ABC's
Roberts: "Disaster" for party if Democrats nominate candidate who agrees with
Americans on Iraq
On ABC's This Week, Cokie Roberts asserted
that it would be "a disaster for the Democratic Party" and would lead to "chaos"
if businessman Ned Lamont were to defeat Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the
Connecticut Democratic Senate primary on August 8, thereby "pushing the party to
the left" and sending a message to other senators that "[t]he only smart thing
to do here is play to your base." However, as Sam Donaldson noted, opposition to
the war is not simply playing to the base, "it's playing to the country," since
the majority of the American public opposes the war in Iraq. Read
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Media
outlets suggested Sen. Clinton's critique of Rumsfeld was motivated purely by
politics
Several news outlets portrayed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's
harsh criticism of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld as a purely political
maneuver to "find the exact middle" in the Democratic Party or to position
herself for a potential 2008 presidential run. Read
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