Clinton heightens terrorism rhetoric

Wow, that is a scare-mongering tactic right out of the Republican playbook. Clinton must be terrified of Obama right now.

And hopefully not cry when the going got tough. What a phony! How stupid do you really take the electorate to be Hillary? Enough already.

My God, the Clinton dynasty is going donw in flames today. Just look at today's stories: "Hilary is tougher than Nelson Mandella," " Hilary tears up over how tough the campaign is ," "We'll be attacked by the terrorists, I'm ready, what's his name isn't," and, just for fun, "Bill and Hil share cell phone moment." Note to Mark Penn, need to coordinate contrived reality better. You can't say Hilary is tougher than Mandella, ready to deal with the terrorists, and have her get choked up over a question about how she keeps campaigning. It is ok to lose an election -- these things happen. Please, Bill and Hilary, lots of us still love -- even though we are voting for Obama -- so we want you to leave the stage with your dignity intact.

Let’s not forget you’re hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down.”

****My goodness fear mongering from HClinton,I guess Americans haven't been scared enough,what's next from the Clinton slimey clique.Go shopping even though you are broke ?It's time for change folks.

The last time I heard that line it was coming out of the mouths of Bush and Cheney in `04 versus Kerry.

Yuck.

Hillary should and can be above comparing Obama to Bush and now this crap. I am embarassed for my intelligent friends who supported her and disappointed that the first woman candidate has sunk this low. Sad, indeed. Let the caring and support for birth Africans who are now American citizens bleed into this country on the part of Bill and Hillary. Rhetoric is no longer sufficient. Support the Obama for president instead of insulting him and fighting him. If you can't win on your own charisma, competence and campaign tactics, step aside, ma'am.

but people are shocked she'd say this? I just don't see how this helps her argument: if you think she's better equiped than obama or edwards, then you'll assume that applies in cases of terrorism on US soil.

if you don't, then she's simply blathering.

but it is, at base, fear-mongering. so not cool.

Hillary is not fear-mongering, she's making a legitimate point. Do you really want someone with almost no foreign policy experience walking into the Oval Office and have no clue how to deal with these situations? Hillary has the experience and know-how from her 8 years in the White House as First Lady.

Wow. So not only is Hillary Clinton telling me that my dreams for a better America are "false hopes," but now she's reading Dick Cheney's campaigning Cliff Notes -- raise the specter of a terrorist attack to literally scare up votes. This is a depressing coda for the Clinton legacy.

On the same day that Hillary publicly cries over frustration about her quest for the nomination to become President, she tells us that as President she will be composed enough to deal with an imminent or actual terrorist attack. Hmmmm....... Is their a disconnect somewhere here?

SJN,
What *specifically* would she do differently in this situation from what Obama or Edwards would do? Saying she has "experience" in this area is, by itself, close to meaningless, because people draw differing conclusions from similar experience. By contrast, saying, "From my experience in this area, I would tend to take steps A, B, and C; and I learned one shouldn't take steps D, E, and F, because ..." might indeed be persuasive -- or not -- depending on the quality of the reasoning used in making such a decision. In the end, experience matters here less than knowledge, the ability to incorporate new information into one's thinking, and, especially, judgment. Clinton's hawkish foreign-policy judgment seems to me worse than her that of her rivals. I'm open to being persuaded otherwise, but invoking experience alone doesn't accomplish that; it only succeeds in being shallow and a bit condescending to voters.

"Hillary is not fear-mongering, she's making a legitimate point. Do you really want someone with almost no foreign policy experience walking into the Oval Office and have no clue how to deal with these situations? Hillary has the experience and know-how from her 8 years in the White House as First Lady".

I think the white house chef has over 12 years experience in the white house . He must then be better qualified to be prez then Hitllary.

She's been doing her homework. Next she'll be saying if we don't vote for her we arn't patriotic.

"Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ...Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

- Hermann Goering, Luftwaffe Commander, From his cell at Nuremberg Trials 1946
- from Nuremberg Diary by G M Gilbert (Signet, New York, 1947)

Yeah, she's got experience. She's one of the women who slept with President Clinton. Oh, and she's been a senator of little national note, just like Edwards and Obama.

Nothing BUT Fear mongering! Why would Muslims attack the man who ousted Bush and who's middle name is Hussein?

Stick a fork in her... shes' done.

14: LOL! He probably "makes cookies" too (nothing like comfort food in a time of national crisis). So...Edwards/White House Chef? White House Chef/Edwards? Obama/White House Chef...'08?

funny how she's going for the terrorism vote, when S.C. voters have overwhelmingly given that issue to Obama.

Obama 65%
Clinton 13%

Hillary Clinton is simply ensuring more votes go to the movement which is Obama. Her fear mongering makes her no better than Bush and Cheney. It is time for her to step aside. The people want an ethical leader who can inspire. She is not that person, Obama is.

So, she'll what, throw a lamp at them?

Hillary didn't say you're wrong for having dreams - she's saying Obama is promising hope that he can't deliver on. Is that that hard to understand?

With every president we're electing someone who may have to deal with war, terrorist attacks, economic crisis, natural disaster, trade battles, etc. It's part of the job.

Blame it on the common citizens. Hillary is using what worked in the last election for Chimpy McFlightsuit. Until people can start seeing through this fearmongering balderdash, it will continue to be recycled.

Crying over some ill-defined hard time she's having on the campaign trail certainly won't make Hillary look tough in the eyes of Bin Laden.

SJN,
how is being in the white house as first lady gave her foreign policy experience?
By travelling with Sinbad, an entertainer, to Bosnia?
What about Chelsea? Does she have foreign policy experience as well, then?

Today, one day before the voting in NH, Hillary bused in and paid expenses for people from New York to pack her appearances for the benefit of NH voters and for the C-Span cameras. She became emotional at a luncheon today expressing how much she cares about this country and the Media played it repeatedly throughout the day as if we wouldn’t remember how she cold heartedly supported Bush's war up to the beginning of this year. 80% of her speeches are misinformation to distort Senator Obama's record or to mock his message of hope. The damaging e-mails against Obama from her campaign, disingenuously apologized for, still circulate across America. Now she's enacting a politics of fear.

Hillary Clinton is the last person I want to be in charge when there is a terrorist attack.

Again, another move right out of the Karl Rove playbook. If people want to know how effective she would be against REAL terrorism, (not the hyped 'their under every rock and bush--be very VERY scared' neocon version of terrorism), one has to simply remember how she voted for the Iraq war taking our focus off Afghanistan, and how she called Barack Obama 'naive and irresponsible' when he said he would go after al Queda if there were credible actionable intelligence they were about to strike. (Now, of course, every candidate who criticized him is using his words as if they were their own..Hillary included)

If anyone wants to know who will be more effective at foreign policy, look at the foreign policy experts that all endorse Obama.

Distorting Obama's record, spinning an experience claim that falls flat under even minimal scrutiny, playing the fear card (the gender card, the race card, the madrassa card, the kindergarden card, ....), changing her positions with the wind, changing her 'image' by the week, crying for the cameras in one breath and attacking her opponent with the next, planting questions, staging events..... I mean really, just why is this woman even being considered a credible candidate at all?

Hillary's quote illustrates what happens when PR flacks assume positions of power. American doesn't need a President who is ready for terrorism; we have that already. Bush stands ready to take political advantage of any terrorism. What American needs is a President who wants America to be prepared, rather than merely entertained. George doesn't do preparation. Don't read that wrong. Preparation doesn't imply a military answer. The answer is supportive long term international relationships, not intentional (and unintentional) destabilization that Rice and Cheney sell as being good for the US.

That would be swell. Hil and Bill again,instead of Bill and Hil. What's the diff? Remember ,two for the price of one? Just like the old days. Except one has already been impeach. I know that's a minor factoid. It's like puting on an old show again..except it still has a hole in it.

