Hillary: A President with "Backbone"

Yesterday, Hillary recieved the endorsement of U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey of California’s sixth Congressional District. The Congresswoman, a staunch opponent of the Iraq war, "cited Senator Clinton’s commitment to ending the war in Iraq as the top reason for her backing." Hillary also recieved another NH newspaper endorsement. This one from the Cabinet Press, "which includes four weekly newspapers with a circulation of 31,000 in nine towns across southern New Hampshire." Cabinet Press(the Milford Cabinet, Bedford Journal, Hollis Brookline Journal, and Merrimack Journal) said of Hillary, "[she] is a tough, smart, courageous, compassionate and sometimes blunt senator who will be a good president in a time that requires the kind of backbone she possesses."
The Hill said of the Woolsey endorsement:

"Presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) got a potential boost to her anti-war credentials this week when she won the endorsement of Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.), a co-founder of the Out-of-Iraq caucus and one of the vehement anti-war voices in Congress."

Woolsey, who San Jose Mercury News recently called "the unofficial matriarch of the [anti-war] movement in Congress," believes Hillary is best prepared to enact change, saying of Hillary:

"[she] is the one who can take what she says and turn it into reality once she's elected president." "I trust Hillary to end the war in Iraq, bring our troops home quickly and safely, and regain our nation’s standing around the world."

According to The Hill, "Woolsey and her fellow Out-of-Iraq caucus leaders have campaigned in the key early presidential states to raise awareness of the anti-war position." Woolsey, Co-Chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, cited Hillary's ability to enact change for Californian families in her endorsement.

Cabinet Press believes Hillary will lead us out of Iraq "safely and sanely." While they believe it a mistake that Hillary voted to support AUMF, they are skeptical of those who use this as a primary argument against her judgement, saying of Senator Obama "it is impossible to know how he would have stood had he been, at the time, a U.S. senator rather than a state senator. Perspectives changes as one rises in the power structure."

They address concerns that Hillary is too polarizing:

"There are those who believe that Sen. Clinton is polarizing but if she is, it is only because a strong person engenders strong emotions. That is not a bad thing."

Cabinet Press calls Hillary strong on four important issues; "health care, national defense, the Iraq war, and a woman's right to choose to have an abortion." They find her strong personality, and her set of experiences, assets in facing these issues:

"While it is true that Sen. Obama and former Sen. John Edwards have, in general, views that are similar to those of Sen. Clinton, particularly on what we believe should be the right of Americans to health care, we are convinced that because of her experience, her trials by fire, and her toughness, she will deliver."

They also take note of her plans to address the concerns of college students and their families as part of her greater concern for the middle class:

On a lesser known, but important point, the senator plans to have colleges pledge not to hike tuition over a students term and to increase Pell grants. For middle class families, that's important and it shows the senator's commitment to those who, while certainly not poor, surely arent rich.

Two great endorsements just days before the first in the country Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary.