Comments on: Slate reporter to Hillary aides: Name one foreign policy crisis she’s been tested by

By: Tantor

Tantor — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 06:38:16 +0000

Well, back in November 1999, Hillary sat by the side of Suha Arafat, Yassir’s wife, while she made a speech in which she claimed, “Our [Palestinian] people have been submitted to the daily and intensive use of poisonous gas by the Israeli forces, which has led to an increase in cancer cases among women and children.” Hillary kept her mouth shut, then gave Mrs. Arafat a hug and kiss at the end of her speech. So that policy crisis was averted, calling a terrorist leader’s wife on her lies, by simply playing kissy face. Problem solved!

And that’s the approach Obama proposes so the Democrats are agreed on that.

By: freevillage

freevillage — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 21:30:56 +0000

Why didn’t they mention her vote to designate the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization? Given the static she’s gotten for it and the left’s squeamishness about even the tiniest bit of saber-rattling towards Iran, that took no small amount of nerve. Or is she running away from that now, too?

She should be. It was a stupid vote. I don’t know if she can though.

By: wildweasel

wildweasel — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 13:14:19 +0000

Vladimir Putin on the HRC comment that he has no soul: “At a minimum, a head of state should have a head.”
February 15, 2008

There’s your foriegn policy genious. How come no one has asked her to comment on that? I think the media still loves her and wants her to die a glorius death rather than skewering her like they do republicans.

Hillary’s house of cards is in full collapse.

By: MannyT-vA

MannyT-vA — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 12:05:49 +0000

does trying to figure out which set of flats will reduce the appearance of the sheer massiveness of her kankles in a women’s shoe store in Milan, Italy count as a foreign policy crisis? I’m guessing she hopes so because that’s about as close as she’d get.

By: Western_Civ

Western_Civ — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 05:08:37 +0000

Oh how your conservatives memories are short. Don’t you recall how HDRC rescued the would-be supermarket taboloid candidate from the toilet and from international terrorist Jennifer Flowers in 1992? She stood by the man from Hope and co-architected the political language of let ye who is without sin cast the first stone. HDRC answered the red phone on 60 minutes by proping up 1992′s “change candidate” when he acknowledged “wrongdoing and causing pain in my marriage.” This eventually led to great moments in US foreign policy like tying the hands of Marines in Mogadishu: trading dollars and fuel for broken promises from N.Koea; and aerial bombardment from 50,000 feet in Serbia. And how could you forget stovepiping domestic intelligence gathering so as not to offend our overseas “friends” and bombing aspirin factories? C’mon, give her some props. She was co-decider on all those bigtime red phone moments.

By: jimbo2008

jimbo2008 — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 01:03:29 +0000

I’m sorry folks, but “35 years of experience”??? DOING WHAT??????????!!!!! I WILL NOT ACCEPT YEARS AS A CORPORATE LAWYER, FIRST LADY IN ARKANSAS AND THE U.S. AS “EXPERIENCE” ON A RESUME FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES!!!
She is a one-term Senator from socialist N.Y. THAT is the extent of her REAL “experience”. All the rest is wind.

By: SouthernGent

SouthernGent — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:51:33 +0000

She did call Petraus a liar. Does that count?

By: williars

williars — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:40:17 +0000

Oh Please. Someone had good crisis-management skills during Pres. Clinton’s 8 wasted years. Guess who?
I think her advisors just can’t figure a way to frame it without dissing Bill. Apparently she’ll have 4 years to work on a ~~div~~ re-frame.
Randy

By: Bigfoot

Bigfoot — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:54:18 +0000

Isn’t Lewinsky Polish?

Does that count?

MB4 on March 1, 2008 at 4:40 PM

Most likely not. Polish does not permit a “y” to follow a “k” or a “g”, except for words adopted from other languages. A name ending in “ski” would be Polish, but one ending in “sky” could be either Czech or Russian.

