Speaking today about why she thinks she's more qualified to be president, Hillary Clinton alleged that Edwards and Obama would need to get "up to speed" on foreign policy and that she would not. She compared supporting her challengers with supporting Bush.
"It is tempting any time things seem quieter for a minute on the international front to think that we don't need a president who is up to speed on foreign affairs and military matters," Clinton said.
"Well, that's the kind of logic that got us George Bush in the first place," she said to laughter from her friendly audience at a high school auditorium. "Experience in foreign affairs is critical for ending the war in Iraq, averting war in Iran, negotiating a Middle East peace and dealing with North Korea."
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Four questions for Hillary:
(1) How can we trust you to fulfill your diplomatic promises when you are afraid of being "used for propaganda"?
Hillary Clinton said that she would not engage in diplomacy as agressively as Obama because she might get herself used for propaganda.
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"I’m not afraid of losing the PR war to dictators. I’m not going to hide behind a bunch of rhetoric. I don’t want a continuation with Bush-Cheney. I don’t want Bush-Cheney light. I want a fundamental change."
--Obama
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(2) Is it because you're afraid of being used for propaganda that you and Bill hatched that half-baked plan for him and Bush 41 to do a world tour?
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(3) Does being ready to lead right away mean not breaking with the neocon, preconditions-based approach to diplomacy?
Following the youtube debate, a link from Charles Krauthammer was posted on a Clinton campaign website, hillaryhub.com. The Clinton campaign touted the praise of neoconservatives for her approach to diplomacy. She also won high marks from William Kristol for attacking Obama's rejection of the preconditions-based approach.
In Hillary's defense, however, she's waffled a bit on her early strong statements in favor of continuing the neocon approach.
(4) And last but not least: Were you "up to speed" when you voted to give George W Bush the authority to invade and occupy Iraq without reading all of the intelligence available to you? Were you "up to speed" when you rubber-stamped the Bush intel cited in K-L before that NIE was released and without holding hearings?
Of course, Hillary Clinton's critics are invisible to her, so I don't expect an answer to these questions. The fact is, there aren't any good answers for her because Hillary is a fraud running a fear-based campaign because she's got nothing else. Her most recent attempt to scare voters away from Obama and Edwards is a joke given her track record of judgment failures on foreign policy. Shit, at least Edwards has good judgment in hindsight (although it would have been nice if he'd backed up Obama on breaking with the neocon, preconditions-based approach to diplomacy instead of piling on).