Posted on 03/10/2015 6:09:53 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Hillary Clinton lambasted Senate Republicans who penned a letter aimed at undermining President Barack Obama's nuclear negotiations with Iran, calling the move "out of step with the best traditions of American leadership."
The Democratic frontrunner for the 2016 presidential campaign told reporters at the United Nations on Tuesday that "one has to ask, what was the purpose of this letter?"
"There appear to be two logical answers," Clinton said. "Either these senators were trying to be helpful to the Iranians or harmful to the commander-in-chief in the midst of high-stakes international diplomacy. Either answer does discredit to the letter's signatories."
Her comments come after 47 Senate Republicans signed a controversial letter to Iran warning the country's leaders that a lasting nuclear deal would have to be approved by Congress.
Sen. Tom Cotton, who spearheaded the letter, said Tuesday he'd "welcome" presidential candidates to join the letter's signatories. And Cotton said he would welcome "even Hillary Clinton," the presumptive Democratic presidential frontrunner, to join the effort.
"I suspect she might have reservations about this ill-fated nuclear deal with Iran as well," Cotton said on CNN's New Day...
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I wish he(Tom Cotton) was my senator too! I got Boxer and Feinstein.
You have my sympathy.
As usual for a Bolshie, she offered alternate reasons for the letter, not helping a Bolshie pres__ent or helping the mullahs, neither of them correct. Typically, a Bolshecrat set of false choices. She needs to promise that when she is President she will follow through on the deal.
including the one with the 10 year restriction on the table. In other words, Obama is guaranteeing Iran the right to have nukes.
Hillary doesn’t have a cankle to stand on.
Exactly. She was so sucking up to Obama. He knows where all of the skeletons in her closet are, and her ol’ man’s. He could torpedo her candidacy tomorrow if he liked, and may well do so.
“He could torpedo her candidacy tomorrow if he liked, and may well do so.”
Maybe he has. Do we really know the source of the email story.
Says the woman who declared “BUSH KNEW!” (about 9-11) from the floor of the Senate in February 2002.
Her replacement at Sec. of State (acting as an agent of the anti-war movement) negotiated with the North Vietnamese during the war.
Love your name. Is there a buckfarry on FR?
Some time ago, I searched the web for the Hillary “Bush knew” photo, with her holding the newspaper. Never found it. Guess they got successfully managed to get it scrubbed off the net.
google scrubbed a lot of their search content.
And yahoo turns much the same results these days.
It’s all about OIL!!!!
(Worked For them, once; now, use against ‘ em.)
I hope to be the first je cuser!
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