Posted on 12/05/2014 10:35:07 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, FOX NEWS HOST: Listen to this. Former secretary of state and potential presidential candidate, Hillary Clinton, speaking at a foreign policy conference and saying this:
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HILLARY CLINTON, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: This is what we call smart power, using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security, leaving no one on the sidelines, showing respect even for one's enemies, trying to understand and, insofar as psychologically possible, empathize with their perspective and point of view, helping to define the problems to determine the solution. That is what we believe, in the 21st century, will change, change the prospects for peace.
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VAN SUSTEREN: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North joins us.
Just to back up a little bit, she was making a reference to a dispute that two women settled in the Philippines that's been going on for a number of years. Nonetheless, that's what she said.
LT. COL. OLIVER NORTH, FOX HOST, WAR STORIES: Those words coming out of someone who intends to become commander-in-chief are not just naive and utopian, it's irrational. Consider, we are supposed to be using smart power. Sounds more like, to me, we have no power. And that isn't smart to say as a candidate. And I can't think of a presidential candidate who said those kinds of things.
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The GOP elite will be to timid to call her on this outrageous statement! We are indeed in dire straits!
Said Hill after her third shot of Wild Turkey. :=)
Yes, abandoning state consulates/missions/ambassador
Yes, trading 5 terrorists for a deserter
Yes, letting Russia walk over the Urkraine
Yes, abandoning our borders....... Smart power...
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