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Jumping on that issue, reminding voters of that war and peace issue, testing whether or not that war issue will still be kryptonite for her politically the way it was in the past, giving her that chance which she took to try to put that issue to rest and to try to turn it to her advantage finally, well, thank you, lincoln chafee. putting the war back into our national politics in the way you did. because honestly, without you, lincoln chafee, i m not sure the war issue would be in our national politics right now. and it turns out we really need it to be in our national politics right now because this is what happened today. to the american people, i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware, i do not support the idea of endless war, and i have repeatedly argued against marching into open-ended military conflicts that do not serve our core security ....
Thank you, lincoln chafee. putting the war back into our national politics in the way you did. because honestly, without you, lincoln chafee, i m not sure the war issue would be in our national politics right now. and it turns out we really need it to be in our national politics right now because this is what happened today. to the american people, i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware, i do not support the idea of endless war, and i have repeatedly argued against marching into open-ended military conflicts that do not serve our core security interests. yet given what s at stake in afghanistan and the opportunity for a stable and committed ally that can partner with us in preventing the emergence of future threats and the fact that ....
Brought democratic voters in that audience to their feet, cheering for her on that answer. so lincoln chafee of all people jumping on that issue, reminding voters of that war and peace issue, testing whether or not that war issue will still be kryptonite for her politically the way it was in the past, giving her that chance which she took to try to put that issue to rest and to try to turn it to her advantage finally, well, thank you, lincoln chafee. putting the war back into our national politics in the way you did. because honestly, without you, lincoln chafee, i m not sure the war issue would be in our national politics right now. and it turns out we really need it to be in our national politics right now because this is what happened today. to the american people, i know that many of you have grown weary of this conflict. as you are well aware, i do not support the idea of endless war, ....
Because you can work together and find out what you agree on. i think the war issue is a great issue that and you know, the federal reserve has been something. i had tremendous support from democrats, i had 320 members of congress sign on to that bill. so that is what i think is important. but i didn t have to compromise my principles. as a sitting member of congress, given the anger out there, obviously you have a lot of support among and sort of, you know, a lot of credit among tea party activists. but do you think some republican congress people are concerned about being seen as too moderate, as being seen as being too willing to compromise? by the tea party people, you mean? yeah. yeah, i think that s it, but i just think that we re moving in the right direction. i think the most magnificent thing that this revolution is going on and the people have discovered it, and they re not blaming the average citizen, they re blaming washington. that s why republicans and democrats ....
To it. so i think we need somebody to stand up and say we need a new idea. i like the idea of progressives and libertarians and conservative constitutionalists getting together and starting talking about civil liberties and this war issue, because this is bankrupting our country. and i ll tell you politically it s much easier to sell spending a little bit less overseas. why are we building an embassy in london, now over a billion dollars. london? why do we have a fortress there? we have a fortress in baghdad, a fortress in kabul. it makes no sense whatsoever. and i think there can be a coalition. to me that would be a very good bipartisan coalition. but it would be principled people on the libertarian conservative right and principled people on the progressive left. well, i m a principled person on the progressive left, as andrea can tell you, governor. and i get accused a lot as a woman of being just jealous of sarah palin. let me say i do want that stevie nicks outfit she was weari ....