As Ben-Peter Terpstra says in his article "The First Congresswoman", Rankin's character traits are much preferred over Hillary's phony accomplishments. Ben does however, gloss over her "anti-WW I" views and her later "anti-WW II views," if one could call them that. Based upon her principles, she voted against American participation in WW I. This may have been the right thing to do at the time, especially since information flow wasn't what it is today, but I don't happen to think that anyone's hindsight analysis that we wasted lives and resources to fight the war is justification for Rankin's vote. Any war could be judged in that light to posit any number of reasons that a war was no good. Today's Congress seems to have Rankin's modus operandi down pat when it comes to members' "buyers remorse" over the Iraq campaign, while simultaneously threatening to defund it in order to secure our surrender.For Rankin, though, it gets trickier about 24...(Read Full Post)