[Note: this diary is cross posted on MyDD under my handle there, "NewHavenDave"]
Up until this morning, I -- an Obama supporter -- had grumbled about Clinton's kitchen sink, mudslinging strategy, but had steadfastly vowed that if it worked and she somehow got the nomination, I would still support her in November.
No longer.
If Clinton "wins", her reckless and genocidal nuclear deterrence policy will drive my out of the Democratic Party.
Here's the story.
And the money quote:
"I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran," Clinton said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
"In the next 10 years, during which they might foolishly consider launching an attack on Israel, we would be able to totally obliterate them," she said.
Totally obliterate them? TOTALLY OBLITERATE THEM? That is exactly the type of garbage rhetoric that leads most Americans to rightly condemn Hamas and Hezbollah. If we can't defeat them without becoming them, then it is a sorry day for America indeed.
And a sorry day for the Democratic Party, which I have supported ever since I was the only first-grader in my Michigan elementary school to support Carter over Ford in 1976.
It is possible -- likely, perhaps -- that Clinton did not really mean it -- that it is just a case of foolish pandering to her increasingly right-wing base. It may even be that "lack-of-sleep" thing again.
But if she "wins" and does not renounce this position, I'm gone. I won't suport McCain, mind you. I may have to sit out the presidential race and devote my energy and campaign donations to the senate races. But I'm sick of George W. Bush's cowboy diplomacy and I'll be damned if I vote for another 4 years of the same thing.