... and this is the woman who wants her hand on the helm of this nation!
Posted on 07/27/2005 1:37:39 PM PDT by blaylock
July 26, 2005 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Hillary Clinton phony on Defense
Hillary’s record doesn’t match Hillary’s rhetoric
Yonkers, NY: Republican U.S. Senate Candidate Mayor John Spencer, the former Mayor of Yonkers, NY today called Senator Hillary Clinton’s comments on National Defense insincere and pandering.
“Yesterday, Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton, posing as a conservative, called for a better trained and better equipped military.” said Mayor Spencer, “Unfortunately, the promises of Presidential Candidate Clinton are sharply at odds with the voting record of Senator Clinton. Perhaps if Hillary Clinton stopped voting as a knee-jerk liberal our military would be better equipped.”
”In the Senate, Hillary Clinton voted to cut defense by $1.1 billion.” (Roll Call 288, 7/17/2003).
“In the Senate, Hillary Clinton voted for a Defense Budget that slashed President Bush’s budget by $1.6 billion.” (Roll Call 163, 7/22/2004).
“While the Head of the National Nuclear Security Administration says it is vital to the security of the United States that Bunker Buster Bombs are used to destroy deep underground nuclear sites in Iran and North Korea, Senator Clinton has consistently voted to deprive the U.S. Military of this needed capability.” (Roll Call 186, 5/20/2003)
“While voting to slash our capability to destroy the budding nuclear weapons capability of Iran and North Korea, like Israel destroyed Saddam’s nuclear reactor in 1981, Senator Clinton writes articles for the press calling for action to stop rogue nations from gaining nuclear weapons. This is just plain phony and irresponsible.”
“Hillary’s record doesn’t match Hillary’s rhetoric. Hillary Clinton is not a conservative; her voting record proves her to be a leftwing anti-defense liberal. Hillary Clinton has voted to cut defense spending by billions, even after 9/11.”
“For too long Senator Clinton has been getting a free ride from the facts and in my campaign for the U.S. Senate I will hold her accountable to reality.” Spencer concluded.
Mayor John Spencer, 58, served as Mayor of the City of Yonkers from 1996 until 2004. Yonkers is the fourth largest city in New York and saw great prosperity, redevelopment and environmental cleanup under the leadership of Mayor Spencer.
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Hillary false on defense?
NO $h!t!!!!
Hillary Clinton a PHONY!? I'm shocked! Shocked, I tell you!
PHONY? Aw, tell us it ain't so!!
I doubt that will work in NY. Most NYers want less defense, more welfare.
There, fixed the headline
Good for him!
yeah.
unfortunately the only person that could possibly beat Hillary in NY is Giuliani. but he isn't running.
WASHINGTON — Former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer, a Republican who is looking to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton next year, accused her yesterday of "aiding and comforting the enemy" in the Iraq war.
In Washington to begin forming a campaign team, Spencer said Clinton's questioning of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a Senate Armed Services hearing Thursday constituted a "thinly veiled attack" on President Bush and was another example of how Democratic rhetoric on the war is dividing the country.
Clinton, a Democrat, asked Rumsfeld to repudiate White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove's remarks this week that liberals are not tough enough on America's enemies. She said the remarks, made at a Conservative Party dinner in New York City, were "insulting" and "disturbing" to people like herself who had "legitimate questions" about the administration's conduct of the war while supporting it.
Clinton voted to authorize the war but has been a frequent critic of Bush's postwar strategy.
Spencer criticized Clinton for having not spoken up about the "vitriolic rhetoric" coming from other Democrats attacking Bush and Republicans over the last year and a half.
"She says we all love our troops. But then to be silent when politicians like (Sen.) Dick Durbin, Howard Dean and Ted Kennedy and John Kerry attack the president, that's really aiding and comforting the enemy," Spencer said.
Howard Wolfson, a Clinton spokesman, said Spencer was relying on negative attacks to help launch his campaign.
"It is clear from today's press conference that the Republicans are beginning yet another campaign in which issues and positive ideas take a back seat to false, negative attacks," he said. "Instead of politicizing 9/11 and the war on terror, Mr. Spencer ought to stand with Senator Clinton in uniting against the terrorists and supporting our troops."
Spencer, who was Yonkers mayor from 1995 to 2002, is one of several Republicans said to be looking at seeking the Republican and Conservative Party nominations for the 2006 U.S. Senate race. He plans to make a statewide tour this month to speak with GOP and Conservative Party leaders.
He had planned to hold yesterday's news conference outside Clinton's office in the Senate Russell Building. But the event, which was attended by two reporters, was moved outside the building after Senate press officials told Spencer he couldn't hold it inside.
Spencer said he was particularly incensed that Clinton brought up the Vietnam War and its divisiveness while questioning Rumsfeld. Clinton said that she was old enough to remember how deeply divided the country was "and never want to see that again." But Spencer took issue, saying that as a Vietnam veteran he was "appalled that she would raise the fact that our nation was divided during Vietnam, and then proceed to divide us further today."
So Hillary is now conservative?
"The great mass of people will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one." Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), German dictator. Mein Kampf, vol. 1, ch. 10 (1925)
Zingarooski!
Where do we send money to help mayor Spencer? He's gonna need a boatload full to take on her heinous. I like what I am hearing so far!
I'm seriously beginning to think the Republicans also want less defense and more welfare. I'm involved with two Army programs, one to provide a near term upgrade to an existing system, the other to provide a more capable and versatile system which would replace 2 or 3 existing similar systems. Both are in deep trouble as far as funding for next fiscal year, which is supposed to begin in October. The reason is that the Army, and the other services too, are having to shift spending from training and R&D to beans, bullets, bombs and fuel, not to mention salaries for activated Reservists.
What if they agreed to go to war, but refused to pay for it? Well it looks like we going to find the answer to that sooner rather than later. We've got a war going, and the only time since WW-II (and somewhat before) the fraction of the GDP going to defense was lower was during the term of Billy "We loathe the Military" Clinton. Meanwhile overall federal spending as a fraction of GDP is at or near all time highs.
I liked the way he kept working that in there!!!
LOL The man has guts!
I think he should defintely make sure the NY public remembers that Hillary didn't attend any Firefighter/Police funerals post 9/11, even though Chuck Schumer at least found time.
Get Spencer out with the FDNY - get footage of Hiliary being BOOED off the stage at the FDNY memorial. Most satisfying moment of television for me EVAH!
And maybe Billy Dale can be brought on stage to remind people what that B***H does to people she considers inconvenient to her needs.
yes, phony and not smart. No way, no how. No smarts for this woman. the more she speaks the more she steps in it. Go hilllereeee, show us what we already know. Without willie you can't do anything.
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