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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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61. ATHEIST
OK, Ken, I give up.
What is your point?
You keep re-posting my previous comments.
WHY?
My comments are already posted. Do you get some thrill about taking statements out of context?
William Hays at 2:12PM on Feb 14th 2008
62. Mr. Hayes: re post #56
whoa.... "MY POINT WAS"
isn't this double speak?
your words are there in black and white and they are what they are.
tell me: if you had the chance, would you post them AGAIN....in ANY...context???
Big Brother is Listening and so are the rest of us bloggers.
Doubting Thomas at 2:14PM on Feb 14th 2008
63. Mr. Hays,
if their posted out of context: please do us all the favor of putting it right.
the burden is on you.
don't give up.
Ken at 2:17PM on Feb 14th 2008
64. William Hays is right and correct in his description of what christianity does to intelligence.
It's an automatic lowering of the IQ. Even worse if they don't accept evolution by natural selection. William calls it "dumbing down".
Linda at 2:25PM on Feb 14th 2008
65. Linda, you're deflecting:
yes or no:
do you fully agree and support the thoughts that christianity should be erradicated and that they are the enemy and that you want to stop them?
yes or no
otherwise, it's all just words and hot air.
these blogs are nothing more than idle conversatios
enjoy!
Doubting Thomas at 2:32PM on Feb 14th 2008
66. oh, and these blogs are filled with people who try protect a bully named Mr. William Hays.
(why does anyone think this man needs protecting from a "dumbed-down, dim-witted Christian")??
oops: Let's Go for the Correct Answer:
because the dimwits actually have a point and Mr. Hays can't do anything else but get around it,
though, it's quite a miracle that he even admits:
"I give up"
so, you see, there IS a God...
Doubting Thomas at 2:32PM on Feb 14th 2008
67. Floyd, my man:
you're needed again: Mr. Hays and Linda are deflecting
make them say yes or no.
Doubting Thomas at 2:35PM on Feb 14th 2008
68. 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
xxx
nice fantasy. If it ever happens for real we'll know and it will be scientists not theologians who bring you this revelation.
Clif Kuplen at 2:39PM on Feb 14th 2008
69. 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
---
Thou shalt not purgeth thy loins of thy fetus.
Psalms, I think
mac at 2:40PM on Feb 14th 2008
70. You are such a misogynist. What about George Bush screwing up the entire country? Biggest screw up in history...the country is bankrupt, more of our rights are taken every day and you just love pouncing on Hillary Clinton. At least Hillary Clinton cares about people having medical care...George Bush would have us lie bleeding on the steps of the hospitals.
Patricia at 2:49PM on Feb 14th 2008
71. ATHEIST
Reply to: yes or no: do you fully agree and support the thoughts that christianity should be erradicated and that they are the enemy and that you want to stop them?
__________
Obviously, my answer is YES.
I posted those comments for a reason.
We've reached the point where Christianity HURTS children. Dumbs them down. Makes them have nightmares about Demonic Possession and a Day of Judgment.
The idea that a God is going to PUNISH people for sin is nonsense.
________________
Reply to: tell me: if you had the chance, would you post them AGAIN....in ANY...context???
I would post them again in THIS context.
Why wouldn't I? What is your point?
Christianity was based on the PREDICTION that the world was going to end before 120 AD. The world did not end as Jesus predicted.
Why wouldn't I say that again?
William Hays at 2:47PM on Feb 14th 2008
72. THe Clintons did it!!!! the Clintons did it!!!!!!Anything bad that has happened the last seven years has been blamed on the Clintons. Wake up!!!! Bush is the biggest screwup this nation has ever known. The fundamentalists don't see this because he is "born again".
Richard Quiggle at 4:02PM on Feb 14th 2008
73. ATHEIST
reply to: 66. oh, and these blogs are filled with people who try protect a bully named Mr. William Hays.
As opposed to...
A sadistic bully called God who intends to confine all who reject Christ...
... to a fiery pit...
... created to punish the angels who followed Lucifer in a rebellion against God...
... for eternal torment???
My point is, there's a BIG difference between posting on a message board and actually torturing people with fire.
for an eternity.
Who is protecting a bully? Put my statements back into context of a Cult that preaches eternal torment for those who don't join up. Grow up and THINK.
William Hays at 2:51PM on Feb 14th 2008
74. Mr. Hays,
so, those words were NOT taken out of context, then?
I don't see you "putting it right"
and, honestly: you are IN NO POSITION to be asking any more questions.
especially, since you don't answer yours.
seems like the Christians have "gotcha"
(the only one hurting anyone here is YOU: with your lies, your deceptions, your hate speech, your bullying, your half-witted pscyho-science-babble)
TO THEE I BID:
GET THEE BEHIND ME SATAN!
Doubting Thomas at 2:55PM on Feb 14th 2008
75. William Hays, thank you sir! I truly enjoy reading your always on-the-mark comments.
I am always amazed at how dogshit-dumb most of these whacky religious posters are. Keep on rubbin' their noses in it!
Doubting Thomas and/or Ken: Both of you wear your ignorance like a badge.
Mojomantra at 3:08PM on Feb 14th 2008