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Clinton claims she has real experience
UPI ^ | Dec. 30, 2007 | UPI

Posted on 12/30/2007 5:28:51 PM PST by mdittmar

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Sunday brushed aside assertions she only has sidelines experience, not game experience, in facing presidential issues.

Speaking on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the presidential hopeful said the criticism emanating from the rival campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. -- that her years as first lady while her husband was president are irrelevant -- is to be expected in the final run-up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.

"But I think the reality and the evidence is far different," she said. "I was intimately involved in so much that went on in the White House, here at home, and around the world."

As an example, she pointed out she went to China to push for women's rights.

"When I went to Beijing, I wasn't a witness. I was a spokesperson and proud to be for the proposition that women's rights are human rights, and that cascaded across the world," she said.

Clinton acknowledged she didn't sit in on National Security Council meetings.

"But I had direct access to all of the decision-makers," she said. "I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information."


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: chinagate; chung; hillary; huang; lippogroup; lippopacific; loral; normanhsu; peterpaul; sisterping; trie

1 posted on 12/30/2007 5:28:52 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

if she had real experience then this wouldn’t be an issue ... the more she tries to explain it away, the more it sticks to her


2 posted on 12/30/2007 5:30:41 PM PST by InvisibleChurch ("200 percent inspection is less reliable than 100 percent inspection,")
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To: mdittmar

screams of desperation......wave all, Hillary’s folk are here reading about her.....


3 posted on 12/30/2007 5:30:47 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: mdittmar

Yep she does. In -—

Plotting
Scheming
Corruption
Lying
Bullying
Stealing
Destroying
Degrading
Obscenities
etc.


4 posted on 12/30/2007 5:31:10 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: mdittmar
"I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information."

So who violated the law by providing her with classified information?

5 posted on 12/30/2007 5:32:55 PM PST by Hoodat (Ask Ted Kennedy his views on waterboarding.)
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To: mdittmar

Dear mirkwood,

The Bush Administration is trying to cover its tracks - and it’s up to our Democratic Majority in Congress to stop them.

The Administration wants us to pass a law to grant immunity to any phone company that participated in President Bush’s secret domestic spying program.

The CIA now admits it destroyed video tapes showing agents using torture to interrogate suspects. Torture is illegal, and covering it up is a crime too.

It’s obvious this Administration thinks it’s a law unto itself. They don’t trust the American people with the truth. That’s unacceptable. Demand the truth from President

President Bush doesn’t accept the rule of law, and apparently the phone companies don’t either. With their help, the Bush Administration secretly spied on Americans for years, without any court orders or oversight. Now the president wants Congress to grant retroactive immunity to companies that broke the law at his bidding.

President Bush claims that American lives will be lost unless Congress changes FISA. He also says he’ll veto any legislation changing FISA unless it includes immunity for the phone companies.

So if we take the President at his word, he’s willing to sacrifice American lives to protect phone companies! Who’s next? The private contractors they’ve let run amok in Iraq? The airlines they use to take suspects to other countries where torture is legal?

Enough is enough is enough is enough. Tell President Bush our laws apply to him too - and anyone who helps the Administration violate them:

President Bush’s secret domestic spying program showed nothing but contempt for existing law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the bipartisan law that Congress passed and President Carter signed 29 years ago.

As Jack Goldsmith, who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2003 and 2004, recently said:

“Top officials in the Administration dealt with FISA the way they dealt with other laws they didn’t like: they blew through them in secret based on flimsy legal opinions that they guarded closely so no one could question the legal basis of the operations.”

The Bush Administration has no respect for the rule of law. Is it any surprise that he and his administration have lost the trust of the American people?

From illegal spying intelligence to willful destruction of evidence, I refuse to give this president any benefit of the doubt. Stand with me:
Thank you for your support.

Sincerely,

Senator Edward M. Kennedy


6 posted on 12/30/2007 5:33:34 PM PST by mirkwood
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To: SandRat

do you have to sugar-coat it?


7 posted on 12/30/2007 5:34:06 PM PST by ripley
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To: mdittmar
"I was intimately involved in so much that went on in the White House, here
at home, and around the world."