You people reacting to this are hopeless.

Where did Clinton say this?
What was the context?
Who was she speaking to?
Why was the statement made?

We have no information in this blurb and yet most of you people have managed to create their own reality about the statement. I'm in no way a Clinton supporter, but I do support fair, honest and accurate reporting. Something that seriously seems to be lacking in today's media.

Obama is too weak. And inexperienced.

Hillary, for all her flaws, is not weak.

Politics, on the global level, is Machiavellian alligator wrestling.

You want a cunning s.o.b., not a platitudinizing feelgooder.

I'll take Lady Macbeth over a happytalking Hamlet.

If Bush and his cluster of cronies hadn't used terrorism rhetoric so often to try to influence behavior, would these rather direct and reasonable comments from Senator Clinton be considered terrorism rhetoric? I think not. Thanks to G. Dub et. al. we've learned to bristle at anything that sounds like terrorism rhetoric.

Still, I sure hope Clinton doesn't make it a habit.

OK. Let me get my history right.

Hillary Clinton's husband spent a great deal of time courting African Americans -- the "First Black President," if I remember his term. She wants to be the First Woman President. But Hello! An African American has suddenly appeared to challenge her.

Well, apparently that was easy. Trash Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy (it was Lyndon Johnson who made the Civil Rights Act possible, not someone who was just an inspirational speaker -- didn't you know? Or, at least, that's what Hillary Clinton said on national TV). Oh, and then there was that little reference she made on national TV, referring to Obama, that he hadn't done his "spade" work ...

Don't know about anyone else. But I lived the '60's. when a reference to "spade" didn't mean a garden shovel ... And I haven't heard her use that phrase until now.

I assume her campaign has concluded that she will not get the "African American" vote that they originally had counted on. So I guess she's now figured out that the way to make up those lost votes is to appeal, obliquely, to those who hate the "black" vote because of Obama.

I am genuinely tired of hate politics -- whether people hate Republicans, Democrats, blacks, whites -- whatever.

And I'm very sad that Hillary Clinton is taking the things that her husband did do so right and corrupting them for the sake of her own ambitions.

As the woman I am, I wish she'd just start baking those cookies she so distainfully said she didn't do many years ago - and go away.

I heard her comment on terrorism during the Nevada Democratic Debate and I thought it was appropriate in the context it was used. After, critical research and a disdain for arguments based on race, religion, gender, political party, age, and fluffy journalism she has my vote. Obviously, I voted against Bush W and for his father. I live in Illinois and Obama has done nothing here.

I wish the media would actual report the facts.
Whatever happened to real journalism.

Given her "experience" during the prior Clinton Administration, such a comment would confirm my suspicion that with her election (God forbid) it would be a terrorist holiday.

Hillary is doing a great job! Sit back and see where this administration is directing this country. I hate to see it if it were to continue a few more years! We need a change and I believe Hillary Clinton is the perfect person to direct our country into a stronger and powerful nation. She has the experiance and knowledge that Obama lacks.

I am a young, African American student in junior high. I would like to see either Hillary or Obama to win. Hillary could be the first woman president as for Obama, the first African American male.

wow this is very strong

wow this is very strong

As comedian Jackie Mason once said, no one knows where Hillary stands. "She takes this position. She takes that position. Maybe if she took that many positions in the White House, her husband wouldn't have cheated on her.

So few decent comments....dissenting or agreeing with whatever position he/she is with regard to the two dem candidates. One wonderful choice....forget about blogging and the filth that people write, the meanspirited comments about he or she, the utter waste of time I now see when writing a comment, or thought
or opinion. Every single time, a writer of a blog writes, there is always some horrid person who writes, usually with misspelled words, some disgusting comment.
This is my swansong with blogs. I can imagine what this blog will bring...
however, mind this: I will be signing off now and will NEVER READ anyone's reply. that is the joy of this goodbye.