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She’s No Morgenthau (Dowd rips Hillary's riding on Bill's coattails)
New York Times ^ | November 21, 2007 | MAUREEN DOWD

Posted on 11/21/2007 4:15:55 AM PST by tlb

.. the New York senator had touted her own know-how, saying that “there is one job we can’t afford on-the-job training for — that’s the job of our next president.”

Obama offered a zinger feathered with amused disdain: “My understanding was that she wasn’t Treasury secretary in the Clinton administration, so I don’t know exactly what experiences she’s claiming.”

It took him nine months, but he finally found the perfect pitch to make a trenchant point.

She went on some first lady jaunts. But she was certainly not, as her top Iowa supporter, former governor Tom Vilsack claimed yesterday on MSNBC, “the face of the administration in foreign affairs.”

She was a top adviser who had a Nixonian bent for secrecy and a knack for hard-core politicking.

Getting ahead through connections is common in life. But Hillary cloaks her nepotism in feminism.

“She hasn’t accomplished anything on her own since getting admitted to Yale Law,” wrote Joan Di Cola. All Hillary is, is Mrs. Clinton.

President Bush is not so enamored of Obama’s foreign policy judgment. He gave a plug to Hillary on ABC News last night, calling her a “formidable candidate,” even under pressure, who “understands the klieg lights.”

Hillary pounced, knowing that her chief rival’s foreign policy résumé is as slender as his physique, once more conjuring a childish Obama. She brazenly borrowed Republican talking points, even though she accused John Edwards of “throwing mud” that was “right out of the Republican playbook.”

“With all due respect,” she told a crowd in Iowa. “I don’t think living in a foreign country between the ages of 6 and 10 is foreign policy experience.”

But is living in the White House between the ages of 45 and 53 foreign policy experience?

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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Two devastating hit pieces on Hillary vs Obambi in a row. Mo has found the range.
1 posted on 11/21/2007 4:15:56 AM PST by tlb
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To: tlb

Rules!!!


2 posted on 11/21/2007 4:17:40 AM PST by bmwcyle (BOMB, BOMB, BOMB,.......BOMB, BOMB IRAN)
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To: tlb

It simply amazes me that so many moonbat leftists hate Hillary, when she’s clearly got the ability to win and give them the socialist utopia they want. It’s a good thing, don’t get me wrong. I just don’t understand how they can’t see it and why they hate her in spite of it.


3 posted on 11/21/2007 4:29:58 AM PST by Hardastarboard (DemocraticUnderground.com is an internet hate site.)
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To: bmwcyle

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy...

But you go girl.


4 posted on 11/21/2007 4:33:15 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: bmwcyle

;oD

5 posted on 11/21/2007 4:34:00 AM PST by maggief
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To: Pikachu_Dad

What’s up with the Bushes? Are they trying to kill her by praising her?


6 posted on 11/21/2007 4:34:37 AM PST by Pikachu_Dad
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To: bmwcyle

Rules are rules!

7 posted on 11/21/2007 4:35:18 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: tlb

Maybe Mo still sees HRC as the “other woman.”


8 posted on 11/21/2007 4:39:31 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: tlb

It’s too bad a true independent can’t get to ask a question at one of the democrat debates. Like:

“Mrs. Clinton, you claim to have foreign policy experience by virtue of your eight years as ‘co-president.’” So, in response to one of many terrorist attacks during those years, was it your idea or your husband’s to bomb an aspirin factory? Did you lobby for a different response—perhaps bombing a Tylenol factory—while Usama bin Laden was allowed to roam free?”


9 posted on 11/21/2007 4:39:51 AM PST by TruthShallSetYouFree (Abortion is to family planning what bankruptcy is to financial planning.)
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To: tlb

How many presidents had prior experience as a president?


10 posted on 11/21/2007 4:41:59 AM PST by Raycpa
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To: tlb

11 posted on 11/21/2007 4:42:27 AM PST by Jim Noble (Trails of trouble, roads of battle, paths of victory we shall walk.)
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To: maggief

MoDo has some big feet there!

(Amazing that she can fit them in her mouth so often.)


12 posted on 11/21/2007 4:45:26 AM PST by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Hardastarboard
Maureen Dowd -- The easiest decision Michael Douglas ever made...hehe. I can't stand MoDo but applaud her for this piece, especially because it's the kind of critique you know cuts Hillary to her bitter, rotten core. All the humiliation and misery she suffered as Bill's Carmela Soprano/Lady MacBeth, and yet even a cocktail-numb Manhattan witch like Dowd can see through her feminist cloak. Sick as it is, I would love to know the last time Hill and Bill got it on.

That said, I do understand why the moonbats hate her. She is a realist driven more by personal ambition than ideology. Her foreign policy in particular would be closer to Bush's than most here would admit. Bill would have gone into Iraq too if the polls supported it.

13 posted on 11/21/2007 4:47:07 AM PST by Callahan
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To: Pikachu_Dad

George Bush is now fully controlled by the golbalist crowd, so he’s only concerned that the US eventually go to war with Iran - and Hillary is the most likely choice to continue that policy, as she’s firmly in the globalist orbit too.

(Notice also that neither one wants to do anything about the southern border, another hallmark of the globalists).


14 posted on 11/21/2007 4:49:18 AM PST by canuck_conservative
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Maybe, Dowd thinks if she attacks hillary some other actor will romance her to shut her up
15 posted on 11/21/2007 5:15:59 AM PST by sticker
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Maybe, Dowd thinks if she attacks hillary some other actor will romance her to shut her up

Kinda like a Cargo Cult for Clintonistas...

16 posted on 11/21/2007 5:24:43 AM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
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To: Callahan
This is one of those thought-free-zone Dowd pieces that you only click for the CZJ pics. But it is the perfect antidote to the content-free Clinton campaign. It makes no sense to refute Hillary! because she takes all sides of all issues. The only way to combat her is by going after the fluff.
17 posted on 11/21/2007 5:26:45 AM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
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To: gridlock
The only way to combat her is by going after the fluff.

Kinda like with the knock 'em down dolls at the carnival. If you hit the fluff hard enough, they'll go over.

18 posted on 11/21/2007 5:30:32 AM PST by gridlock (Recycling is the new Religion.)
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To: tlb
Having MoDo "hit" you is like being nibbled by a duck. She's got nothing, and is proud of it. She doesn't even have a husband's coattails to disdain.

-Joan

19 posted on 11/21/2007 5:33:07 AM PST by JoanVarga ("Por que no te callas?" Who knew a European King had a back bone?)
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To: tlb

Hillary’s right. We need a president with experience in elephant-riding.


20 posted on 11/21/2007 5:33:26 AM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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