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Hillary: I Know About Being Commander-in-Chief
NewsMax.com ^ | 5/23/04 | Carl Limbacher and the NewsMax.com staff

Posted on 05/23/2004 9:25:49 AM PDT by kattracks

New York Sen. Hillary Clinton said Sunday that House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was right to say that President Bush "has on his shoulders the death of many more [U.S.] troops" because of his military misjudgments, explaining, "I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief."

"Any Commander-in-Chief bears that responsibility," she told "Fox News Sunday." "It's an awesome, unbelievably overwhelming responsibility. I know a little bit about that."

Clinton also seconded Pelosi's charge that Bush was incompetent, defending her own comments to NBC last week that the president had demonstrated "a pattern and practice of misjudgments that add up to incompetence and lack of credibility."

"I have to say, I've been very disappointed at many of the decisions along the way implementing the judgment of the administration," she told Fox.

Sen. Clinton said that U.S. troop cutbacks had left the U.S. unable to deal simultaneously with the Iraq war and its global defense commitments.

"We have to face the fact that we need a larger active duty military," she told Fox. "We cannot continue to stretch our troops, both active duty, Guard and Reserve, to the breaking point, which is what we're doing now."

During her husband's administration, U.S. troop strength was cut back from 18 active duty divisions to ten.

Sen. Clinton painted a grim picture of U.S. prospects in Iraq, saying, "We have lot of trouble - everybody knows that. My hope is that we can work our way out of the trouble we're in."



TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bureaucraticbitch; cic; hillary; hillaryknew; hitlersdaughter; stophillary; wearethepresident
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To: faithincowboys

...She's not a piece, a big chunk of scarrrey...


41 posted on 05/23/2004 10:11:43 AM PDT by gargoyle
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To: kattracks
""I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief.""

Aha! So she admits she told Willy what to do. We knew that. Unless she is referring to her role as chief of damage control and how she was required to shorten her Christmas card list from time to time.

42 posted on 05/23/2004 10:12:26 AM PDT by Eastbound
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Waco Texas, Shrillary. The blood of those people are on your husband's hands, and vicariously on yours too.


43 posted on 05/23/2004 10:13:41 AM PDT by Jenya
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To: kattracks
"I know a little bit about" being Commander-in-Chief."

Too easy ;^)

44 posted on 05/23/2004 10:14:14 AM PDT by Right_in_Virginia
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To: UnChained
At least somebody was on the job while Ol Billie was laying carpet in his Oral office. She's likely to say: "Yes, I was Commander-in-Chief but I did not authorize the cuts in our military! Perhaps it was my co-conspirator........AH.....I mean partner."

mc
45 posted on 05/23/2004 10:19:05 AM PDT by mcshot (TAGLINE VIRUS compliments of IZZY DUNNE)
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To: gargoyle

LOL.

She is a freakshow. Why Fox news gave her a forum to spew her bilge is beyond me.


46 posted on 05/23/2004 10:21:56 AM PDT by faithincowboys
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To: kattracks

When I read Hillary Clinton's statement, I thought it preposterous.
However, upon reflection I realize her statement contains a kernel of truth.
She does have experience acting as, though not being, Commander-in-Chief: the eight years that Bill spent as President.


47 posted on 05/23/2004 10:23:46 AM PDT by quadrant
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To: kattracks

Besides wearing a rip-off of the Church Lady's dress, she attempted to appear moderate and pro-military which is a tough thing for a radical leftist elitist to pull off. But her umpteen "you knows" and "ums" wreak havoc with believability - too many hesitations as she prevaricates - gives her away every time.


48 posted on 05/23/2004 10:23:53 AM PDT by austingirl
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To: kattracks
There was a thread posted last week, announcing Hitlery's appearance on Fox News Sunday. Several opined that they would not either not watch at all, or would watch and gauge whether or not Wallace would give her a pass. I was in the second group.
I watched, he did, and now I'm through with FNS.
If I want to listen to 'rats spew with impunity, I'll go to Little Lord Stephy or the T-T-T-Timmy show. (not)

Tony Snow, where are you?!?
49 posted on 05/23/2004 10:26:15 AM PDT by rockrr ("If this were a perfect world, Democrats would just be a bad memory - like Typhoid")
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To: kattracks
..."Any Commander-in-Chief bears that responsibility," she told "Fox News Sunday." "It's an awesome, unbelievably overwhelming responsibility. I know a little bit about that."..

She's right! She knows about as little as possible.....
Maybe even less......

50 posted on 05/23/2004 10:27:06 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (This Tagline for sale. (Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: kattracks; yall
Be prepared sports fans..
There are a LOT of very liberal women out there that are very determined to elect one of their own to the catbird seat.

'CIC Hillary' is a very distinct possibility in our political future.

-- But have no fear.. The checks and balances built into our republican form of government are alive & well, correct?
Our dual party system is working, isn't it?
51 posted on 05/23/2004 10:29:26 AM PDT by tpaine ("The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being." -- Solzhenitsyn)
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To: kattracks

Sen. Clinton painted a grim picture of U.S. prospects in Iraq, saying, "We have lot of trouble - everybody knows that. My hope is that we can work our way out of the trouble we're in."

Same thing she said about Whitewater too.

That's all they ever did,"...work our way out of the
trouble we're in."


52 posted on 05/23/2004 10:31:55 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: kattracks
"Any Commander-in-Chief bears that responsibility," she told "Fox News Sunday." "It's an awesome, unbelievably overwhelming responsibility. I know a little bit about that."

Of course. We all remember Waco.

53 posted on 05/23/2004 10:36:53 AM PDT by DonaldDuke
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To: faithincowboys

the beast is just setting the stage for the DNC were Kerry will not accept and she will


54 posted on 05/23/2004 10:38:38 AM PDT by Gone_Postal ("government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to it all away)
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To: kattracks
During her husband's administration, U.S. troop strength was cut back from 18 active duty divisions to ten.

I thought they balanced the budget through sound economic principles, not putting the country at risk.

55 posted on 05/23/2004 10:43:17 AM PDT by FLCowboy,
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To: Gone_Postal

She wants Kerry to accept and have her for Vice-Pres slot, so that when he is elected...she will have him assassinated...just like the rest! She has a plan.


56 posted on 05/23/2004 10:43:35 AM PDT by Kackikat
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To: kattracks
These Democrats are absolutely shameless. First Pelosi and now Hillary
57 posted on 05/23/2004 10:46:17 AM PDT by BJungNan
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To: tet68

She's really painting herself as a buffoon and a weirdo to everyone remotely interested in her outside of the cultists.

She spent a decade building herself up as "notbill" to mainstream left-wing Democrats. Since the Rumsfeld testimony she's turning into "dumberthanbill", which does not bode well for any ambitions she delusionally still holds.

Hillary! is not going anywhere.


58 posted on 05/23/2004 10:49:50 AM PDT by lavrenti (I'm not bad, just misunderstood.)
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To: Kackikat

Hillary = Evil to the highest degree


59 posted on 05/23/2004 10:49:54 AM PDT by Gone_Postal ("government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to it all away)
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To: Robert Teesdale
I see this as her preparatory assertion that she would make a good CIC....

Did you mean to say preparatory instead of predatory?

60 posted on 05/23/2004 10:52:29 AM PDT by RightWhale (Destroy the dark; restore the light)
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