The most frustrating -- infuriating -- thing about Hillary is her stubborn refusal to admit when she is wrong or to take good advice from people whom she should see as allies.
It shows what a terrible president she would be.
Her stubborn refusal to drop out of the race despite every sensible person pointing out that it is impossible for her to win is just the latest example.
But it fits a pattern:
Consider the gas tax holiday. After every economist in the world has said it's a stupid idea, she still won't back away from it.
But the prime example is Hillary's vote for the Iraq war:
Hillary likes to claim now that she had no reason to doubt what Bush and Cheney were telling her about Iraq in 2002, and that she had no idea that voting for the Iraq War Resolution would encourage Bush to go to war. She refuses to admit that her vote was a mistake.
Here's her response from a question from a voter during the New Hampshire primary. This is from an MSNBC story:
But that wasn't enough for Claire Helfman, a retired nurse who attended a Nashua house party to meet Clinton.
"I've heard your explanation for your vote: 'I didn't think I was voting for the war, I was voting for inspections.' It doesn't fly. It just doesn't fly," Helfman told Clinton.
The New York senator repeated her long-standing mantra - "If we knew then what we know now, I would never have voted to give this president the authority." And she again batted down calls for her to describe her vote as a mistake.
"I'm sorry, what I say is what I believe," she said. "I understand that some people disagree or think it's not adequate, but it's what I believe."
So she "understands" now that people disagree, but she still refuses to admit she was wrong. Infuriating!
But the point is that literally millions of people all across the world realized at the time of her vote that she was wrong, but she refused to listen. Why did she ignore all of us?
Remember, it became clear to everyone with any sense from mid-2002 to early 2003 that Bush and Cheney were taking us to war with Iraq, and that they were lying about the reasons why.
The British government knew. Britain's famous Downing Street Memo was written after a meeting in July 2002 between British intelligence officers and Bush/Cheney administration officials. The memo's famous conclusion:
"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
The CIA knew, thanks to Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame. Wilson conducted his investigation for the CIA into alleged sales of yellowcake uranium to Iraq in 2002, and concluded that it never happened and that Bush and Cheny were exaggerating the threat of Iraq to take the country to war.
And literally billions of regular people knew. On Feb. 15, 2003, there were massive demonstrations all over the world against the war. Here's a reminder from Wikipedia:
The February 15, 2003 anti-war protest was a coordinated day of protests across the world against the imminent invasion of Iraq. Millions of people protested in approximately 800 cities around the world. According to BBC News, between six and ten million people took part in protests in up to sixty countries over the weekend of the 15th and 16th; other estimates range from eight million to thirty million. The biggest protests took place in Europe. The protest in Rome involved around 3 million people, and is listed in the 2004 Guinness Book of World Records as the largest anti-war rally in history.
Hillary listened to none of us. She ignored us all. She voted for the war because she wanted conservatives to think that she was patriotic and a hawk. So that made it OK to ignore all of her real allies.
And she did a similar thing with her stupid anti-flag-burning law. All progressives were against it, but she went ahead anyway, trying again to suck up to conservatives.
Sheesh!
She is stubbornly wrong too often, and she refuses to listen to reason. That's why she can't be president, and also why she won't drop out of race.
Yuck.