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Hillary Clinton: I Would Not Submit to One of TSA’s Patdowns (Too bad for you ordinary folks)
MEDIA ITE ^ | 11/21/2010 | Nisha Chittal

Posted on 11/21/2010 10:50:16 AM PST by WebFocus

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made the Sunday talk show rounds this morning, appearing on Fox News Sunday, CBS’s Face the Nation, and NBC’s Meet the Press. The topic of conversation: TSA’s new security measures and national security.

On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Secretary Clinton whether she would submit to one of TSA’s controversial new patdowns.

“Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean who would?” she responded.

However, she did note that while she feels the new patdowns should be made less intrusive, they are still a necessary security measure. On Meet the Press, she told David Gregory “I mean obviously the vast, vast majority of people getting on these planes are law abiding citizens who are just trying to get from one place to another. But let’s not kid ourselves. The terrorists are adaptable.”

“Striking the right balance is what this is about. And I am absolutely confident that our security experts are gonna keep trying to get it better and less intrusive and more precise…Everybody is trying to do the right thing and I understand how difficult it is, and how offensive it must be for the people who are going through it,” she said.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: airport; hillaryclinton; patdowns; tsa; tsapervs
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To: Right Cal Gal

nope, she said she was not running for president, she said so on Fox with Chris Wallace


21 posted on 11/21/2010 11:38:54 AM PST by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: hinckley buzzard

You are more likely correct than I in her case.


22 posted on 11/21/2010 11:39:41 AM PST by bvw (No TSA goon will touch MY stuff)
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To: hinckley buzzard

nope, she said she was not running for president, she said so on Fox with Chris Wallace


23 posted on 11/21/2010 11:41:11 AM PST by Bullfrogg (American by birth, Irish by heritage, and hellraiser by choice)
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To: WebFocus
Hillary Clinton: I Would Not Submit to One of TSA’s Patdowns

(but Bill would, so long as the TSA screener was a chick)
24 posted on 11/21/2010 11:43:11 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: hinckley buzzard

RE: “Look for more of this pseudo- populist sentiment from Hillary as she positions herself for 2012. She knows that as of 2010 the usual liberal/ leftist hogwash has expired, so she will be moving toward a false-front center/right.”

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Hey, if hubby could reposition himself closer to center for re-election, she can do it to oppose Zero now. She says she’s not running but certainly she’d do it for the ‘good of the party.’ She may even start speaking fondly of her early days — as a Goldwater Girl in the ‘64 campaign, you know, before she became a Marxist.

Interesting that all the ‘talk shows’ are courting her now, isn’t it?


25 posted on 11/21/2010 11:48:09 AM PST by CaliforniaCon
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To: WebFocus

Yep she is going to run for president


26 posted on 11/21/2010 11:54:50 AM PST by RnMomof7 (Gal 4:16 asks "Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?")
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To: Bullfrogg
nope, she said she was not running for president, she said so on Fox with Chris Wallace

Yup, I saw that too

... then again, she also said during her 2006 Senate campaign that she would serve her full 6-year term if re-elected .... so she has a history of being less-than-truthful (remember running to avoid the Bosnian airport snipers?!)

.... besides, the Yankees lost again - that's trying to tell us something.


27 posted on 11/21/2010 12:14:35 PM PST by canuck_conservative
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To: Bullfrogg
I saw just a few seconds of Chris Wallace's show today but it was that part where Hillary denied planning to run for elective office.

It reminded me of the saying, "Never believe anything until it has been officially denied."

When he ran for re-election as governor of Arkansas in 1990, Bill Clinton promised he wouldn't run for President during his term.

28 posted on 11/21/2010 12:19:02 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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To: WebFocus

Hillary stirs....


29 posted on 11/21/2010 12:26:25 PM PST by Mr. Peabody
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To: WebFocus
Has the Dragon Lady ever flown commercial in the past 16 years??
30 posted on 11/21/2010 12:30:30 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda" and its allies.)
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To: WebFocus

we purchased our tickets long before this became common knowledge, I am real upset. I did not give consent for this kind of treatment and I am quite put off by it.


31 posted on 11/21/2010 12:39:31 PM PST by television is just wrong
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To: WebFocus

You know she asked Bill how to answer this question before she said anything.


32 posted on 11/21/2010 1:06:25 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: WebFocus

You know she asked Bill how to answer this question before she said anything.


33 posted on 11/21/2010 1:06:25 PM PST by Opinionated Blowhard
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To: Atlantan
Thanks for posting this. It's always interesting to know where they are at on these things and it's kind of a bipartisan hatred. I love the term they coined.."GATE RAPE" I also thought this post was interesting:\

I am a rape survivor.
While the TSA scan I endured last week (PHL to CHI) didn't involve forcible penetration, it DID involve a stranger putting hands -- forcefully -- on areas of my body that I consider private. Unannounced, unwanted and aggressively.
I damn near had a panic attack, and the more agitated and upset I got, the more stern and rough the scanner got. It did not matter that it was a female TSA agent performing the pat-down; all of the emotional trauma of having my body appropriated by someone else came flooding back.
I will never fly again, and I would not subject my daughters to what I consider to be a form of sexual harassment bordering on assault.

34 posted on 11/21/2010 1:12:36 PM PST by Hildy
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To: tanknetter

Hillary Clinton: I Would Not Submit to One of TSA’s Patdowns
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But in the ‘text’ of the article she is quoted
“Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean, who would?” she responded.

So, isn’t she saying she would rather not, but admitting that if necessary she would?

Of course it is a typical double standard type answer from a seasoned pol. Answer the question yes and no, then you can cite to an answer according to who you are talking to.


35 posted on 11/21/2010 1:15:56 PM PST by xrmusn ((6/98))
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To: WebFocus
On Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked Secretary Clinton whether she would submit to one of TSA’s controversial new patdowns. “Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean who would?” she responded.

She told Bill the same thing about groping her, and we all know where that led.


36 posted on 11/21/2010 1:28:18 PM PST by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Pollster1
" Bob Schieffer asked Secretary Clinton whether she would submit to one of TSA’s controversial new patdowns. “Not if I could avoid it. No. I mean who would?” she responded."


37 posted on 11/21/2010 1:38:14 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: YankeeReb
"...if you have a bomb or weapon you're going to be nervous,..."

Exactly! Now what happens when a nervous bomber looks around while waiting to go through security and realizes that he has the equivalent of a plane load of passengers standing around him in the "Disneyland style" zig-zag line?

Do we go to "pre-security screening" screening?

Then to pre-pre-screening?

Stop them at the front door to the terminal?

How about stopping them from entering the country? How about stopping them at the mosque?

38 posted on 11/21/2010 1:39:01 PM PST by BwanaNdege ("a comeuppance is due the arrogant elites" - Charles Krauthammer)
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To: WebFocus

I assume Hillary is afraid of what they might find


39 posted on 11/21/2010 4:23:19 PM PST by Arec Barrwin
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To: Arec Barrwin

Hillary has extra gear on board.


40 posted on 11/21/2010 4:24:28 PM PST by Luke21
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