Left-Wing Magazine Blasts Hillary

The country's leading left-wing publication, The Nation, has turned on liberal darling Hillary Clinton in a scathing article headlined "Hillary's Hypocrisy."

The article by Robert Scheer begins: "How do you triangulate among death, hypocrisy and stupidity? Not at all logically, which is why Hillary Clinton's dissembling on Iraq has become a fatal embarrassment, not only for her, but for anyone who hopes she can provide progressive leadership for the nation.

"If she still has not found the courage to reverse course on this disastrous war, why assume that as president she would behave any differently?"

Scheer writes that it is "unconscionable" that many who oppose the war in Iraq prefer Clinton to potential 2008 presidential rivals John Kerry, John Edwards, Al Gore, and Russ Feingold, who have all called for the U.S. to extricate itself from the conflict.

The Nation article cites Clinton's recent statement that she doesn't think it is "smart strategy to set a date certain" for withdrawing from Iraq. "I do not agree that that is in the best interests."

Scheer writes: "Clinton needs to stop prattling on about getting the Iraqi government to do this or that wonderful thing before we can pull out."

He concludes that Hillary's supporters "are eager to win back at least one branch of Congress in the midterm election in order to revitalize our Constitution's bedrock system of checks and balances and are looking to Clinton to help get them there.

"But what check or balance is Sen. Clinton presenting on the most pressing issue of the day? None."