It would not be an entirely unfair comparison to liken the ongoing Iraq occupation to Hillary Clinton’s ongoing campaign. In both situations, contrary to what many in the party have already convinced themselves, the Democrats can actually put an end to the respective debacle. Instead of simply ignoring William Kristol’s weekly Monday NYTimes op-ed like I usually do, I’m going to pretend he is David Brooks and go the hell after him. He writes today about St. John McCain and how he is telling Americans “the hard and unpopular truths that we’ll be [in Iraq] for a while…” An American occupation of Iraq will only continue if lunatics like Kristol & McCain remain in power, which is not what I would call an unpopular truth – just unpopular. Likewise, those who say that Hillary staying in the race is simply an unpopular truth are almost equally deluded. This constant stance of: “Oohh, we’re Democrats, we can’t possibly upset the status quo or people will get mad at us!” is doing nobody no kind of good.