2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow does 4 years of on-the-job training qualify anyone to be an expert in foreign policy???
ANSWER: IT DOESN'T.
How does being a one-term junior Senator from New York equate to being a lifelong politician???
ANSWER: IT DOESN'T.
How does being 1st Lady qualify one to be President (apart from already knowing where the bathrooms are)???
ANSWER: IT DOESN'T.
What makes Hillary Clinton qualified to be President?
ANSWER: SHE IS A WOMAN, AND SHE SAYS SO.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Jackie Wilson Said
(4,176 posts)Please explain who you believe is saying this or believes this.
Are you also implying she has no qualifications?
Surely you cant be saying that?
leftofcool
(19,460 posts)karynnj
(59,500 posts)Why did HRC mock the idea that to solve the mess in Syria, we need to have Iran and Saudi Arabia at the table. "Don't you know they hate each other?" Well, I think Bernie and others know this -- but as Bernie pointed out John Kerry (and his peers) got both at the table to get the Vienna agreement.
This led to the first UN resolution on Syria ..... and no, it was no more the resolution HRC worked out in a long day in Geneva when she was SoS .. that one was vetoed by both China and Russia.
Interesting that Bernie Sanders at least is following what is happening NOW ... three years after HRC stopped being Secretary of State ... and on this - HRC either disagrees with Kerry or did not know about it --- both bad from my perspective.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)And her judgment is clouded by ambition.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)mythology
(9,527 posts)Being one of the most powerful and involved First Ladies and being on foreign relations committees in Congress nothing, does Sanders have less than nothing?
I get that there's no argument that Sanders has any foreign policy experience, but that's as a result of his choices. Clinton made choices that gave her foreign policy experience. Blatantly lying doesn't make you right, even if you type it in all caps.
Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)Clinton focused on foreign policy experience because as everyone knows her driving ambition has been to be president. But surprise, surprise she lied when she said she accepted $675,000 because she didn't know she was going to run for president. A lie no one believes. Other presidents have made money on speaking tours after leaving the Oval Office but she is the only one to cash in beforehand. Her doing so raises a red flag that she is influence peddling why else have corporations lavished on her hundreds of thousands more in speaking fees than on any ex-president.
karynnj
(59,500 posts)I doubt she even asked to be.
procon
(15,805 posts)It's a poor argument, but props for the bit of snorty humor.
livetohike
(22,132 posts)in_cog_ni_to
(41,600 posts)He was a Govenor. Big whoop.
If Bill Clinton was qualified, Bernie's even moreso.
Bernie's been in Congress a long, long time. He's more than qualified to be president.
PEACE
LOVE
BERNIE
treestar
(82,383 posts)How absurd. Are you saying it is worthless? It counts. And Bernie doesn't have that.
bvar22
(39,909 posts)She was a major architect of the destruction of Libya, a country that could not and did not threaten us.
She used the legitimate Arab Spring as an excuse to enter an ongoing Civil/Tribal War.
Before Hillary, Libya was the most advanced countries in North Africa with many rights for women.
Women could have their own money, own property, run shops, wear blue jeans, walk the streets unescorted by a male "watcher", drive cars, attend University,.....but not anymore.
The rebels AlQaeda affiliated Black Flag Terrorists that Hillary supported by destroying Libya have imposed Sharia Law.
Hillary poor judgement set women's rights back 1000 years in Libya.
Here is a billboard that has been erected by Hillary's "allies" in Libya
showing how women MUST dress:
Hillary claims to be a fighter for women's rights.
I wonder if she has apologized to the hundreds of thousands of Libyan Women who are now forced back to medieval times.
So, 4 years of experience?
I don't want THAT kind of experience anywhere near the White House.
MisterP
(23,730 posts)she's forced them to a time off the timeline altogether
Ino
(3,366 posts)So she can brag about that
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2015/11/30/clinton-staff-urged-her-visit-more-countries-secretary-state/zKuFUSEHQRj9QbYEa1r8hL/story.html
For Secretary of State Hillary Clinton circa July 2012 the answer was: not enough.
Seven months before Clinton left office, a top aide suggested to her that she still had plenty of time to run up the score on total countries and set a globe-trotting goal of 110 countries, according to an e-mail released Monday.
The e-mail, sent by Clinton press aide Philippe Reines three years ago, casts a political light on one of Clintons core talking points as a candidate for president: that she was a nonpolitical and hard-working secretary of state, who, as she frequently notes, visited 112 countries.
Nanjeanne
(4,918 posts)DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)National Honor Society member
Merit Scholarship Finalist
B.S. Wellesley
J.D. Yale Law School
Corporate and trial lawyer
Elected to the Senate twice from a large and heterogeneous state
Secretary of State
I deliberately didn't list the ceremonial positions.