Posted on 03/08/2008 3:56:33 AM PST by indcons
Samantha Power paid for her "monster" dig by resigning Sunday, but Hillary Clinton's campaign seized on potentially more damaging remarks suggesting Barack Obama might renege on his pledge to pull U.S. troops from Iraq promptly.
Even before the Harvard professor and Obama's chief outside foreign policy adviser stepped down, the Clinton camp was gleefully circulating another interview where Power called Obama's 16-month withdrawal plan "the best-case scenario."
"[Obama] will, of course, not rely on some plan that he's crafted as a presidential candidate or a U.S. senator," Power told the BBC in what the Clinton campaign flagged as eyebrow-raising remarks.
"He will rely upon a plan - an operational plan - that he pulls together in consultation with people who are on the ground to whom he doesn't have daily access now, as a result of not being the President," she said.
Aides to Hillary Clinton jumped all over those comments, charging in a hastily planned conference call that it was an example of more empty words by Obama.
"The impression that one thing is said for political purposes perhaps and another thing is what's actually going to happen, is amateur hour on making foreign policy," said Clinton foreign policy adviser Jamie Rubin, a State Department spokesman in the Clinton administration.
"On foreign affairs, in particular, words matter," Rubin added. "He can't seem to run a foreign policy team the way it's supposed to run."
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark added that Power's Iraq comments were "quite disturbing."
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We know who the stooges were that worked for Bill but I have a feeling even more incompetent stooges will be called on board for B-HO.........
Obama and Hillary do not have a clue on what to do over there. They are both spewing BS to the voters....It is what the voters want to hear. Those voters have no clue what is best for our nation. But hey they give these idiot candidates votes for taking over the highest office and making a big name for themselves.
A “renege” ‘eh? Sounds like a racist attack to me ;)...
Clinton wrote the book on two-faced BS. She knows it whe she sees it. So do we fortunately.
“I have a feeling even more incompetent stooges will be called on board for B-HO.........”
I heard that they have cloned Madeline Allbright seven times.
The question is, and always has been, what if the "people on the ground that Obama doesn't have access now", tell a President Obama that a hasty draw down will cause regional unrest and endanger the United States interests? Will he go against the promises he made to his anti war (left) backers, or listen to the commanders on the ground? Even leaving a good percent of America wondering about that very question, while listening to his campaign rhetoric is reason enough to give any forward thinking person reason to pause.
Retired Army Gen. Wesley Clark added that Power's Iraq comments were "quite disturbing."
Yeah. Only because they didn't include:
And.....
Even osamaobama, if he becomes President {God forbid} would be smart enough to see what would happen to the ME if we announce that the US will be gone from Iraq on date certain.
It would be like FDR saying on January 1, 1944, that if Germany and Japan don't surrender by December 31, 1944 , the USA will bring all of our troops home.
This Semantha Power is scary on a number of counts. How can someone be a full professor at any school of government with no experience in government? Second, she is, basically, a journalist who writes about genocide and she has been complaining about Arab misdeeds in Darfur. That is to her credit except that neuron one does not fire and stimulate neuron two that connects Arabs, the middle east, Al Qaida and all of the things that she is complaining about.
Instead it is all liberal reflex: state a problem in the world, kick a republican for it. Most of these problems actually happened on Clinton's watch.
More to the point, what about Obama's judgment. Can't he get a foreign policy advisor who has some gravitas, some time in the saddle, even if he is a liberal. Even the Sox Burgler or Notsobright would be better than this.
Obama may well be learning that the President, even as Commander in Chief, doesn’t really get to just do whatever he likes when it comes to the military.
Let’s see,.... don’t know all their names for sure but IMHO
Bill Ayers: SDS and Weatherman Underground
Noam Chomski: A Commie PIG
and the rest would likely from
Calipso Louies Crowd
MOVEON.org
ANSWER
Code Pink
CAIR
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