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Hillary: Don't Elect Obama -- Al-Qaida Is Watching
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| Monday, January 7, 2008 10:55 PM
Posted on 01/07/2008 8:07:53 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
Hillary Clinton on Monday warned that Al-Qaeda watched US elections, urging Americans not to risk electing an inexperienced president, in her latest implicit swipe at rival Barack Obama.
In one of her most overt plays of the national security card yet, the senator from New York noted that days after Gordon Brown became British Prime Minister, militants planted bombs which failed to explode.
"I don't think it was by accident that Al-Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister," Clinton said here, referring to two devices which did not go off in London and a car which was crashed into Glasgow airport in June.
"They watch our elections as closely as we do ... they play our allies."
The former first lady's comments day before the New Hampshire primary, in which Obama is poised according to opinion polls to inflict a second damaging defeat on her White House campaign, after his Iowa caucuses victory last week.
"Let's not forget, you are hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says he or she will do in an election," Clinton said.
"You are hiring a president who will be here when the chips are down, and problems pile up, because that's when you really need somebody who knows exactly what has to be done, to make the tough decisions."
"I hope I don't face any of those in my first 100 days, but if it do, I think I will be ready," Clinton said.
Clinton has argued that Obama, a 46-year-old freshman senator from Illinois is too inexperienced to serve as US commander in chief, and held up what she says is her own years of experience at the pinnacle of US public life.
Obama has discounted her claims to have foreign policy expertise, and argued that her foreign policy judgement is faulty, after her vote in the Senate in 2002 to authorize President George W. Bush to wage war in Iraq.
Last month, former president Bill Clinton made a pointed reference to the September 11 attacks in 2001, arguing that the next president had to be ready for sudden, national security challenges.
"You have to have a leader who is strong and commanding and convincing enough ... to deal with the unexpected," he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post in New Hampshire.
"There is a better than 50 percent chance that sometime in the first year or 18 months of the next presidency, something will happen that is not being discussed in this campaign," he added.
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To: khnyny
41
posted on
01/07/2008 8:39:54 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: stylin19a
Huh ? Hillary plays the republican ?
Yeah ... that's the funny thing. In trying to get the public focused on experience, specifically foreign policy experience, she's actually making the case for electing McCain*
(*this does not constitute an endorsement of McCain or support for his candidacy ... just that in that one specific area McCain happens to be the candidate on both sides of the race with the most experience).
To: doug from upland
It’s like a spade calling a kettle black...oops, did I just say that?
To: nw_arizona_granny; Calpernia; Cindy; nwctwx; callmejoe; Oorang; Rushmore Rocks; MamaDearest; ...
Last month, former president Bill Clinton made a pointed reference to the September 11 attacks in 2001, arguing that the next president had to be ready for sudden, national security challenges. "You have to have a leader who is strong and commanding and convincing enough ... to deal with the unexpected," he was quoted as saying by the Washington Post in New Hampshire.
"There is a better than 50 percent chance that sometime in the first year or 18 months of the next presidency, something will happen that is not being discussed in this campaign," he added.
44
posted on
01/07/2008 8:46:10 PM PST
by
Velveeta
(Duncan Hunter, 08' !!! The real conservative.)
To: InvisibleChurch
I thought these were the people who said Bush exaggerated all this terrorism stuff. Keep on talking Clintons, you’re exposing your lies every day.
45
posted on
01/07/2008 8:47:27 PM PST
by
Hattie
To: mylife
I can understand your sentiment, but I think it would be better for the stability of the country for the Clintoons to retire than to wreck the political system that our country has in place.
46
posted on
01/07/2008 8:48:45 PM PST
by
khnyny
(Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. Winston Churchill)
To: InvisibleChurch
"I don't think it was by accident that Al-Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister," Clinton said here, referring to two devices which did not go off in London and a car which was crashed into Glasgow airport in June.
"They watch our elections as closely as we do ... they play our allies."
And what did the ever observant Al-Qaeda think when Harry Reid declared the war lost for the United States? What did they think when Hillary doubted the honesty of General Petreus? What did Al-Qaeda think as they watched the Democratic party try to derail the war in Iraq and do everything in their power to trip up President Bush, Dick Cheney, and the US military in their mission?
47
posted on
01/07/2008 8:50:21 PM PST
by
ChessExpert
(Reagan dismantled the Russian empire of 21 conquered nations)
To: potlatch
48
posted on
01/07/2008 8:54:51 PM PST
by
STARWISE
(They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
To: STARWISE
At something, anyhow, lol. Thanks STARWISE!
Half a days work - no pay!!
49
posted on
01/07/2008 8:58:45 PM PST
by
potlatch
("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
To: InvisibleChurch
She speaks the truth for a moment but it’ll do her no good in the primaries.
There is no war on terror, according to the base.
50
posted on
01/07/2008 9:03:32 PM PST
by
sirjohn
To: InvisibleChurch
51
posted on
01/07/2008 9:04:41 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.)
To: InvisibleChurch
" The Clinton administration had as many as four chances to kill or capture bin Laden between December 1998 and July 1999, but all the operations were scuttled because of uncertain intelligence and fears that civilians or dignitaries might be killed. In one example, in May 1999, sources provided detailed reports about bin Laden's whereabouts in the Kandahar area over a period of five nights, but strikes were not ordered because the military was concerned about the accuracy of the reports and the risk of collateral damage, investigators found."
Yes let's go back to the Clinton method...
52
posted on
01/07/2008 9:06:23 PM PST
by
CJ Wolf
To: InvisibleChurch
As I have said before....
If you’re so darn concerned about Al Queda or any other ME third world terroristic country/society, then what do you think they’d do if we had a woman in the White House?
53
posted on
01/07/2008 9:07:38 PM PST
by
BigDaddyTX
(Don't Mex with Texas)
To: InvisibleChurch
Well her arguments against ‘Bama are pretty good, but those same arguments favor any Repub, and not her now.
Thanks Hill
Thompson/Hunter Hunter/Thompson all the way!
54
posted on
01/07/2008 9:07:43 PM PST
by
valkyry1
(Thompson/Hunter Hunter/Thompson all the way!)
To: mylife
I troll DU every day. Most people there dislike or hate her, and her overbearing and snotty supporters are also disliked.
55
posted on
01/07/2008 9:07:55 PM PST
by
sirjohn
To: sirjohn
Yup. I roam the sewer daily myself.
Its funny to watch them.
56
posted on
01/07/2008 9:09:36 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: InvisibleChurch
Hillary: Don't Elect Obama -- Al-Qaida Is Watching...but of course the fact that 'rats including her highness keep pushing for a quick if not immediate pullout of our troops regardless of the situation won't register with Al-Qaida at all......
To: sirjohn
58
posted on
01/07/2008 9:13:22 PM PST
by
mylife
(The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
To: jpf
all of her sound bytes will make great fodder for the republican air campaign...lol
59
posted on
01/07/2008 9:23:08 PM PST
by
Katya
(Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
To: mylife
I’d estimate that not one American in 100 is even aware that there is an ongoing war on terror, and that we continue to be in the cross-hairs of the terrorists.
60
posted on
01/07/2008 9:23:33 PM PST
by
basil
(Support the Second Amendment--buy another gun today!)
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