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Hillary Clinton compares Gabrielle Giffords shooting to 9/11 attacks [on TV in Abu Dhabi]
The Telegraph ^ | 1/10/2011 | Richard Spencer, Abu Dhabi

Posted on 01/10/2011 11:02:13 PM PST by bruinbirdman

Said the incident showed America and the Arab world faced similar problems.,p.

In a television broadcast filmed before students in Abu Dhabi, Mrs Clinton was asked why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to colour American views of a whole people.

She replied that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and public servants, and said that the media exaggerated the voices of those who presented hostile views of the Muslim and Arab worlds.

She then raised the shooting at the weekend of the Arizona Democratic congresswoman, Gabrielle Giffords.

"We have extremists in our country," she said. "A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.

"We have the same kinds of problems, so rather than standing off of each other we should work to try and prevent the extremists wherever they are from being able to commit violence."

Ascribing the Arizona shootings to political extremism rather than the work of a mentally deranged loner has already proved controversial, and President Barack Obama avoided doing so directly in his address to the American people afterwards.

Mrs Clinton may be taking an even bigger risk in comparing the attack, even obliquely, to al-Qaeda's war on America.

She was taking part in the first event of a tour of the Middle East aimed at securing continued support for sanctions against Iran and showing American diplomatic commitment to the region. The state department was severely embarrassed by WikiLeaks cables which revealed private conversations between the region's leaders and American diplomats, often contradicting governments' official policies.

The television broadcast took the form of a sit-down interview with three women journalists from Kalam Nawaem, or Sweet Talk, a series loosely based on "The View", an

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To: bruinbirdman
A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.

I hope Hillary was serious about ending her political career after she leaves her position as Secretary of State. If not, this appallingly stupid comment will come back to haunt her.

What an insensitive idiot.

21 posted on 01/10/2011 11:59:15 PM PST by TChad
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To: dead

Are you saying Hill likes to get liquored up? I’ve never heard that.


22 posted on 01/11/2011 12:00:31 AM PST by dennisw (- - - -He who does not economize will have to agonize - - - - - Confucius)
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To: All
A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists an atheist.
23 posted on 01/11/2011 12:08:17 AM PST by Irenic
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To: Eyes Unclouded

“The rate this is going, with Big Sis and her well noted views, just having a screen name on FR will get you on a “extremist” watch list.”

I have regarded that as a given since around 1992.


24 posted on 01/11/2011 12:29:59 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: bruinbirdman

The Secretary of State of the United States of America is in Abu Dhabi doing dog and pony shows for schoolchildren?

How humiliating—for the Hildebeeste and for us.


25 posted on 01/11/2011 12:31:48 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: bruinbirdman

If you stick to her analogy, then the political left are the terrorists given that this guy was a leftist.


26 posted on 01/11/2011 12:36:07 AM PST by highlander_UW (Education is too important to abdicate control of it to the government)
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To: taxtruth; All
This woman is on some type of drug.

Saying Hillary and/or the Left is insane or has taken leave of their senses is a debate ender...and solves nothing. They are not insane, they are evil and have a perspective that is completely appropriate for their nature.

What Hillary is saying is that she does not attribute blame to Muslims for 9/11 but holds the Judeo/Christian world responsible.

The tie that binds the Left and the Islamic world is what is known as the Spirit of the AntiChrist. They both hate the Judeo/Christian world precisely because they hate its God and its Messiah. Whether or not the Left and its Islamic brothers consciously know why they believe as they believe is irrelevant. This is the single salient feature they share...and we have been warned for thousands of years by the Prophets.

27 posted on 01/11/2011 12:40:10 AM PST by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: bruinbirdman
"We have extremists in our country," she said. "A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country."

FU you demagogic old moonbat! Extremism is selling ICBM technology for a couple hundred grand in campaign cash.

28 posted on 01/11/2011 1:16:26 AM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: bruinbirdman
She replied that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and public servants,

Is this a convoluted way of saying there might be a Muslim public servant out there some where who is not a US Citizen? I wonder who she could be referring to? And just who are these public servants(PLURAL!!!!!!)? Can anybody name one besides Keith Elison?

29 posted on 01/11/2011 2:06:07 AM PST by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: FDNYRHEROES
She replied that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and public servants,

It should be further noted that she did not say, "that America was "proud" of its many Muslim citizens and non-Muslim public servants"...

30 posted on 01/11/2011 2:13:03 AM PST by FDNYRHEROES (In just His first 3 days, the War on Terror became the War on Free Speech.)
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To: smokingfrog

[”A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.”

That’s an outright lie.]

You forget that when this piece of work lies, she really only mispeaks.


31 posted on 01/11/2011 2:19:16 AM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Be instrumental in the REVIVAL that will heal our land. ><BCC>)
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To: bruinbirdman
A wonderful and incredibly brave young woman congress member was just shot by extremists in our country.

How very precise of Hildebeest. I guess the shooter were "extremists." Extremely mentally ill.

32 posted on 01/11/2011 2:34:01 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: bruinbirdman

More sloppy thinking from the left.


33 posted on 01/11/2011 2:35:06 AM PST by luvbach1 (Stop Barry now. He can't help himself.)
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To: dila813

She had no chance of being president; look at her. Maybe if we were back in the days of radio.

I wonder if the Arabs of Abu Dhabi think the congresswoman supporting the right to kill an unborn child was the extremist?


34 posted on 01/11/2011 3:30:07 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: bruinbirdman

but the Ft. Attacks..crickets churping by this adminstration for days!!..


35 posted on 01/11/2011 3:57:27 AM PST by JSDude1 (December 18, 2010 the Day the radical homosexual left declared WAR on the US Military.)
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To: smokingfrog

She was shot by a left wing extremist.


36 posted on 01/11/2011 4:19:52 AM PST by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: bruinbirdman

Good, now we never have to worry about her running for president. She just killed any chance of that. OOOPS I used the word “killed” that means I’m a right winger out to commit mayhem.


37 posted on 01/11/2011 4:40:11 AM PST by McGavin999 ("I was there when we had the numbers, but didn't have the principles"-Jim DeMint)
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To: Eyes Unclouded
"The rate this is going, with Big Sis and her well noted views, just having a screen name on FR will get you on a “extremist” watch list."

Very true and very effective due to the fact the tens of millions eat up this emotional garbage. Clinton and the rest know they are full of feces, but emotion always trumps logic and reason with the populous. Heck, the Founders were only able to peel-off a fraction of the populous. France saved the Revolution, those guys would have been swinging by their necks and British North America would had been left intact.
38 posted on 01/11/2011 4:52:32 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians)
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To: bruinbirdman
re: why the 9/11 terror attacks, the work of a handful of men, had been allowed to colour American views of a whole people

The correct answer is this ‘handful of men’ claimed to be doing the will of, and on behalf of, their religion and no one from the religion spoke out to condemn their actions or discredit their claims.

Any other response is spin, ingenious and just plain BS.

IMHO

39 posted on 01/11/2011 5:46:15 AM PST by jwparkerjr (It's the Constitution, Stupid!)
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To: dead

An impressive collection of photos of her heinous.


40 posted on 01/11/2011 7:00:06 AM PST by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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