Posted on 12/30/2007 5:28:51 PM PST by mdittmar
U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Sunday brushed aside assertions she only has sidelines experience, not game experience, in facing presidential issues.
Speaking on ABC's "This Week with George Stephanopoulos," the presidential hopeful said the criticism emanating from the rival campaign of Sen. Chris Dodd, D-Conn. -- that her years as first lady while her husband was president are irrelevant -- is to be expected in the final run-up to the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary.
"But I think the reality and the evidence is far different," she said. "I was intimately involved in so much that went on in the White House, here at home, and around the world."
As an example, she pointed out she went to China to push for women's rights.
"When I went to Beijing, I wasn't a witness. I was a spokesperson and proud to be for the proposition that women's rights are human rights, and that cascaded across the world," she said.
Clinton acknowledged she didn't sit in on National Security Council meetings.
"But I had direct access to all of the decision-makers," she said. "I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information."
if she had real experience then this wouldn’t be an issue ... the more she tries to explain it away, the more it sticks to her
screams of desperation......wave all, Hillary’s folk are here reading about her.....
Yep she does. In -—
Plotting
Scheming
Corruption
Lying
Bullying
Stealing
Destroying
Degrading
Obscenities
etc.
So who violated the law by providing her with classified information?
Dear mirkwood,
The Bush Administration is trying to cover its tracks - and it’s up to our Democratic Majority in Congress to stop them.
The Administration wants us to pass a law to grant immunity to any phone company that participated in President Bush’s secret domestic spying program.
The CIA now admits it destroyed video tapes showing agents using torture to interrogate suspects. Torture is illegal, and covering it up is a crime too.
It’s obvious this Administration thinks it’s a law unto itself. They don’t trust the American people with the truth. That’s unacceptable. Demand the truth from President
President Bush doesn’t accept the rule of law, and apparently the phone companies don’t either. With their help, the Bush Administration secretly spied on Americans for years, without any court orders or oversight. Now the president wants Congress to grant retroactive immunity to companies that broke the law at his bidding.
President Bush claims that American lives will be lost unless Congress changes FISA. He also says he’ll veto any legislation changing FISA unless it includes immunity for the phone companies.
So if we take the President at his word, he’s willing to sacrifice American lives to protect phone companies! Who’s next? The private contractors they’ve let run amok in Iraq? The airlines they use to take suspects to other countries where torture is legal?
Enough is enough is enough is enough. Tell President Bush our laws apply to him too - and anyone who helps the Administration violate them:
President Bush’s secret domestic spying program showed nothing but contempt for existing law, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, the bipartisan law that Congress passed and President Carter signed 29 years ago.
As Jack Goldsmith, who led the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel in 2003 and 2004, recently said:
“Top officials in the Administration dealt with FISA the way they dealt with other laws they didn’t like: they blew through them in secret based on flimsy legal opinions that they guarded closely so no one could question the legal basis of the operations.”
The Bush Administration has no respect for the rule of law. Is it any surprise that he and his administration have lost the trust of the American people?
From illegal spying intelligence to willful destruction of evidence, I refuse to give this president any benefit of the doubt. Stand with me:
Thank you for your support.
Sincerely,
Senator Edward M. Kennedy
do you have to sugar-coat it?
Yep.
She knew everything that went on.
She was so included and aware.
The liar lied?
Next thing we'll see...
The cheaters cheat.
Anyone who is even partially honest and is not mentally challenged HAS to admit that these clintons are liars and cheats.
real bad....
Since she didn't have a security clearance, is it too late to hang someone's a** for giving her access to classified information? What is the statute of limitations on that?
Well I did leave out her experience in using Foul Language. lol
I’m sure her aides, publicists, and financers do, anyway.
pillow talk?,wonder what monica knows?
Uh, doesn't anyone in the media see a wee bit of a conflict of interest with her husband's freakin' press secretary interviewing Hillary? Imagine Nancy Reagan running for president being interviewed on ABC's Lyn Nofziger Show.
Since she has none, and since it is increasingly obvious that she is lying every time she claims it, it would be better if she dropped the lie.
But she can't. I wonder why?
“”But I had direct access to all of the decision-makers,” she said. “I was briefed on a range of issues, often provided classified information.””
She should be in jail for that.
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