Yep.
She knew everything that went on.
She was so included and aware.

8 posted on 12/30/2007 5:34:43 PM PST by Bon mots
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To: mdittmar
so...

The liar lied?

Next thing we'll see...

The cheaters cheat.

Anyone who is even partially honest and is not mentally challenged HAS to admit that these clintons are liars and cheats.

9 posted on 12/30/2007 5:35:17 PM PST by bannie
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To: mdittmar

real bad....


10 posted on 12/30/2007 5:35:40 PM PST by Always Right
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To: mdittmar
"I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information."

Since she didn't have a security clearance, is it too late to hang someone's a** for giving her access to classified information? What is the statute of limitations on that?

11 posted on 12/30/2007 5:36:23 PM PST by varon (Allegiance to the constitution, always. Allegiance to a political party, never.)
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To: ripley

Well I did leave out her experience in using Foul Language. lol


12 posted on 12/30/2007 5:37:31 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: mdittmar

I’m sure her aides, publicists, and financers do, anyway.


13 posted on 12/30/2007 5:38:04 PM PST by dr_who_2
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To: Hoodat

pillow talk?,wonder what monica knows?


14 posted on 12/30/2007 5:42:47 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free (Duncan Hunter '08')
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To: SandRat
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"Hillary does have a lot of experience with ashtrays and lamps... See."

15 posted on 12/30/2007 5:49:25 PM PST by Cobra64 (www.BulletBras.net)
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To: advertising guy
"Speaking on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the presidential hopeful said the criticism emanating from the rival campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. -- "

Uh, doesn't anyone in the media see a wee bit of a conflict of interest with her husband's freakin' press secretary interviewing Hillary? Imagine Nancy Reagan running for president being interviewed on ABC's Lyn Nofziger Show.

16 posted on 12/30/2007 5:51:34 PM PST by boop (Democracy is the theory that the people get the government they deserve, good and hard.)
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To: mdittmar


17 posted on 12/30/2007 5:53:26 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: mdittmar

18 posted on 12/30/2007 5:54:59 PM PST by Bean Counter (Stout Hearts...)
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To: mdittmar
I don't know who is advising her to push her "experience".

Since she has none, and since it is increasingly obvious that she is lying every time she claims it, it would be better if she dropped the lie.

But she can't. I wonder why?

19 posted on 12/30/2007 5:57:56 PM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: mdittmar

“”But I had direct access to all of the decision-makers,” she said. “I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information.””

She should be in jail for that.


20 posted on 12/30/2007 6:01:27 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Hunter Thompson in 08.)
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To: InvisibleChurch

She does. She has really bad experience.


21 posted on 12/30/2007 6:05:23 PM PST by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: mdittmar


"You asked about my experience?

I inhaled it."

.


22 posted on 12/30/2007 6:06:30 PM PST by OESY
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To: mdittmar

Uh, Hillary, Monica Lewinsky had more intimate involvement with your husbands useless administration than you ever did.


23 posted on 12/30/2007 6:07:57 PM PST by indylindy (Duncan Hunter is the best hope we have on both fronts.)
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To: MurryMom
Clinton claims she has real experience

With what? Amnesia? Cover-ups? Taking Chicom loot? FBI files? The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? Moanica? The travel office? Cattle futures? Giving birth?

24 posted on 12/30/2007 6:08:10 PM PST by Libloather (Hillary donors find their way to the cover of Time. And the very next day they're doing it...)
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To: mdittmar


"All aboard! ... Hillary's train is leaving the station."

.


25 posted on 12/30/2007 6:09:38 PM PST by OESY
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To: devolve; ntnychik; PhilDragoo; dixiechick2000; MeekOneGOP; FARS; mdittmar

26 posted on 12/30/2007 6:10:32 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: Bon mots

That’s just mean spirited,she said it was a right wing conspiracy.


27 posted on 12/30/2007 6:13:52 PM PST by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served,to keep us free (Duncan Hunter '08')
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To: mdittmar

As Allison said on F&F the other morning... you have to give it to Hillary, about experience in the White House. she does know where most of the bathrooms are.


