Let’s face it: Hillary Clinton’s State tenure has been a failure
American foreign policy under Secretary Clinton has been one disaster after another. Even if you don’t think she deserves blame for all of them — or even most of them — it defies common sense that her tenure can be called a success.
Let’s review:
America’s relations with its two main allies in the Middle East — Israel and Egypt — have gotten worse during her tenure.
In Egypt, we lost a reliable ally, Hosni Mubarak, and gained a new president, Mohammed Morsi, backed by the radical Muslim Brotherhood after the White House belatedly supported the Tahir Square uprisings. Morsi is a fundamentalist who believes the Egyptian should “nurse our children and grandchildren on hatred” towards Israel and is now acting to consolidate power. Even Obama has conceded Egypt is not really an ally anymore. We’re still giving them arms though.
Relations between the US and Israel have deteriorated, with the bad blood between President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu being pretty public. The administration hasn’t even tried to revive the stalled Israel-Palestine peace negotiations.
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She has set a new record for daily intoxication by a federal official though.
trs on January 25, 2013 at 9:44 AM
It’s true, she does wear beer goggles all the time now.
Difficultas_Est_Imperium on January 25, 2013 at 9:48 AM
When someone swoons for Hillary just ask what her single greatest accomplishment as SOS is. That should shut them up.
tommyboy on January 25, 2013 at 9:55 AM
La la la Hillary is awesome
-lsm
cmsinaz on January 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM
Don’t forget… she’s only doing her master’s bidding.
(Although she does add her own flair for FAIL…)
CPT. Charles on January 25, 2013 at 9:56 AM
Her wine tasting tour through Australia right after the Benghazi attack was a success, Killary was able to choose 3 out of 5 wines correctly during a blind tasting.
Bishop on January 25, 2013 at 9:59 AM
перегрузкаGingotts on January 25, 2013 at 10:00 AM
So the old “Reset” button didn’t work? What a shock.
RoadRunner on January 25, 2013 at 10:01 AM
She single-handedly landed a fighter jet under heavy enemy fire.
That was before her SOS gig, but still.
mudskipper on January 25, 2013 at 10:04 AM
Being able to drink all your foriegn counterparts under the table isn’t really anything to brag about. There comes an age when you quit being a “party animal” and become a “drunk”. Hill passed that line some time ago.
tommyboy on January 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Well, at least she hasn’t had a sex scandal as SoS. I guess that’s a positive.
Nethicus on January 25, 2013 at 10:07 AM
Not until her aid Umma rights her memoirs.
trs on January 25, 2013 at 10:13 AM
Pretty much everything about this Presidency has been a failure. But, he got elected anyway. I guess we can thank our culture’s unwillingness to tell anyone that they’ve failed or done anything wrong. We tell people that all decisions are equal. Heck, schools don’t even use red pens on grading anymore to avoid the hurt feelings. This will not end well.
besser tot als rot on January 25, 2013 at 10:15 AM
I believe she has had a mild stroke and she and her handlers have been lying about it from the get go. The glasses for correcting double vision in one eye? Not forthcoming about why she was in the hospital for so long? She needs to go.
Blake on January 25, 2013 at 10:24 AM
Paging chumpThreads to “debunk” this…please come out and play!
Del Dolemonte on January 25, 2013 at 10:26 AM
chump’s great-grandfather UTAH Bill, in the linked comments, does his part:
Del Dolemonte on January 25, 2013 at 10:28 AM
I hear she’s going to build a bridge across the twin peaks of Kilimanjaro.
The Rogue Tomato on January 25, 2013 at 10:46 AM
FWIW, I found that absolutely hilarious! Thanks for the flashback.
Nethicus on January 25, 2013 at 11:08 AM
It’s been pretty much a disaster but is she even in charge of foreign policy? She seems like a bit player – they wheel her out for drinking games and thats about it.
CorporatePiggy on January 25, 2013 at 11:14 AM
What difference does it make? For aspiring Democrat candidates for POTUS, failure is a feature, not a bug.
Christien on January 25, 2013 at 11:21 AM
Sean, you don’t get it do you? Perception matters. Whether you like it or not, Hillary has a massive approval rating, much higher than the Divider himself. You’d be categorized as a whiner, whether you’re entirely correct or not. As I said, perception matters.
tommy71 on January 25, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Even Rubio joins the chorus of praise. DC politicians are all a mess. Sure wish we could throw them all out and start over.
Christian Conservative on January 25, 2013 at 11:54 AM
Well, to be fair, one “poll” in the past 6 weeks does not a consensus make, especially one done
1. by the Washington comPost and ABC “News”
2. and done by them before this week’s sneering Hillary testimony.
The only other “polls” re. Hillary’s approval came in early December of 2012, and one of those had her at 59%.
http://pollingreport.com/C2.htm#Hillary
Del Dolemonte on January 25, 2013 at 12:15 PM
Agreed and I rejoice in it. Only by the grace of God does it appear that cHillary is running out of time, health and energy to make it into the WH. She can’t “run” for office, but she’ll go for it if the MSM will hand-carry her, a la Cleopatra.
And she’ll never repeat the line about answering that 3am call, because if that happens, she’ll have to change her depends post haste.
How can both verses be true of the righteous? Same way the founding fathers came to found this country. Keep going progressive heatheans and there will be a backlash, painfully so for you more than us.
AH_C on January 25, 2013 at 2:37 PM