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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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46. Ah yes, this from a man who wrote a rasist screed about how the "cultural left" allowed 9/11 to happen. Oh wait, remember when Bill Clinton actually went into Afghanistan? "HE'S TRYING TO DIVERT ATTENTION AWAY FROM MONICA!" the right wing clods all shrieked.
Oh and Health Care? Your hero Richard Nixon made that decision. Once he chose to allow Health Care to be privatized, the Pharma Lobby promptly went out and made down payments on Bentleys.
But what of our current Idiot in Cheif? How about a war in a country totaly unrelated to 9/11? Bin Laden is till out there, laughing 8 years later. Let's go on, shall we...Walter Reed Memorial, "Brownie you're doing a heck of a job," Alberto Gonzalez, "Mission Accomplished," MULTIPLE attempts at a Constitutional Gay Mariage ammendment propasal, uses first Veto to stop valuable medical research, Terri Schaivo, we should teach Intelligent Design, leaks CIA Undercover agent's name, leaks info to prop up war effort that TELLS the enemy how we're listening in, John Bolton's midnight appointment, Downing Street Memo, bye bye Habeous Corpus, hello Abu Grabbe, we don't torture if we don't CALL it torture..., and if you don't like our prisons, we'll just ship you to a place where those pesky activists courts don't care about that quaint old Geneva Convention.
Tell me, how could Hilary possibly be any worse? Other than that God Nazi Clod Mike "Gay = Bestiality" Huckelberry, I can't see anything more stupid than authorizing a continuation of the last eight years of Bush Lies.
Tim at 11:00AM on Feb 14th 2008
47. I agree
Ray at 11:19AM on Feb 14th 2008
48. totally
Ray at 11:20AM on Feb 14th 2008
49. I actually agree with Dinesh about Hillary. How easily we forget about the mess she made the last time she had access to this kind of power. I'm a democrat and I'd rathar have McCain ni the White House than HER,
Strados at 11:43AM on Feb 14th 2008
50. Barack Obama angered fellow Democrats in the Illinois Senate when he voted to strip millions of dollars from a child welfare office on Chicago's West Side. But Obama had a ready explanation: He goofed.
"I was not aware that I had voted no," he said that day in June 2002, asking that the record be changed to reflect that he "intended to vote yes."
That was not the only misfire for the former civil rights attorney first elected to the state Senate in 1996. During his eight years in state office, Obama cast more than 4,000 votes. Of those, according to transcripts of the proceedings in Springfield, he hit the wrong button at least six times.
The rules allow state lawmakers to clear up a mishap if they suffered from a momentary case of stumbly fingers or a lapse in attention. Correcting the record is common practice in the Illinois Legislature, where lawmakers routinely cast numerous votes in a hurry.
But some lawmakers say the practice also offers a relatively painless way to placate both sides of a difficult issue. Even if a lawmaker admits an error, the actual vote stands and the official record merely shows the senator's "intent."
Hey, no big deal. It's not like the biggest, most devastating decision a president could make is represented by the metaphor of "pushing the button."
"Sir, we have outbound ICBMs."
"Relax, President Obama just hit the wrong button."
waldenpond305 at 12:46PM on Feb 14th 2008
51. "Sir, we have outbound ICBMs."
"Relax, President Obama just hit the wrong button."
waldenpond305 at 12:16PM on Feb 14th 2008
xxx
take two:
"Sir, we have outbound ICBMs."
"Relax, President McCain just stroked out and fell on the button."
but it's ok, he decided after talking to the rnc that it was wrong. no, right! no, wrong!! definitely...no, er, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz aak! glurg!
beep beep beep beep beep beep
Clif Kuplen at 12:23PM on Feb 14th 2008
52. "So you won't forget: when religion becomes confrontational with science, religion always loses and science always wins. That's a 100% sure bet."
Well, maybe not 100%.
Robert Jastrow (founding director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies): "For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries."
Tiny Tim at 12:29PM on Feb 14th 2008
53. At least Obama can realize a mistake, admit it, and take the necessary steps to correct it.
K at 12:48PM on Feb 14th 2008
54. wouldn't it be fun to see mike huckabee and larry craig go after each other on jerry springer?
Clif Kuplen at 1:22PM on Feb 14th 2008
55. in reference to post #30
Mr. William Hays, ATHEIST
Atleast Christians and other believers in God do not speak so foolishly as to speak with such boldness and arrogance ---see below---cut and pasted---
now: you can either deny it, talk around it or avoid it.
I kindly suggest you avoid posts like this ever again: it only detracts from your intelligence and credibility and looks even more the fool.
