So Much For Centrism

Hillary Clinton has been bending over backwards trying to appear as a centrist in the eyes of the American voter, in hopes of becoming the first female president of the United States. She was doing a damn fine job at it until recently, when a memo was unearthed by the New York Sun that included this passage.

"Our opponents will do anything rather than talk about the issues. They don't want to talk about their plans to destroy Social Security, to roll back our civil and constitutional rights, to undermine American security by reducing the number of allies who will work with us around the world,"

Wow, sounds like she's got a bad case of the left-wing paranoia that has been going around lately. The Sun answers her charges:

You can criticize the Bush administration for a lot of things, but not wanting to talk about their plans for Social Security sure isn't one of them...

...Mrs. Clinton may disagree with President Bush's plans for Social Security, though she has so far failed, so far as we can tell, to offer any solution of her own to the problem of the program's long-term solvency...

As to the accusation that we are facing "roll backs" to our civil rights:

Mrs. Clinton herself voted for the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act, the law most often cited by civil liberties advocates as a violation of rights...

...Her husband the president signed, in the dead of night, the Defense of Marriage Act that denied gays and lesbians the right to federal recognition of their marriages. President Bush's cabinet includes Condoleezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales, Carlos Gutierrez, Elaine Chao, Norman Mineta, and Alphonso Jackson. Does Senator Clinton really believe - or really want her supporters to believe - that Mr. Bush wants to roll back civil rights?

My favorite part was Clinton's concern for our allies in the war on terror. Perhaps she should have expressed those concerns to John Kerry, who referred to them as "bribed and coerced." Here's what Bush had to say in regards to our allies:

"I don't think people ought to demean the contributions of our friends into Iraq. People are sacrificing their lives in Iraq, from different countries. We ought to honor that, and we ought to welcome that. I'm proud of the coalition that is there."

Remember that lovely picture of Princess Diana, with the sun shining through her skirt, that caused such a furor oh so many years ago? That's what this reminds me of.

Be careful Hil, your extremism is showing.