggy back of her former pres hubby. Typical Dem campaign rhetoric, Bash your opponent, make a fuss, have no ideas of your own, and present details only when you have to counter.

Yes, let's put another slacker in the white house.

Jamilah Brown

Where's the contradiction?

This woman will say anything to get elected. Why are Democrats still being fooled by her?

I still don' t know where she stands on the iraq war... and in the past month, she's from Arkansas, Illinois, and New York... these con-men don't deserve to guide our country just to sate their egos.

I am tired of this!

She is playing purely political games, and she will say ANYTHING to get elected. This is but only one example of her double speak. Case-in-point, read what she actually said at the AFL-CIO Forum in Chicago a few days ago.

"remember, you shouldn’t always say everything you think if you’re running for president."

Ofcourse not, why in the world would we ever want to elect a president who actually tells the American people what they actually think.. How foolish of me..

She must have really learned a lot from the Bush admininstration on that front.

These guys (and gal) will never tell you what they really think because they know if they open their big mouths, they ALL might as well forget about being President.

We need a real leader in the White House. Someone who has been an executive and who will make correct, long-term decisions. Hillary is not that person. Her decisions (as evidenced by this comment here) are made for short-term political gain or for a quick soundbite on AC 360. America and the world can not afford short-term answers when life and death and the future of the free world is at stake.

Jihadist terrorists who want to kill us...China wanting to undermine us...Iran killing our troops daily...Mrs. Clinton is the wrong person for President.

What a political beast this woman is.

This sound bite was almost Bush worthy in it's level of divisiveness and stupidity.

I don't need you to take on the right, Mrs. Clinton. I don't need a champion of the left to jump in there and stir up the base the same way Bush has done to the right for the last six years.

The base won't gain you the Presidency, ma'am.

The time for the sort of us versus them mentality typified by your niave statement last night, Mrs. Clinton, is over.

Barrack Obama is tapping into the feeling that pervades this country, the feeling that we are all of ONE NATION, FOR THE PEOPLE, not "for the politicians". Beyond that, I can think of others who have been much more willing to "take on the right" than you have, not least of which is Barry Obama.

MRS. CLINTON, YOU HAVEN’T BEEN TAKING ON THE RIGHT. You haven’t been speaking up in Congress, you’ve been safely hiding...

You blindly voted for a Right sponsored disaster of a war and have never apologized for your mistake.

You stand by and say nothing as others call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney as they break law after law and craft bigger lie after lie to cover it.

While the American Constitution goes the way of a bald eagle in a bathtub full of DDT you say less than others in an effort to protect your meaningless status.

Did I hear you speak up when Habius Corpus was reversed and when anyone’s rights where stripped away merely by the “accusation” of being a terrorist?
When Nancy Pelosi was arguing that point, or the point warrartless wiretapping was illegal where you there beside her on C-SPAN?

The two “girls” in action?

Nope. Even John McCain spoke far more memorably about it than whatever sound bite you espoused at the time.

When it was revealed that Alberto Gonzalez had tried to coerce John Ashcroft into signing an illegal surviellence program on possibly his deathbed were you speaking out in outrage like John Webb or Harry Reid or even Joe Biden?

Were you even half as outspoken as Arlen Spector for cryin out loud, when he said that he’s lost all crediblity in our Attorney General? Or when he found out that an attorney in his own office authorized provisions of the Patriot Act that give the President absolute sole authority, totally bypassing your own Congress, to decide arbitrarily who should be a U.S. Attorney?

When it became known that the U.S. is outsourcing it’s interrogations of POWs and suspected terrorists to countries in the former Soviet Union, Syria and Cuba, were you there besides the dozens of other Senators that loudly proclaimed it’s unconstitutionality?

Where you beside President Jimmy Carter a few months ago when he called George W. Bush the worst President in history?
Or when he wrote two scathing books on the effects of the current administration? Was your book as decisive and harsh to the right?

If it was, I can't remember the chapter.

I think you were complaining somewhat about Bush, but it was not quite as loud, not quite as up front as Mr. Carter or the others, was it?

Why? Because it's not presidential enough?

Did you personally try and block the vote that 14 of your fellow democrats signed last Friday that made Bush’s illegal spying on Americans over the last six years legal, even despite the total unconstitutionality of the law?

Nope.

Somehow, I doubt you’re our girl, Mrs. Clinton. I think you’d be okay, maybe not as bad.

Not bad ain’t enough. Shame on you for pandering to the audience and making yourself into a progressive.
YOU ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE, you are REACTIVE.

If any infrastructure needs a major overhaul, it’s that of the U.S. Government, starting with yourself.

Obama ‘08.

At least the man still has his integrity and I believe what his ads say. His message hasn’t had time to be as corrupted as yours has been ma’am.

Thank God he’s running now, instead of waiting another 10 years to become as cautious as you have become.

This "explanation" is beyong hilarious. There are so many more contradictions that will be forthcoming from Hillary...just watch.

Was she having a baby or did she say can't?

Unless there's a drastic change in world affairs and someone like Russia or China is pointing their nukes at us, there's no reason to even consider using them, especially when the regions in question (Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan) have civilians everywhere.

Hillary should have agreed with Obama on this one, especially considering her previous comments.

hilary has shown me, through all the debates i've watched, that she will say anything to get elected. this contradiction is no surprise, and i'm glad that CNN is actually reporting this, instead of all the obama slander they've been posting.

What did you expect here? That she will say "Sorry it was a mistake to accuse senator Obama for something I too am guilty of”? This is one of those cases where voters would have to look at the facts and judge for themselves whether or not a potential president is already persistently lying to the American people and making no apologies even before she’s nominated. Imagine what she’ll do if she enters the Oval Office.

These people are good at it and even the press cannot stop them. Only the American people can, with the one thing that they desperately need- our vote.

Senator Obama was not asked a broad hypothetical. Check the AP transcript for yourselves. As CNN mentioned, the question was specific on using nuclear weapons against terror suspects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Senator Clinton is a glaring hypocrite and in this case, she's looking for an escape route as always. Here's the transcript of her interview:

HUNT: Senator, you sit in the Armed Services Committee. There were reports this weekend, the "Washington Post" and elsewhere, that the United States is considering a military option against Iran if it won't relinquish any ambitions to nuclear weapons. The "New Yorker" even said that we're considering using nuclear – tactical nuclear weapons. Should those options be on the table when it comes to Iran?

CLINTON: Well, I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I [Hillary clinton] would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table. And this administration has been very willing to talk about using nuclear weapons in a way we haven't seen since the dawn of a nuclear age.

spell check?

This is one of those cases where Americans would have to look at the facts and judge for themselves whether or not a potential president is persistently lieing to them and making no apologies even before she became president. Unlike Edwards and Dood, She made no apologies for authorizing a war that has caused hundreds of widows and orphans, billions of dollars and our reputation abroad (she blamed George Bush) and she arrogantly and unapollogetical said she would continue to take money from lobbyists. How sick can America get?

Sounds a little like 'ole Slick Willy to me.

NOT going to fall for that one again are we?