28 posted on 12/30/2007 6:14:21 PM PST by OBXWanderer (dontvoteincumbent.com)
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To: mdittmar
REAL experience in:
    -looking the other way while spouse boinks every woman in sight
    -making a disaster of national health care
    -intimidating underlings forbidding them to make eye contact
    -touring the world with large entourages of friends
    -hiding the law firm billing records
    -firing the travel staff
    -raiding the office of murdered staff
    -making a bundle on cattle futures contracts
    -kissing terrorists
    -insulting cookie baking moms
    -stealing the White House silver
    -getting friends to decorate their new houses

Feel free to add to my list....it is by NO means complete.

29 posted on 12/30/2007 6:15:52 PM PST by tioga (Happy New Year!)
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To: boop

actually yes, the old ink and pen papers are done

as news sources anyway because of you. Because of me
and millions who look just like us owning our news from
Rush, FRepublic,Drudge, talk radio and e-mail.

if I was in charge of Fred Dalton Thompson, he would win the election with 49% but better, the dem loser would only get 39%.........


30 posted on 12/30/2007 6:16:28 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: mdittmar
If hanging around the Oval Office while Bubba was Prez is what she calls "experience" then the dems might as well nominate Monica. She was certainly "closer" to Bubba than Her Hideousness ever was during those awful 8 years.

The truth is, she has never been successful at anything on her own. She'd still be just the homliest woman to ever graduate from Yale were it not for her husband. Her only experience is in holding onto the coattail of a philandering husband. The only thing she has ever produced is Chelsea and even that wouldn't have happened without Bubba's help.

31 posted on 12/30/2007 6:16:46 PM PST by Darlin' (oh.... phooey.... lost my tagline.... again)
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To: mdittmar

Her Thighness DOES have the experience as the late Barb Olsen knew; “Eveything leads back to Hillary!” She’s just not able to brag about it. But she does let it slip out every once in a while, as in the classified info remark.


32 posted on 12/30/2007 6:29:21 PM PST by RanchPig
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To: SandRat

and hurling ashtrays.


33 posted on 12/30/2007 6:34:11 PM PST by Panzerlied ("We shall never surrender!")
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To: mdittmar

Did she have a Q-clearance? IF not, the Bent One broke the law informing the witch. If she knew anything about security matters WITHOUT that clearance, she has committed a felony and so has the Bent one, again. I believe.


34 posted on 12/30/2007 6:46:19 PM PST by Pistolshot (Never argue with stupid people, they just bring you down to their level and beat you with experience)
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To: mdittmar
"I was intimately involved in so much that went on in the White House,
here at home, and around the world."

She watches the History channel?


I was intimately involved in so much that went on in the White House

She was in the closet with Monica and BJ?

35 posted on 12/30/2007 6:55:21 PM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: mdittmar

http://www.opm.gov/extra/investigate/eo12968.asp


36 posted on 12/30/2007 7:13:37 PM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping that it will eat him last..)
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To: mdittmar

If she didn’t have a clearance (which is a fact as far as I know), then she collaborated with the info giver in a criminal act.


37 posted on 12/30/2007 8:34:33 PM PST by Rembrandt (We would have won Viet Nam w/o Dim interference.)
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To: MaxMax
She was in the closet with Monica and BJ?

Menage a trios...uggghhhh

The mental picture is enough to move me to the Johnnie Walker Black.

Shame on you Max, it's after midnight and I know I'll have to pass out 'cause I won't be able to get a normal sleep going tonight.

38 posted on 12/30/2007 9:17:43 PM PST by USS Alaska (Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
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To: USS Alaska
The mental picture is enough to move me to the Johnnie Walker Black.


Bad mental picture.

I used to love J-black. Now I drink Glenmorangie "Port Wood Finish" to relax.

/Salute and God Bless

39 posted on 12/30/2007 10:48:33 PM PST by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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To: Bon mots

40 posted on 12/31/2007 3:51:14 AM PST by Diogenesis (Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum)
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