Hillary the hawk

This morning I spent a good deal of time crafting an anti-Hillary post which, after a second thought or third, ended up in my virtual trash bin. The post, playing off this Newsweek article, painted Hillary as a purely political animal willing to sacrifice the good of the people for her own political gain. It was harsh and I trashed it with the idea that maybe Hillary deserved the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she's not the self-serving hawk who thought George Bush could be trusted with a vote for war.

That was this morning, tonight things have changed.

Tonight on Hardball I watched a Hillary surrogate, Representative Joe Sestak (D-PA), defend Hillary's votes on Iraq and Iran and my moment of morning goodwill went out the window.

She was "absolutely right" to open the door for war with Iran and she was "absolutely right" to authorize actual war with Iraq, Sestak lectured the unwashed masses. She is "one of the few" who "understands the processes of Washington." You see, Hillary understands that our military "cannot be be used recklessly, nor can it be hoarded like misers' gold, if it is to be a course for peace and progress. That is the judgment that she has garnered from her time in the White House."

Military might is not to be "hoarded" and can be used to chart a course for "peace and progress." Sounds very neo-conservative to me. In selling Hillary, Sestak managed to remind me why I cannot in good conscious support her. Maybe in the morning I'll feel different again. Or, maybe not.