But then, Russian or Czech would be just as foreign as Polish, so this doesn’t change your second question.

By: stonemeister

stonemeister — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:20:12 +0000

Perhaps the better question is: Name one foreign policy disaster she’ll cause in the future?

By: NNtrancer

NNtrancer — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:13:31 +0000

I’m sure Ms. Hillary Klingon really has convinced herself that she, not Bill, was president during his administration. After all, if she bossed him around, doesn’t that make her the boss?

By: sabbott

sabbott — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 22:08:36 +0000

Do Bimbo eruptions count? Better put some ice on that Hillary!

By: volsense

volsense — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:59:14 +0000

There is no telling how many foreign women that Slick Willie has groped and assaulted that she has had to trash to get here. If she cannot hold her own with her husband why would any Middle Eastern leader who doesn’t give women equal status even acknowledge her existence?

By: petefrt

petefrt — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:56:01 +0000

Hil didn’t have a security clearance, so she couldn’t be privy to info regarding any foreign policy crisis. Simple as that.

By: Carl

Carl — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:54:19 +0000

For a rare instance, I have to agree with Barack Hussein Obama when he points out Hillary Diane Rodham-Clinton's flip-flopping when it comes to her dismal, tiny record as "First Lady" when she claims credit (whether legit or not) on things that went right during William Jefferson Blythe Clinton's administration and then runs away from things she initially claimed involvement that end up going badly (ex. - socialized health care).

By: MB4

MB4 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:42:45 +0000

She did sleep with bill clinton for 8 years.

lorien1973 on March 1, 2008 at 3:27 PM

I very much doubt that.

By: MB4

MB4 — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:40:48 +0000

Name one foreign policy crisis she’s been tested by

Isn’t Lewinsky Polish?

Does that count?

By: Speakup

Speakup — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:38:31 +0000

there appears to be a snobbish presumption in some of the reporting that Clinton has risen, almost Jed Clampett-like, above his station. Jody Powell, the former Carter White House spokesman, is among those who see a disdain for white southerners in some of the coverage. He’s right, judging by the language that slips out: “. . . so White Guy . . . Clinton’s game is Bubba golf . . . L’il Abner.”

http://backissues.cjrarchives.org/year/93/6/capital_letter.asp

I guess she means that when your the wife of an Arkansas governor, everyplace you go after that is foreign, especially when your husband is the crisis.

By: Ann

Ann — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:34:05 +0000

If sleeping with Bill Clinton during his eight years in office is the main qualifier, I think there are about at least a half-dozen other women more qualified for POTUS. Just saying.

Sugar Land on March 1, 2008 at 4:05 PM

Well put Sugar Land, well put…Roflmao

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:31:48 +0000

Where’s the post about that, anyway? Try as I might, I couldn’t find it.

By: urbancenturion

urbancenturion — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:31:03 +0000

Doesn't that frontpage pic of Hil look like she has Conan O'Brien hair?

My first reaction was to think that the guy from Slate had written the question for McCain, got confused and forgot who he was talking to. snaggletoothie on March 1, 2008 at 3:34 PM

Just like McCain got confused and forgot to keep his cover about being liberal.

By: terryannonline

terryannonline — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:08:55 +0000

If the Dems were looking for experience they would have at least given Biden and Richardson more than a passing glance.

By: Sugar Land

Sugar Land — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 21:05:30 +0000

If sleeping with Bill Clinton during his eight years in office is the main qualifier, I think there are about at least a half-dozen other women more qualified for POTUS. Just saying.

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:50:43 +0000

I hope you meant slept next to. Stop trying to put bad images in my head.

Your Brother John on March 1, 2008 at 3:30 PM

“Even that might be a misoverestimation” – - G.W. Bush, 43

By: Entelechy

Entelechy — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 20:48:41 +0000

Oh come on, AP. Everyone knows she’s got extensive experience in the Middle East…

see-dubya on March 1, 2008 at 3:14 PM

Heh, dos diabolitas :)