Posted on 12/26/2007 12:01:28 PM PST by neverdem
As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.
But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.
And during one of President Bill Clinton’s major tests on terrorism, whether to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998, Mrs. Clinton was barely speaking to her husband, let alone advising him, as the Lewinsky scandal sizzled.
In seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton lays claim to two traits nearly every day: strength and experience. But as the junior senator from New York, she has few significant legislative accomplishments to her name. She has cast herself, instead, as a first lady like no other: a full partner to her husband in his administration, and, she says, all the stronger and more experienced for her “eight years with a front-row seat on history.”
Her rivals scoff at the idea that her background gives her any special qualifications for the presidency. Senator Barack Obama has especially questioned “what experiences she’s claiming” as first lady, noting that the job is not the same as being a cabinet member, much less president.
And late last week, Mr. Obama suggested that more foreign policy experts from the Clinton administration were supporting his candidacy than hers...
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
“if being first lady counts as experience to being president”
then Hillery would be as qualified as Mary Todd Licoln would have been in 1872...?
Oh. . and yes, there IS that. He can then be back in full access of whole bevy of interns, little gals barely out of their teens which he can draw from as sex partners at will - if past history is any indication.
Ask yourself. Where IS poor Monica Lewinsky today? Has she been able to have a normal life, find herself a husband and have a family? (I don’t know; just asking.) Does she command $100,000 speaking engagements and millions for book deals? Is ANYTHING Bill Clinton has to say really more than the full o’ bull blatherings of an aging womanizer? - and more importantly, just how much real credit does Hillary Clinton deserve for once (at least once I suppose) having slept with this aging, sexually puerile Narcissus.
Since you put it that way, I’ll not vote for her.
“And by that same token, I can play lead guitar.”
You’re a drummer, right?
I was alreay racking my brain... what EXPERIENCE are they talking about!?... At what time did she get that so called E-X-P-E-R-I-E-N-C-E.....?
She maybe the Most experienced first lady in putiing out "Bimbo eruptions" through his presidency... or who knows, perhaps cleaning foreign substances from his clothing... who knows? :)
But EXPERIENCE IN FOREIGN POLICY? HA! LOL.
Thanks for the history and analysis.
I wish!
Truth be told, I’ve always wanted to play bass. Chick bass players are way cool.
That’s a great article by Dick Morris on Bill’s lies about what Hillary has done. People can see and forward that article. It is at FrontPageMag.org. It’s entitled, “Bill Crafts Hillary’s Bio”. The article is from August 09, 2007.
There really is no evidence to support your supposition.
At least Mary Todd Lincoln didn’t talk to ghosts.
Now there you go with the rumor that Hillary is a thespian, again. Sheesh.
“At least Mary Todd Lincoln didn’t talk to ghosts.”
“Is that you Elanor??” sp?
And Diana Farve will be starting this Sunday!
Not even cooking bacon?
Okay, well, I will give you that one.
(But when you fry bacon, keep your shirt on. I hear it’s a good idea.)
Yeah, and the locker room attendant should be considered for the head coaching job because of his proximity during his tenure.
However, she took the "against" position.
resume??? the Beast is lucky she can even spell it...
I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt on Chelsea. That’s one, I reckon.
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