Posted on 08/27/2015 9:39:16 AM PDT by maggief
Hillary Clinton bashed her Republican presidential rivals and compared their views on women’s issues to those of “terrorist groups.”
“Extreme views about women, we expect them from some of the terrorist groups, we expect that from people who don’t want to live in the modern world,” she said Thursday during a rally in Cleveland. “It’s a little hard to take coming from Republicans who want to be the president of the United States, but they espouse out-of-date and out-of-touch policies. They are dead wrong for 21st century America.”
She also criticized some of her main GOP rivals for their stances on abortion and funding for women’s healthcare programs.
Clinton specifically mentioned Sen. Marco Rubio’s (R-Fla.) position to limit abortions even in cases of rape and incest, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s support of defunding Planned Parenthood after the release of controversial videos that were filmed undercover, and Gov. John Kasich’s (R-Ohio) decision to limit funding for rape crisis centers that refer patients to abortion providers.
“I would like these Republican candidates to look a mom in the eye who caught her breast cancer early because she was able to get a screening for cancer, or a teenager who didn’t get pregnant because she had access to contraception,” she said.
Republicans immediately pounced on the comments, with the Republican National Committee calling for an apology.
“For Hillary Clinton to equate her political opponents to terrorists is a new low for her flailing campaign. She should apologize immediately for her inflammatory rhetoric,” RNC national press secretary Allison Moore said in a statement.
Clinton reiterated her push for increased gun control during the speech, one day after two Virginia television employees were shot and killed on live television.
“I don’t know how we keep seeing shooting after shooting, keep reading about people murdered because they went to Bible study, or they went to the movies, or they were just doing their jobs and not finally say, ‘We can do something about this,’” she said, noting the death of Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old from Ohio killed when a police officer shot him.
“We have a majority of Americans and a majority of gun owners that support universal background checks in America and I strongly believe we’ve got to have common sense reforms to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals, the violently unstable, domestic abusers, and even terrorists who find it pretty easy to get a hold of a weapon in our country if they so choose.”
She also put some separation between herself and the Obama and Clinton White Houses.
“I'm not running for my husband's third term, and I'm not running for President Obama's third term. I'm running for my 1st term,” she said.
While it’s not the first time she’s used that line, it comes during Vice President Biden’s consideration of his own presidential run. Biden characterized the 2016 presidential race as a battle to continue President Obama’s legacy during a February speech in Iowa.
Clinton appeared at the rally with former Gov. Ted Strickland (Ohio), who is now running to unseat Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio) in what’s expected to be one of the tightest Senate races of 2016. While she didn’t endorse Strickland outright, she offered strong praise for her “friend.”
“Nobody cares more deeply and profoundly about what happens to people,” Clinton said of Strickland.
“He did a great job as your governor and he will be an important voice in the Senate. I hope you will do everything that you can to help ted get elected to the United States Senate.”
Paula Jones, Kathleen Willey, Juanita Broadrrick, unable to comment.
Its easy to equate Hillary’s treatment of emails as criminal
Yet Trump, Cruz, and Carson are “extreme”.
LOL....she is going down. Reminds me of McGovern who lashed out at Nixon “ A monster, and a barbarian”, as he went down in flames.
Calling half the country terrorists is a great way to promote unity.
The desperation is setting in.
Look for her to become more shrill as time goes by.
I reached my limit long ago with the stupidity of the American people and complicit press who let these people, in both parties, get away with these kind of statements and never calling them out.
60,000,000 unborn children have been brutally an heinously murdered in the name of "womens rights."
How many more must die, Hillary?
Hillary - “I’m trying to change the subject, cuz otherwise you’ll ask me about that %$#@ing server again”
man, you are good. LOL
You have no right to comment on womyn's issues when you enabled your serial philanderer of a husband to do what he does.
Hillary Rodham...what a sweet talker she is./s
Thank you very much!
It’s likely to get a lot worse. I think the evil suck bags will think of worse names than that. I wonder if those dirt bags know where the sun don’t shine?
Do those around you a favor, Hillary, and take a bath.
Thought she loved terrorists like the Mooselimb Brotherhood and Hamas. Is she complimenting Repubs?
Pray America is waking
I would like to call attention to this greedy corrupt JabbatheHut female maggot calling 1/2 of Americans, with political views in opposition to her own self serving quest for personal power, as “terrorists”
and the overall quality of our political leadership
By comparing them to what America once had, remembering this day in history. when several of my ancestors put their lives on the line in service under General George Washington
August 27th, 1776
The Battle of Long Island
“August 27, 1776, brought one of the largest battles of the Revolutionary War, the Battle of Long Island, involving more than 40,000 men. It was not a good outcome for the Patriots. Marching through the night, the British took the Americans by surprise and overwhelmed most of their lines.
George Washington, watching the enemy cut down his men, cried out, “Good God, what brave fellows I must this day lose!”
Only grim resistance by Maryland and Delaware troops avoided a complete rout. “If a good bleeding can bring those Bible-faced Yankees to their senses, the fever of independency should soon abate,” one British officer predicted. “
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