Posted on 12/03/2010 7:00:29 AM PST by jim byrd
I am not a Democrat, never have been; never liked Hillary Clinton, still don't. But in one regard, she deserves respect for at least trying to protect America's interests. I find the current Democratic Party at best despicable, and at worst anti-American, with an agenda that is antithetical to what this country was founded upon. But after reading the WikiLeaks regarding the State Department and Hillary Clinton, bravo for her. Bravo for Hillary Clinton. What the WikiLeaks revealed was that she has done what should be expected from the Secretary of State regarding national security. Hopefully there were more justifiably devious exploits she employed that were not captured on paper, and hopefully they will never emerge from their cryptic resting place.
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She might see opportunity in this. Resign from Secretary of State due to Wiki and then begin running for the Democratic Nomination....people really don’t care about this Wiki thing.....most people don’t even understand it.
Hillary’s job just got much harder. The WikiLeaks dump has reduced the flow of diplomatic discourse to a trickle. Damage control is the current priority, and the barrage of embarrassing revelations seems likely to continue. The inevitable plea to “review security procedures” has been made, and the obligatory call to “bring Assange to justice” has been issued.
While gravely detrimental to America and her interests, it is also a golden opportunity for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to make the transition from State Department to exploratory committee. Here’s how she makes opportunity from this crisis:
While true that this WikiLeaks debacle is potent and far-reaching, even the most fantastic news story eventually fades from the front page. Meanwhile, Madame Secretary will have ample camera time to look presidential. The Obama administration, conversely, will try to shield the President from Assange’s outrage. As a result, in the coming weeks, Hillary will have a chance to resign somewhat gracefully while leaving President Obama with an ugly diplomatic mess for bonus points. Would she do it?
Why not? The public would not focus blame on Clinton for one important reason. Julian Assange. Assange gives Secretary Clinton a bogeyman to point to. After all, she did all she could. She said all the right things. Foreign leaders would likely praise her brand of negotiating, effectively endorsing her probable candidacy. To top it off, she would likely have amassed a compendium of unflattering diplomatic anecdotes relating to President Obama. That would be some industrial grade campaign ammunition, if there’s enough of it.
President Obama would then be left with the task of quickly filling this vital vacancy. With his approval ratings in the toilet, any choice would face intense scrutiny. Not exactly what a first-term President needs with the 2012 campaigns looming. His weakness is showing publicly as well, as polls are showing the President in a virtual tie with some presumptive republican candidates.
WikiLeaks aside, President Obama was dealt a serious political blow on November 2nd, and will likely be bloodied by an investigation-prone House Of Representatives. Even the progressive financier George Soros recently said, “...if this president can’t do what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else.” That statement reverberated far and wide through the global political spectrum.
President Obama may not be quite ready to throw in the towel, but Madame Secretary will soon be beautifully poised to deliver a knockout blow.
That's pretty much how I feel about Hillary. She is despicable and obviously wants to rule the United States as an absolute tyrant. In her defense though, Hillary wants absolute power over a strong America, where we are her servants in a powerful 1984-style totalitarian state, and that puts her way above the rest of the Dems, most of whom want a weak America with Obama ruling over the dissolution of America as a distinct and relevant country.
Hillary is not concerned about national security. When Wikileaks made Bush look bad she and Obama were okay with it. When Hillary looked bad, she fights her LEFTWING cohorts (Wiki-commies).
Now that Obama is taking hits, he discovers he has law enforcement agencies under his authority. HILLARY AND OBAMA ARE BOTH COMMUNIST GARBAGE.
There’s more to this WikiLeaks crap than what’s on the surface.
1-Did this PFC really have access to the DECRYPTED versions of these messages? Seems poor policy or dereliction of duty or incompetence at best, treason at worst.
2-Or, did this guy Assage manage to decrypt our messages, which would point to a BIG problem, a John Walker style problem with our communications.
Hillary on the other hand actively tried to push through health care legislation by virtue of being the President's Wife !
Hillary's ego is several orders of magnitude larger than Obama's
Hillary Clinton even by accident doesn’t have a prayer of acting beyond her own self-interest, which is what I believe you are also saying. She must shutter to think how she missed the prezidential boat at this particular time, when it turns out that Americans were so ripe and eager for the picking by communists, marxists, totalitarians, et.al., and Herself had no clue how ready we were to collapse our own nation.
Most telling is, of course, the lines at airports indicating just how benign as a people we are. Willing Americans, to board a plane, will subject themselves to searches without cause, anatomical exposure to x-rays, and moral embarrassment. The Jews boarded, in similar compliance, the trains to their own high temp cleansing, but at least they were lied to. We show up at the airport
knowing full well the humiliation awaiting us. Hope it isn’t a grand scheme to get us on the trains eventually, because if so, we will willingly go—that’s been proven.
Don’t cry for Hillary, America
She pinnacled out as a wannabe power behind the throne in the alterative national command centert she established in the West Wing when she was FLOTUS
But...not a bad run for a homely ambiguously heterosexual male-angry gal from Illinois who transplanted to the Ivies, and learned to keep her men for ambition and keep her women for comfort. Looking at the wreckage of her brother’s lives, guess she showed Daddy Rodham who was the real Rodham with balls.
- wife of Governor, Wife of President, carpet bagger replacement for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, dragonlady replacement for Condi Rice
Not to mention 2 mansions and enough pilfered or gifted art and silver to overdecorate both of them
I fail to understand why such a low level soldier should have had access to such a vast array of US secrets when he had no need to know them and that this information could be simply copied onto a flash drive. I can't believe that we don't secure our secret information any better than that. This situation is about like leaving your bank account, tax and personal information in an unencrypted folder on a computer at the public library.
I fail to understand why such a low level soldier should have had access to such a vast array of US secrets when he had no need to know them and that this information could be simply copied onto a flash drive. I can't believe that we don't secure our secret information any better than that. This situation is about like leaving your bank account, tax and personal information in an unencrypted folder on a computer at the public library.
The leaks happened, and were allowed to happen by the Obama white house. Remember, the leaks were sent to the WH and the WH refused to look at them.
Now, they enjoyed the leaks getting out on GW, and they allowed damage to occur that would make Hillary look bad (taking her out of the running against BO) but now, the leaks my embarrass Obama, so all of the sudden they want them stopped.
This was controlled damage, mainly to the enemies of Obama IMHO and it has Chicago style politics written all over it. It happens here all the time, leaks get out to the press that cause more damage to your enemies then to you yourself, and Obama has been a master of that game since he first ran for office here in Illinois.
No dem cared when it endangered our troops, Obama didn’t care when it embarassed the republicans, Obama didn’t even talk about it when the shit hit the fan and it was making Hillary look bad, but now they shut down the servers, and they are trying to stop everything.
Timing is everything, and in this case, the timing smells like a RAT doing what RATs do. Hillary was bested, and made to look a fool, to prevent her from using any information she had gleaned over the last couple of years against Obama.
He nullified her “experience”, now no one can give her credit for handling the state department well.
The game has been played, and Obama is calling “Check”.
You Sir just won the prize. Why in the hell would a PFC have such total access to this information. Something is not right!
You know all of that sounds great, but bottom line is look who casts the vote
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