Posted on 10/07/2007 4:33:21 PM PDT by slowhand520
CLINTON GETS SNIPPY WITH IOWAN OVER IRAN
Chuck Todd
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones NEW HAMPTON, Iowa -- At a campaign stop here, Hillary Clinton sparred verbally for several minutes with a man who pressed her on her recent vote to call Iran's army a terrorist organization. Randall Rolph, from nearby Nashua, asked why he should support Clinton's candidacy when she did not appear to have learned any lessons from having voted to authorize force in Iraq. Clinton thanked him for the question and explained her Iran vote would lay the groundwork for using diplomacy and sanctions to pressure that government. Clinton accused the man of being a plant who had been sent to ask the question, to which he took exception, saying the question was a result of his own research. "I apologize," Clinton said, explaining that she had been asked the very same question in three other places. The crowd applauded when the senator ended the back and forth by saying the two had a disagreement and offering to put Rolph in touch with her staff, who could provide him with the text of the legislation, which she suggested he had misunderstood. After taking several more questions, Clinton ended by saying she valued these kinds of conversations and urging Iowans to support her in the caucuses. "I'm taking nothing for granted," she said. "I hope I'll be able to earn your support." Rolph said after the event that he was a registered Democrat who had come with an open mind but that he would not be supporting Clinton after the way she responded. "Who in this room believes we aren't going to attack Iran before Bush leaves office?" Rolph said.
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And if you're going to accuse someone without evidence, don't apologize in the next breath - unless you want people to see there is nothing of substance to your opinions.
If this guy was a plant, it was to help Hillary by making her look moderate and tough on terrorism.
I’m a little surprised at, well, a LOT of the posts on this thread. Maybe because I actually read the article! This guy was a commie nutjob who thought we should roll over and play dead for Iran and have kept out of Iraq. The legislation she’s being criticized for here allows Bush to take a harder line against Iran.
The more these moveon type morons attack Hillary for being too much of a warmonger, the more appealing she appears to uninformed voters.
They should have just tazed the bro and been done with it.
yeah-and stays out of Ft Marcy park.
Thanks for posting.
Insight into the criminal mind.
Remember how many people voted for algorical and jeankerry...they are ALL Hitliary voters...blind and dumb.
"Feeeeed Meeee!!"
There are a lot like that in this country - they're called "the democrat base".
Good for him! And this “I’ll have my people call your people’ snooty response from the witch is just soooo “Hillary!” When you don’t have a direct answer, cast aspersions on the questioner. One of the many things Hillary can’t do is think on her feet. Trust me, she’ll have her ‘focus group minions’ crafting an answer to this line of questioning before the week is over. I hope someone can ask her about General Petraeus’ comments today about Iran providing more sohisticated weapons to the enemies in Iraq. What would she do about it? Negotiate???? Ask her to comment on the Israeli strike in Syria. See how she tries to dance around that one. She can’t. All she’ll do is flip a switch and call out the “media Matters’ attack crowd to muddy the waters some more. Grrrrrrrrr.
Please explain to me again, ma'am, how a vote to authorize war "would lay the groundwork for using diplomacy and sanctions".
I agree. She cant save herself from herself.
“Who in this room believes we aren't going to attack Iran before Bush leaves office?” Rolph said.
Doesn't his second statement indicate that his first statement is a lie.
I think he is part of the angry Bush hating antiwar hard left. Just like the White House Press core they don’t ask questions because they are not looking for an answer they don’t want to know what the President thinks they want to tell the President and the audience what they think.
Sanctions? I thought they were the cause of all the "ills" among Iraq's poor and children. < /s >
And they've done wonders to put Fidel Castro in his place. < /s >
I believe he WAS a plant so that she could claim to be more “moderate” in her stance. Good cop/Bad cop/
With this crowd, who can you believe? They lie about the origins of their names, phony ancestors who never fought, starving children, being sung to sleep with “Look for the Union label”...
Not just the armed forces.
Sister Souljah.
Don’t the Clintons have any new plays in the playbook for this go-round?
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