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Hillary Clinton plays up foreign affairs experience during Iowa stump speech
New York Daily News ^ | December 21st 2007 | MICHAEL McAULIFF

Posted on 12/22/2007 8:41:53 AM PST by fweingart

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/21/2007-12-21_hillary_clinton_plays_up_foreign_affairs-1.html

Hillary Clinton Thursday hurled the dirtiest four-letter Democratic epithet to describe arch-rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards: Bush.

With another four-letter word - Iraq - fading from headlines, Clinton insisted the world is still too dangerous to trust anyone less experienced than she is.

She said choosing a candidate simply because they are more likable - a thinly veiled reference to Obama and Edwards - would repeat the 2000 mistake of electing George W. Bush, a then-Texas governor with a regular guy reputation and little foreign policy chops.

"It is tempting anytime things seem quieter for a minute on the international front to think that we don't need a President who's up to speed on foreign affairs and military matters," said Clinton, with ex-Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former Gen. Wesley Clark at her side in Iowa.

"Well, that's the kind of logic that got us George Bush in the first place," she zinged.

Clinton's iron-fisted slap on foreign policy, which aides said had been long planned, came amid a Hawkeye State blitz to sell Iowans on her sensitive side.

In New Hampshire, Obama did not directly respond to Clinton's comments, but pointed out she backed Bush with a vote to authorize the Iraq invasion while he consistently opposed the war.

And he noted her husband, Bill Clinton, endured attacks about his experience in 1992 as an upstart Arkansas governor running for the White House.

"There's always this kind of thing. But, fortunately, the American people, I think, have a different attitude. They think the experience I have is very relevant to bringing about change. That's why we're doing well," he said.

The Clinton camp also pounced on a report that Obama frequently voted "present" on controversial issues as a state senator, rolling out Reps. Anthony Weiner (D-Brooklyn/Queens) and Joseph Crowley (D-Queens/Bronx) to paint him as lacking courage to take a stand.

Obama told ABC's "Good Morning America" he often voted that way if "there was some element in the bill that was unconstitutional or had problems."

Edwards jumped on the former First Lady for a mailer sent out by a pro-Clinton independent labor group that made it appear he was attacking Obama.

His team said, "Iowans deserve better than . . . campaign flyers designed to fool them."


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Kissing Arafat's wife and riding a camel in North Africa while NATO bombs Yugoslavia doesn't count!
1 posted on 12/22/2007 8:41:54 AM PST by fweingart
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To: fweingart

Obama is a moron and Breck Girl is a fop ... but neither of them have the dark seething evil that is the hildebeast


2 posted on 12/22/2007 8:45:20 AM PST by clamper1797 (Fred Thompson - Duncan Hunter for POTUS and Vice Potus in either order)
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To: clamper1797

The Iron Pantsuit speaks.


3 posted on 12/22/2007 8:48:41 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: fweingart
What experience?
4 posted on 12/22/2007 8:50:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: fweingart
"It is tempting anytime things seem quieter for a minute on the international front to think that we don't need a President who's up to speed on foreign affairs and military matters," said Clinton, with ex-Ambassador Richard Holbrooke and former Gen. Wesley Clark at her side in Iowa.

"Well, that's the kind of logic that got us George Bush in the first place," she zinged.

Funny, that's how we got Bill Clinton.

5 posted on 12/22/2007 8:50:30 AM PST by Bernard (If you always tell the truth, you never have to remember exactly what you said.)
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To: fweingart
What experience?
6 posted on 12/22/2007 8:51:34 AM PST by BenLurkin
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To: clamper1797
They are all bankrupt in the sanity and honesty department!

I've always believed that Hillary (and Billy Goat) are certifiable nut cases.

7 posted on 12/22/2007 8:52:29 AM PST by fweingart (Life's a bitch. So why vote for one?)
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To: Bernard

Actually, W’s Father gave us Bill and it looks like W will complete the cycle by giving us Hillary.


8 posted on 12/22/2007 8:54:34 AM PST by TCats
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To: BenLurkin
What experience?.

THIS.


9 posted on 12/22/2007 8:55:13 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: clamper1797

If one of them beats the hildebeast, then we should be very afraid!


10 posted on 12/22/2007 8:55:23 AM PST by donna
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To: fweingart

Was that the same stump speech window dressing stooge known as Wesley (I order you to bomb the Russians) Clark?

Yeah that Clintanoid experience is priceless alrighty. and I hope nobody is planning on producing any aspirin in the next 8-9 years.


11 posted on 12/22/2007 8:56:02 AM PST by rod1
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To: clamper1797

I have more foreign affair experience than that stupid B—ch has and that is not much.


12 posted on 12/22/2007 8:56:05 AM PST by Piquaboy (22 year veteran of the Army, Air Force and Navy, Pray for all our military .)
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To: fweingart

Except that she has no foreign affairs experience, or any other that I can identify except her experience in shady cattle and real estate investment deals, document destruction and bimbo-eruption management. As near as I can tell, all she would bring to the Oval Office is dishonesty, a full set of bad, failed, 60s radical-style ideas and a tolerance for vice and illegal immigration.


13 posted on 12/22/2007 9:02:25 AM PST by 3AngelaD (They screwed up their own countries so bad they had to leave, and now they're here screwing up ours)
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To: fweingart
foreign policy experience:

14 posted on 12/22/2007 9:03:22 AM PST by JohnLongIsland
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To: BenLurkin

Plenty:

http://www.serendipity.li/waco.html


15 posted on 12/22/2007 9:06:53 AM PST by silentreignofheroes (I'm Southron,,,and I Vote...)
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To: fweingart
The 1993 hit on the Tower in New York was an attack on our soil. The Clinton's recognized it as a big nothing. There were no security changes implemented...and no action on the man behind it...Usama.

So much for "experience".

16 posted on 12/22/2007 9:07:26 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: fweingart

but...but... being on her knees before the great one..Oh that was Monica!


17 posted on 12/22/2007 9:08:42 AM PST by Young Werther (Julius Caesar (Quae Cum Ita Sunt. Since these things are so.))
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Hillary Clinton plays up nonexistent foreign affairs experience during Iowa stump speech
18 posted on 12/22/2007 9:09:34 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: fweingart
Suha Arafat: "Our people have been subjected to the daily intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children" and then Hillary kissed her:

THAT'S Hillary Clinton's foreign policy experience, in a nutshell.... kissing liar terrorists.

20 posted on 12/22/2007 9:18:54 AM PST by gunservative
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