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Clinton Says She'd Give Up Some Powers
Brietbart ^ | 10/23/07 | staff

Posted on 10/23/2007 11:16:00 AM PDT by teddyballgame

NEW YORK (AP) - If elected president in 2008, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office. In an interview published Tuesday in Guardian America, a Web site run by the London-based Guardian newspaper, Clinton denounced the Bush Administration's push to concentrate more power in the White House as a "power grab" not supported by the Constitution.

Asked if she would consider giving up some of those powers if she were president, Clinton replied, "Oh, absolutely ... I mean, that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that."

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To: teddyballgame
Hillary will be happy to give up some powers, e.g. because as stated in Bay Buchanan's book, "The Extreme Makeover of Hillary Rodham Clinton," Hillary is "well-informed but she has no vision – so she compensates by knowing the facts in detail – she employs an extremely large staff to pull together the final product, policy or idea for the future. This has been a pattern throughout her life. She has employed gurus. Influences that are quite disturbing."

Read up...fascinating account of the Hildabeast...

21 posted on 10/23/2007 11:26:44 AM PDT by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: teddyballgame

She can’t wait to get her hands on the Karl Rove Mind Control Beam.


22 posted on 10/23/2007 11:28:18 AM PDT by blau993 ((Fight Gerbil Swarming))
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To: Hemorrhage

My thoughts exactly. Let’s make sure sure never gets any presidential powers.


23 posted on 10/23/2007 11:28:20 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Hemorrhage
...ceding all executive powers to President Fred Thompson

...what? Shall we start a pool? After weeks, months, or years? Surely Hitlery will not allow itself to be out-done in the tenacity department by Algore!

HF

24 posted on 10/23/2007 11:28:42 AM PDT by holden
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To: Hemorrhage
The most power hungry bitch on the face of the earth trying to tell people she would give up power. What a crock of crap!!!!!!
Thank God that all the polls show that more than half of the voters in the USA say NEVER to the hilderbeast!!!!!
25 posted on 10/23/2007 11:30:44 AM PDT by oldenuff2no (My dad ldft for Europe in)
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To: teddyballgame

Not called a congenital liar for nothing.


26 posted on 10/23/2007 11:32:15 AM PDT by CPT Clay (Drill ANWR, Personal Accounts NOW , Vote Hunter in the Primary)
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To: teddyballgame
Isn't there a little piece of paper. I am sure she isn't familiar with it. I believe it is called the Constitution that decides what powers are conferred to which branch?
27 posted on 10/23/2007 11:33:48 AM PDT by Lost Dutchman ("Weep for the future Na'Toth, Weep for us all." (G'Kar-Babylon 5))
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To: teddyballgame

Considering the Clinton’s excel at using illegal criminal powers in secret and the dark of night... what does she care about what power’s that are legal and above board


28 posted on 10/23/2007 11:35:16 AM PDT by tophat9000 (You need to have standards to fail and be a hypocrite, Dem's therefor are never hypocrites)
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To: teddyballgame

Don’t forget she’s a lawyer. All she says was that she ‘intends’ to do ‘it’. My reading of the quote is that she ‘intends’ a review, but says nothing about actually giving up Executive Power.


29 posted on 10/23/2007 11:36:40 AM PDT by bobwoodard
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To: teddyballgame

Liberals always use words differently from the rest of us.

In this context, and after careful parsing, what she means is that she will give up any effort to defend the US against its enemies, especially if they agree to contribute to her campaign funds and Swiss bank accounts.

It doesn’t mean, however, that this powerdrunk manipulator will give up her power. She will merely use it in different directions, as she and her husband did earlier, spying on her American enemies in what she refers to as the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, rather than bothering about Muslim terrorists or Russian and Chinese Communist spies.

Bush is concerned about defending our country against its enemies. The clintons are only concerned about defending themselves against their personal enemies.

There, fixed it.


30 posted on 10/23/2007 11:40:25 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: xtinct
[Hitlery] has employed gurus

...and consulted the dead, Eleanor Roosevelt, for example. Elie probably didn't ask for a consulting fee, but the Bible suggests that consulting the dead will be driven out before the LORD.

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 "There shall not be found among you anyone who [SNIP] calls up the dead.

"For whoever does these things is detestable to the LORD; and because of these detestable things the LORD your God will drive them out before you."

HF

31 posted on 10/23/2007 11:41:40 AM PDT by holden
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To: teddyballgame

Clinton Says She’d Give Up Some Powers
***And she’s selling ocean front property in Nebraska. Weird thing is, people are buying it.


32 posted on 10/23/2007 11:41:43 AM PDT by Kevmo (We should withdraw from Iraq — via Tehran. And Duncan Hunter is just the man to get that job done.))
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To: teddyballgame
If elected president in 2008, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office

That would be like Palpatine stepping down and saying "My bad" ...

just ain't gonna happen

33 posted on 10/23/2007 11:42:07 AM PDT by Centurion2000 (False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
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34 posted on 10/23/2007 11:44:52 AM PDT by Califreak (Duncan Hunter-no clothespin necessary!)
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To: teddyballgame

I sure wish she’d give up that power she has over me that makes me want to puke every time I see her or hear her.


35 posted on 10/23/2007 11:44:57 AM PDT by Nervous Tick
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To: teddyballgame
Among other things, they have pushed for warrantless wiretapping of terrorist suspects and the use of "signing statements" to justify ignoring or defying laws enacted by Congress.

Congress doesn't enact law you lying sack of s***. Laws only happen once the President signs it into Law or Congress overrides the President's veto

Therefore there is no way the President can "ignore or defy laws enacted by Congress"

36 posted on 10/23/2007 11:45:21 AM PDT by KenHorse (It may be the only purpose of your life is to serve as a warning to others)
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To: teddyballgame

She’d do things secretly, and the Times won’t leak her secrets.


37 posted on 10/23/2007 11:52:39 AM PDT by syriacus (When you think "government health care," remember "public housing.")
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To: teddyballgame
If elected president in 2008, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office. In an interview published Tuesday in Guardian America, a Web site run by the London-based Guardian newspaper, Clinton denounced the Bush Administration's push to concentrate more power in the White House as a "power grab" not supported by the Constitution.

In the last eight years I have witnessed a power grab by Senate Democrats, and a Speaker of the House acting as a Secretary of State. I have not witnessed any power grab by the executive branch. As always, The Beast projects and lies in the same sentence.

38 posted on 10/23/2007 11:54:24 AM PDT by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: KenHorse

Notice how Hillarious Hillary talks - using WHEN, not IF as if her winning is a given........


39 posted on 10/23/2007 11:55:15 AM PDT by GYPSY286 (Politicians must USE their heads or Americans will LOSE their heads.)
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To: Lost Dutchman
Isn't there a little piece of paper. I am sure she isn't familiar with it. I believe it is called the Constitution that decides what powers are conferred to which branch?

You don't really believe "she" would let a little document like the constitution stop her, do you?

40 posted on 10/23/2007 11:57:07 AM PDT by Edgerunner (If you won't let the military fight your battles, you will have to. Keep your powder dry...)
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