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Reply to: in fact, i hold enough room to believe that it could also be an experience from the evil one, satan. 672. and,William, what scares me is that when the many levitate up into the clouds,
it will be too late for changing one's mind... (end)
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What?
Oh, right. The Creator of the universe is a sadistic bully who won't let anyone change their minds.
don't you recognize a CON GAME? A SCAM?
That's the importance of Atheism. when you learn enough, it becomes obvious when some Nit-wit is trying to manipulate you with a scam.
Just so you know... I think you are the enemy. I don't think you have an open mind. I think you have an agenda. you want to HURT children by making them believe YOUR beliefs are credible.
I want to stop you. I don't like you, and I don't respect you. I think you're a poor excuse for a human being.
Human beings should have more self-respect than to post idiotic comments like, "maybe if the dead were brought back to life, it would actually be satan doing it."
Ken at 1:31PM on Feb 14th 2008
56. in specifics, Mr. Hays: these lines from 2 of your former blog replies:
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...Christianity should be erradicated...
Just so you know... I think you are the enemy. I don't think you have an open mind. I think you have an agenda. you want to HURT children by making them believe YOUR beliefs are credible.
I want to stop you. I don't like you, and I don't respect you. I think you're a poor excuse for a human being.
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Doubting Thomas at 1:52PM on Feb 14th 2008
57. ATHEIST
Reply to: 54. Ken
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Ken, it's not polite to cut-and-paste statements out of context.
Yes, I think Dinesh is starting to understand why we look down on Christians.
I want Dinesh to understand something. The New Testament was written over 1,500 years ago. It's idiotic to say that book has "answers" that are better than modern science, such as Evolutionary Theory.
In the New Testament, we find
JESUS TALKING TO DEMONIC SPIRITS
A DEMONIC SPIRIT CALLS JESUS HOLY ONE OF GOD
ANGELS
GHOSTS OF MOSES AND ELIJAH
RESURRECTION OF DEAD
PIT CREATED TO PUNISH ANGELS
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My point was, IF you were simply to READ the New Testament, you would NEVER assume this was a credible book.
It's obviously a work of FICTION.
Somebody IMAGINED the Creator of the universe having a fiery pit that is used to punish the angels who joined Lucifer's rebellion in heaven.
Don't you SEE this? Why not?
Christianity has dumbed people down... to the point that they don't THINK about what they're reading.
William Hays at 1:53PM on Feb 14th 2008
58. ATHEIST
FOX News: Former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee was one of three GOP candidates who raised their hand during Thursday's debate when asked if they don't believe in evolution _ the development of organisms and species from a primitive state. Huckabee said if given a chance to elaborate on the question from MSNBC moderator Chris Matthews, he would have responded: "If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, I'll accept that....I believe there was a creative process." Huckabee said he has no problem with teaching evolution as a theory in the public schools and he doesn't expect schools to teach creationism. "We shouldn't indoctrinate kids in school," he said. "I wouldn't want them teaching creationism as if it's the only thing that they should teach." Also, students should be given credit for having the intelligence to think through various theories for themselves and come to their own conclusions, he said
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I think Huckabee is a FOOL.
Human beings did NOT come from apes. That is a common statement made by Christians to discredit evolutionary theory.
We shared a common ancestor with apes and other primates. After mapping out the human genome, we know many details about how that happened. Every day, we learn a bit more.
How can a Presidential candidate take a scientific fact, about our own history as a species, and say he wants to teach children NOT to accept it as Truth?
Why is the Republican party limiting itself to dumb Candidates? Are there no BRILLIANT candidates in the Republican party who are willing to stand up to Mike Huckabee and say, "Your Christian faith has made you a fool. Children need to be taught about Evolutionary Theory untainted by religious nonsense like "alternate theories." Based on the analysis of the human genome, there are no credible alternate theories."
McCain is too old. Huckabee is a fool. No matter who the Democrats nominate, they will be a better choice.
William Hays at 2:03PM on Feb 14th 2008
59. post 57 was not verified by the Ken of post 54.
just to keep it honest.
ATHEIST: why don't you post both of those previous replies in full for us?
and,
tell me:
how DO you plan to STOP the ENEMY?
and, don't use the cop out that people just need to get 10% smarter: you're a smart man,
what are the odds of every enemy of yours getting 10% smarter??? (after all, you're a genius, rightt??)
I heard that you're a lawyer--or atleast you were one.
but, luckily, you're not in a court of law:
because your back is against the wall.
though, depending on the judge, you could talk around, deflect, twist,ignore the truth and still win your "case".
Ken at 2:09PM on Feb 14th 2008
60. Christian Tom: show me in the bible where it says you can't have an abortion.
I want to see the passage.
Linda at 2:07PM on Feb 14th 2008