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By haystack Posted in 2008 — Comments (4) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

[hold on there...I said that yesterday, but I didn't say that today!]

So, we hear today that Hillary would use violence against Iran in SPITE of her earlier pandering (er, I mean assurances) to the anti-war crowd insisting she would negotiate with Iran - with NO conditions. And yet she had no problem suggesting Barack 'Democrat of Hope' Obama is naive in opining that he would do the same thing.

Now, I love me some good popcorn and cheap beer theater as I watch these clowns go after each other issue by issue, but really now-which is it love?

In her latest 'Romancing the Libs' novel, Hillary wants us to see her as both tough and soft in matters of foreign policy:

The next U.S. president will have a moment of opportunity to reintroduce America to the world and restore our leadership. To build a world that is safe, prosperous, and just, we must get out of Iraq, rediscover the value of statesmanship, and live up to the democratic values that are the deepest source of our strength.

Of COURSE she wants us to see her as having it both ways...it's something we've seen repeatedly with this Liberal over the years. My question to the Mistress of Liberalism is this: Exactly how do we commingle 'statesmanship and retreat' on the world stage?

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And this nonsense about 'reintroduc[ing] America to the world?" Puh-lease, the world is fairly familiar with us as they stand in line every month at the World bank to cash our checks valued in the billions.

Having just released her Security and Opportunity for the Twenty-First Century paper, she-who-would-be-President suggests this:

"The United States must be stronger, and our policies must be smarter." She laments the record of the Bush presidency: "The tragedy of the last six years is that the Bush administration has squandered the respect, trust and confidence of even our closest allies and friends." She says, "Our friends around the world do not want the United States to retreat. They want once again to be allied with the nation whose values, leadership, and strength have inspired the world for the last century…American leadership is wanting but it is still wanted."

[hand raised again]"Please, m'lady, square that fluff piece with this:"

"We must face up to an unprecedented array of challenges in the twenty-first century, threats from states, nonstate actors, and nature itself." To meet these challenges, "We must learn once again to draw on all aspects of American power, to inspire and attract as much as to coerce." As president, she will get out of Iraq and rebuild our military strength, and develop a much broader arsenal of tools in the fight against terrorism. She will also forge a policy of "security through statesmanship," reassuring our allies, and engaging our adversaries.

Hillary Clinton will ensure "that the United States is committed to building a world we want, rather than simply defending against a world we fear." She says, "Education is the foundation of economic opportunity and should lie at the heart of America’s foreign assistance efforts." She sees climate change as a "powerful economic opportunity that can be a driver of growth, jobs, and competitive advantage in the twenty-first century."

Are you really suggesting we surrender and retreat from an active theater of combat operations so we can pay homage to a fabricated environmental crisis and educate the world so they can get jobs defeating climate change. Is that REALLY how you see us becoming leaders in the world?

Now, I realize (and you have reminded us) that you are a lady...so I won't make a disparaging remark...but do you really see the strongest nation on earth taking a back seat to AlGore and the UN? That's your idea of world leadership?

I know you think we're all obsessed with you, and that you somehow twist that into this notion that we actually care about what you have to say...but please-our obsession ends at just when the bloody hell we put you in a rubber room-long before you get the chance to drive America into the ground.