Because it's all about the war.
Clinton's unwillingness to pander to her own party's base on Iraq has
won her grudging respect from another unlikely source as well: William
Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard. On Aug. 7, he was quoted in the
Washington Post saying that compared with Sen. Barack Obama, who is
trying to energize the left to raise his falling poll numbers, she is
looking quite presidential.
"Obama," Kristol said, "is becoming the antiwar candidate, and Hillary
Clinton is becoming the responsible Democrat who could become commander
in chief in a post-9/11 world."
