Now Clinton has devised an elaborate campaign strategy to avoid apologizing for her vote to kill Iraqi and American children. In Dover, N.H., she told and audience:

If the most important thing to any of you is choosing someone who did not cast that vote or has said his vote was a mistake, then there are others to choose from.

Like nearly everything else she’s said since getting elected to the Senate, the words are cruel because (a) they callously disregard the consequences of her vote and (b) they assume, perhaps rightly, that American voters, Republicans and Democrats, are so brain-dead, so incapable of empathy, so brainwashed by American Idol, NPR, evangelical fervor, anti-sad drugs, and non-stop lattes and sex, that style — the pretense of caring and intelligence — is a billion times more meaningful than the notion that all life is sacred.

Hillary might avoid their fate, though we prefer she doesn’t. Her vote approving the invasion of Iraq was as cowardly as they come. With an apparent eye on the Oval Office, she not only participated in the destruction of a country that, while brutalized, was barely functioning, but also helped instigate the senseless slaughter of thousands of soldiers and civilians. Like many senators, she’s got blood on her hands.

Likewise Hillary Clinton. Outside of New York City, the good, hard-working, pious, patriotic, Jesus-loving citizens that build the Tomahawk missiles and bunker-buster bombs that have killed so many Iraqi innocents, despise Hillary Clinton with every hick breath they take. To them, she’s a libber with a secret set of brass balls. And she’s a New Yorker.

Which candidate will black king-makers get behind? According to the Post, most black KMers are either behind Hillary, or on the fence.