Posted on 06/09/2012 4:31:44 AM PDT by Son House
But she again stressed the corrosive effect of the mounting U.S. debt, which she said threatened the United States' ability to chart its own course in the world and sends "a message of weakness internationally."
"It poses a national security threat in two ways: it undermines our capacity to act in our own interest, and it does constrain us where constraint may be undesirable," Clinton said in response to a question after her address to the Council on Foreign Relations think tank.
The U.S. budget deficit is projected to hit $1.5 trillion this year and has become a campaign issue ahead of November's congressional elections in which President Barack Obama's Democrats are trying to prevent big losses to Republicans.
Clinton in the past has said it was "personally painful" to see the yawning U.S. spending gap after her husband, former President Bill Clinton, ended his second term in 2001 with budget surpluses.
She said on Wednesday she had no wish to "relitigate" the reasons for the current budget crunch, but nevertheless pointed to policies enacted by Obama's Republican predecessor George W. Bush.
...Clinton, beaten by Obama for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, noted that in her current job she is "by law out of politics" and said the challenges ahead would need a bipartisan "detente" on key issues including a new nuclear arms treaty with Russia.
"Whether one is a Republican or a Democrat, a conservative, a progressive -- whatever you call yourself -- there is no free lunch and we cannot pretend that there is without doing grave harm to our country and to our future generations," she said.
She again urged bipartisan support for the START treaty with Russia, which has not yet garnered the Republican backing it needs to secure Senate ratification.
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Flashback hilldabeast is a globalists funded by Soros, not the female messiah those out thier are looking for
Democrats just can’t keep themselves from Blaming Bush. Never mind that Obama, Biden, and Clinton were all US Senators in a Democrat controlled Congress for the last two years of Bush’s Presidency.
“Somehow I have trouble believing Hillary is against raising the debt ceiling again, but if she still is, I’ll take it over Boehner making a deal with Democrats to raise it.”
I’m with you.
Stealth campaign to steal the nomination?
Only reason why Hillary isn’t tossing her hat into the ring is she doesn’t have the money.
The Clntons are going rogue. They will sell ou Obama ever chance they get to force Obama not to run again. Biden will become the front runner and then every gaffe he ever made, including his plagiarist past will come out.
At that point you draft Hillary, no ground game needed. No commercials to run and every lib columnist will be out full force. At that point yjust ignore Romney.
If the Dems are using the MSM exit polling data, they are in real trouble and too stupid to realize it.
If the Dems are using real internal polling data, they know Obama is in deep, deep trouble.
Backroom strategy meetings have been going on since Tuesday. They are trying to figure out which would be better:
A. Dump Obama now [feigned illness or some such appeasement excuse], cut their loses, and maybe put someone like Hillary on the ballot.
B. Go into November with a sure loss and try to recover in 2014/2016.
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If Obama continues to rival Biden as the gaffe machine, if they can’t get some positive signs on the economy, they still have time to go with Plan A. Otherwise, the weakly GOP candidate might win November by EV numbers rivaling Obama’s 2008 numbers.
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