not much of a favor on the front page
Posted on 12/26/2007 12:01:28 PM PST by neverdem
As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.
But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
And during one of President Bill Clinton’s major tests on terrorism, whether to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998, Mrs. Clinton was barely speaking to her husband, let alone advising him, as the Lewinsky scandal sizzled.
In seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton lays claim to two traits nearly every day: strength and experience. But as the junior senator from New York, she has few significant legislative accomplishments to her name. She has cast herself, instead, as a first lady like no other: a full partner to her husband in his administration, and, she says, all the stronger and more experienced for her “eight years with a front-row seat on history.”
Her rivals scoff at the idea that her background gives her any special qualifications for the presidency. Senator Barack Obama has especially questioned “what experiences she’s claiming” as first lady, noting that the job is not the same as being a cabinet member, much less president.
And late last week, Mr. Obama suggested that more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration were supporting his candidacy than hers...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
But you get Bill too if you vote for her.
And the NYT knows this because the Wicked Witch told them.
Give me a break with this crap
It was more like this
BJ CLINTON to Air Force: "Just bomb anything, I don't care where it is, get me out of the cross hairs!"
Being married to someone does not qualify anyone for anything.
Period.
To be fair, she did about as much as her husband did to further national security and social equality. She, like he, did zip, nada, zero! While in the White House, she and the serial adulterer merely feathered their own nests.
if being first lady counts as experience to being president, then i have experience in being a mom.
Given where this story appeared, those little splashing sounds must be inkstained rodents backstroking furiously away from the S.S. Shelob.
Bingo.
And by that same token, I can play lead guitar.
I’m a great shortstop.
Obviously, she didn't need it because they just took the FBI files anyway...Rules and laws are for suckers like you and me, not BJ and Hillary.
‘one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.’
I’m sorry, but would this behavior be even remotely tolerated in a man? How can anyone imagine she has the fortitude for the Presidency?
Then after 34 years of marriage, I make a great mother...come to think, I have been called a mother before ...I can’t remember if “great” preceded the word mother.
I’m sure Hillary would be comfortable with you operating on her husband.
Billy Dale.....
Her most direct White House experiences, pilfering the silver ware, berating the staff, lying about billing records and covering up for Bill’s philandering ...great resume Hillary.
DICK MORRIS’ ‘08 PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS!
BILL CLINTON LEAVES TRUTH OUT OF HILLARY’S BIOGRAPHY
Go to www.hillaryclinton.com and check
out Bill Clinton’s syrupy five minute ad for Hillary. He introduces the
commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not know
about Hillary’s background. His version of her biography is about as
reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!
So, I wanted to make a few corrections;
Bill says: Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did
want to work at public service.
The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another term
as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he
didn’t. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances
of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn’t win because people
would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his
wounds after losing for president. So she didn’t run. Bill did and
won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as
opposed to service, long ago.
Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.
The facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school
was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a
law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations
and develop grounds for appeal.
Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s
rights project for poor kids.
The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the
California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the
Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship
with him.
Bill says: Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she
turned down all the lucrative job offers.
The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the Arkansas
bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the
University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was
already teaching there. She only joined the prestigious Rose Law Firm
after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was
elected governor.
Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services
Board of Directors and she became its chairman.
The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for
Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary became chairman
in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be
chairman.
Bill says: She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.
The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned
by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a substantial
fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
Bill says: Hillary didn’t succeed at getting health care for all
Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
children with health insurance.
The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was
included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
Leader Senator Trent Lott. I helped to negotiate the deal. The money
came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’
tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of
funds.
Bill says: Hillary was the face of America all over the world
The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town
so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was
running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and
symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them
Bill says: Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for
children’s and women’s issues.
The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing
the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four
substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto
Rico. A second provided respite care for family members helping their
relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine
bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the
entire NY delegation.
Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary
Clinton. She has done everything possible to weaken the President
and our country when it comes to the war on terror.
!. She wants to close GITMO & move the combatants to the USA where
they would have access to our legal system.
2. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qeada phone
calls to/from the USA.
3. She wants to grants constitutional rights to enemy combatants
captured on the battlefield.
4. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between
suspected Al Qeada cells &
supporters In the USA.
5. She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by
the military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning
known terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
I can’t think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single
comment she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in
the War on Terror. But, I can think of a lot of comments she has
made that weakens our country & makes it a more dangerous situation
for all of us........She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too
many issues where common sense is abandoned. She is a disaster for
all Americans.
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