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Hillary Clinton presents herself as the candidate of "experience." So far this isn't helping her. Why? Because most people realize that her experience is mainly in screwing up.
We all know about Hillary's arrogant attempt to take over one-sixth of the U.S. economy through her nationalized health care scheme. Americans rebelled against this, and Bill Clinton wisely dropped the idea.
Hillary doesn't talk much about that, but she does talk about her foreign policy experience. This is puzzling, because the New York Times reported a few months ago that Hillary didn't have a security clearance and virtually never attended any foreign policy meetings.
But let's say she did. What experience can she claim? Well, the radical Muslims launched a series of devastating attacks against U.S. targets in the 1990s. They bombed the Khobar Towers facility in Saudi Arabia, they attacked two U.S. embassies in East Africa, they launched a suicide attack against the U.S.S. Cole. And what did the Clinton administration do in response? Basically nothing.
Between 1996, when he declared war on America and moved from the Sudan to Afghanistan, Bin Laden was a public figure. He lived in a house provided by Mullah Omar and preached in the local mosque. He granted interviews to the British journalist Robert Fisk, to Peter Arnett of CNN, to John Miller of ABC news, to the Pakistani journalist Abdel Bari Atwan. The Clintons have been saying that they did everything in their power to get Bin Laden, but how could all these journalists so easily locate Bin Laden while the Clinton administration couldn't?
Experience counts when it points to a record of accomplishment. Hillary's experience, to the degree that she was involved at all, has been one of neglecting the threat of radical Islam and consequently emboldening Bin Laden to strike us on 9/11.
If you want to read more about the political and cultural roots of 9/11, my book The Enemy at Home is out in paperback this week.
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Hillary's Experience In Screwing Up
Posted Feb 13th 2008 5:39PM by Dinesh D'Souza
Filed under: Hillary Clinton, 9/11, Bill Clinton
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 10)
1. A response to Dinesh D'Souza's critique of Libertarianism...
http://www.jeffwartman.com/2008/02/in-his-short-book-letters-to-young.html
Jeff Wartman at 6:16PM on Feb 13th 2008
2. Another great post Dinesh!!!! I totally agree! I own Letters to a Young Conservative, What's So Great about America?, and Illiberal Education. You are a true patriot. Keep doing what you're doing!!
Boner-nosed, beanie wearing jew boy at 6:47PM on Feb 13th 2008
3. I think jew boy's nose might be growing a few inches right about now.
Bryan CRT at 7:06PM on Feb 13th 2008
4. Right, D'Souza...
Hillary tried to "take" 1/6 of the economy away from the insurance and pharmaceutical industries.
The AUDACITY!!!
That 1/6 of the economy was jacked by the Nixon Administration in a deliberate and successful effort to enrich the republican party's corporate sponsors.
Captain Negative at 7:07PM on Feb 13th 2008
5. ATHEIST
Reply to: Because most people realize that her experience is mainly in screwing up.
You have more in common with Hillary than you realize.
Mostly, your lack of experience.
I want to elect a President who knows the difference between a Sales Pitch for a Resurrection Cult and a History Book.
Who knows the difference between Fiction and Non-Fiction.
Mike Huckabee is a fool. Hillary is not.
William Hays at 7:10PM on Feb 13th 2008
6. Dinesh
Now just replace Hillarys name with Barack.
Obama is already buckling under the Kennedy strong hold scratch my back and I'll scratch yours
Hillary Climton is a fighter. She'll stand up to the Washington status quo,
annemarie plourde at 7:38PM on Feb 13th 2008
7. Dinesh,
If one were to use your logic Hillary would make a fine president. The same lack of action you write of in this blog is comparable to Bush's not catching Bin Laden.
I'm not very good with math, please help me. How long ago was September 11 2001? Seems long enough to find and apprehend a 7 foot caveman dragging a dialysis machine through the desert. Or is that story another bushism?( bushism is code for his lies)
mac at 7:24PM on Feb 13th 2008
8. Sorry, but I find it difficult to take an anti-Hillary rant seriously when it comes from someone who promotes a book that claims the "cultural left" was responsible for 9/11, who happened to have a great enough lack of class to sleep with Ann Coulter and whose sole purpose in life is the division of a country that he desperately wished he was born into. Wanna evaluate the whole "screwing up" thing again?
emma at 7:30PM on Feb 13th 2008
9. Yes, Mr. Hays. Your logic entirely makes sense. Huckabee is a Christian, therefore, he is a fool. Maybe you should take your head out of your rectum before posting such a hateful comment targeted towards Christians.
Bryan CRT at 7:30PM on Feb 13th 2008
10. Yes, Mr. Hays. Your logic entirely makes sense. Huckabee is a Christian, therefore, he is a fool. Maybe you should take your head out of your rectum before posting such a hateful comment targeted towards Christians.
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Or maybe he's a fool and that's why he is a fundamentalist Christian?
emma at 7:33PM on Feb 13th 2008
11. dinesh
takes one to know one
annemarie at 7:36PM on Feb 13th 2008
12. It's impossible to talk about screwing up without shifting focus to the past two presidential terms.
here are a few - remember?
Your party cuts and runs from wars, raises taxes, borrows from communists to give to billionaires, has bigger governments than democrats, undermines freedom and liberty, runs the national debt into the trillions and gives it all to billionaires, sows domestic discord, outsources jobs of returning war patriots to communists, disregards antitrust legislation, abolishes habeas corpus and the bill of rights, cedes eminent domain to anyone with the bucks, friend or foe, pollutes the environment, sells arms to enemies, opens the borders to mexico, dumbs down the school system to make testing profits, wages war on pretext for profit, fails to capture bin Laden, failed to be prepared for 911, was asleep at the wheel during katrina, uses the Attorney General's office for political vendetta, undermines the secret CIA Iranian weaponizations covert surveillance program for political vendetta, interferes with states rights when convenient, commits torture and destroys the evidence, outsources our port security to a dubai corporation, attempts to merge church and state, goes to war without raising taxes but allows a dubai corporation to profit via no bid cost plus contracts, kills 644,000 Iraqi citizens in two years, eliminates Al Qaeda's greatest middle eastern enemy on our childrens' money borrowed from communists, cages elections, ignores veterans, exploits the military, ignores congressional subpoenas, loses billions in Iraq, attempts to overthrow the New Deal, initiates twice as many signing statements as all other presidents combined and covers up for financial and homosexual scandals in congress.
uh, what was it hillary did again?
Clif Kuplen at 7:42PM on Feb 13th 2008
13. Emma, whether Huckabee is a fool or not does not justify Mr. Hays implication that all Christians are fools.
Bryan CRT at 7:44PM on Feb 13th 2008
14. Maybe you should take your head out of your rectum before posting such a hateful comment targeted towards Christians.
xxx
well maybe he likes to look 'em straight in the eye, pilgrim....
Clif Kuplen at 7:44PM on Feb 13th 2008
15. dinesh you are ridiculous.
there is only ONE person to blame for osama bin laden's actions, and that is osama bin laden.
despite how much i dislike bush and would like to blame him for the attacks on sept 11, that would not be fair or reasonable.
each person's actions are their own responsibility. only the people directly involved in setting up the attack and carrying it out are to blame for what happened.
blamimg what happened on sept 11 on liberals or democrats or anyone other than the terrorists is cowardly on your part.
Richelle at 7:54PM on Feb 13th 2008