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Clinton Says She'd Give Up Some Powers
Brietbart ^ | 10/23/07 | staff

Posted on 10/23/2007 11:16:00 AM PDT by teddyballgame

NEW YORK (AP) - If elected president in 2008, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton would consider giving up some of the executive powers President Bush and Vice President Cheney have assumed since taking office. In an interview published Tuesday in Guardian America, a Web site run by the London-based Guardian newspaper, Clinton denounced the Bush Administration's push to concentrate more power in the White House as a "power grab" not supported by the Constitution.

Asked if she would consider giving up some of those powers if she were president, Clinton replied, "Oh, absolutely ... I mean, that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that."

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To: Hemorrhage
Any chance she’ll give up all executive powers?

Perhaps she'll give some concessions after pardoning Mumia......

41 posted on 10/23/2007 11:57:26 AM PDT by gunservative
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To: teddyballgame

SCARY, ISN’T IT?

AND NOW . HOW ABOUT A LITTLE QUIZ?

A little history lesson: If you don’t know the answer make your best guess.
Answer all the questions before looking at the answers. Who said it?

1) “We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the
common good.”

A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above

2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the
few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared
responsibility for shared prosperity.”

A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C Idi Amin
D. None of the Above

3) “(We)...can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means
something has to be taken away from some people.”

A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above

4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires
people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common
ground.”

A. Mao Zedong
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above

5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”

A. Karl Marx
B Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above

6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become
the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being
watched.”

A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above

Answers:

(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton
9/2/2005


42 posted on 10/23/2007 11:59:26 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: holden

thinking anti-Christ = Hildabeast !!!


43 posted on 10/23/2007 11:59:59 AM PDT by xtinct (I was the next door neighbor kid's imaginary friend.)
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To: Hemorrhage
By answering the questioner, it said it would absolutely be willing to consider giving up Executive Powers it argues are unsupported by the Constitution.

Isn't it obvious that even if she's right that President Bush has taken up unconstitutional powers, no moral reflex, urge or compass will cause her to renounce out-of-hand (even as a lawyer, an officer of the court) doing likewise?

She'll consider doing otherwise. Oh, yes, absolutely!

HF

44 posted on 10/23/2007 12:00:27 PM PDT by holden
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To: teddyballgame

She Who Must Not Be Named will “consider” giving up executive power? Right. And I’ll consider voting for her. I don’t think either even will last more than a nanosecond.


45 posted on 10/23/2007 12:01:07 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: teddyballgame

But she would maintain the tradition, just as every President before her, of peeing standing up.


46 posted on 10/23/2007 12:01:15 PM PDT by whatexit
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To: teddyballgame

No way will the hildebeast give up anything. To even think in that direction is utter stupidity.


47 posted on 10/23/2007 12:04:22 PM PDT by lilylangtree (Veni, Vidi, Vici)
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To: GYPSY286
Notice how Hillarious Hillary talks - using WHEN, not IF as if her winning is a given

That's exactly why liberals go off the deep end when they don't win elections. They deeply believe their own BS.
48 posted on 10/23/2007 12:11:09 PM PDT by Beckwith (dhimmicrats and the liberal media have .chosen sides -- Islamofascism)
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To: bobwoodard
...that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that."

Emphasis mine. She's claiming an "intention" to undertake a "review", not to give up anything. Yale Law School and husband Bill taught her well.   

49 posted on 10/23/2007 12:17:28 PM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Kill the terrorists, secure the borders, and give me back my freedom.)
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To: teddyballgame

All fine and good, but will she give up the broomstick?


50 posted on 10/23/2007 12:17:54 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed ... ICE’s toll-free tip hotline —1-866-DHS-2-ICE ... 9/11 .. Never FoRGeT)
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To: teddyballgame

Ya, she’d give up some power alright, directly to the UN.


51 posted on 10/23/2007 12:18:25 PM PDT by diverteach
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To: andy58-in-nh

Exactly. I spotted the ‘it’<->’that’ wording, but that was after I hit post (of course, right?). You’re correct about Bill, after all, he is the one who questioned the meaning of the word ‘is’.


52 posted on 10/23/2007 12:41:27 PM PDT by bobwoodard
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To: teddyballgame
Clinton replied, "Oh, absolutely ... I mean, that has to be part of the review that I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that."

Clinton-speak. She will say anything that she thinks furthers her effort to win the Oval Office.

Give up power? Yeh, right. This from the lady who has a million ideas that we cannot afford.
53 posted on 10/23/2007 1:05:18 PM PDT by TomGuy
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