The Al Qaeda Card: "Hillary Heightens Terrorism Rhetoric" or "4 More Years of Fear"

[Bonobo]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/01/clinton_heighte.html

Hillary was quoted as saying: “I don’t think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister,” she said. “They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do…. Let’s not forget you’re hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down.”

Compare this to similar comments made by Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice.

Haven't we had enough of the Fear Card?

I for one am tired of being manipulated into allowing them to spend more and more of our national treasure on the military, the prison complex, the war-machine and the status quo that has made allowed Multi-national Corporations that took away our jobs and livelihoods, to flourish.

We need a new model for how to make America work again. The Clinton Co-Presidency is many things, but CHANGE is not one of them.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

1. She showed how she responds to a terrorist attack on our soil

Did exactly what the neo-con warmongers wanted.

[flpoljunkie]

2. And, make no mistake, she was playing the "fear" card.

[Bonobo]

3. "Our next election might come in the form of a mushroom cloud!"

[Deep13]

4. Change is not one of them?

Yeah, I can see HC appointing a Justice Alito or starting a war for no reason or banning stem cell research or trying to make gay marriage unconstitutional or any of the dozens of idiotic things Bush has done.

She made a valid point. It isn't fear-mongering to point out that danger exists.

[John Q. Citizen]

6. Hillary voted for starting a war for no reason. Why?

[Tom Rinaldo]

9. The same reason John Edwards, John Kerry, Chris Dodd, and Joe Biden did

Every last friggin one of them is a blood thirsty vampire who get off on sending our youth off to die for the entertainment value of it all.

Is that the answer you want?

[John Q. Citizen]

16. i thought it was to look as tough as the Repos and for the oil. I didn't realize

sadistic pleasure had anything to do with it, but perhaps you are on to something about Hill.

[Tom Rinaldo]

17. Not just her obviously. We need a revolution against

the Kerrys and Bidens and Dodds of the world also. Each and every one of them love war, crave war, and are desperate to start wars and kill lots of people. Edwards used to be one of them too.

[John Q. Citizen]

24. Oh, i though all except Hill had expressed deep regret for their votes. Hill said she was still

on board and would gladly do it again.

[Tom Rinaldo]

26. No wonder you're confused then n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

28. So now it's about me? I didn't vote for the war, Hill did.

[maddiejoan]

7. Thank God Obama never plays the Al-Qaida card

"I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges," Obama said. "But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. ... If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf will not act, we will."

http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2007/08/02/obama3807_wideweb__470x235,0.jpg

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/obama-says-he-would-strike-inside-pakistan/2007/08/02/1185648060620.html

[Bonobo]

12. In response to a direct question: "What would you do if terrorists that attacked US were holed up?"

T-bone steak and oranges.

[maddiejoan]

18. He brought it up

by talking about "terrorists holed up in those mountains" in his foreign policy speech of August 2007.

Oranges and Oranges.

[Bonobo]

20. Better than the implication that Al Qaeda will strike us if we don't vote for HER.

[maddiejoan]

22. I believe her implication was

if we don't elect a Democrat.

Unless you think it's an accident that we were attacked on 9/11 BECAUSE we had another Bush in the WH

[Bonobo]

25. I do NOT think it an accident. But perhaps the relationship is more oblique than you suggest.

[maddiejoan]

27. My personal feeling

is that Osama Bin Laden (or whoever actually did 911 --I remain unconvinced) wouldn't have attacked a Gore Presidency.

[truebrit71]

11. She voted to start a war for no reason...why wouldn't she do it again?..

..

[Deep13]

15. You know damn well that's not what happened.

She voted for authorization only based on the President's promise that it was for negotiation purposes and would be used as a last resort.

The measure would have passed with no D votes. There was no reason for her to walk into a trap to be hit over the head during the election a few days later for being soft on terrorism. Like it or not, the public wanted that resolution.

[Bonobo]

21. You mean she was foolish enough to trust Bush? Bullshit! That's called covering your ass.

She is motivated by the need to show she is not the weak, liberal hippie-woman that the Republicans blasted her for.

She will continue to be motivated to prove she is not weak. Too bad for us.

[truebrit71]

23. She voted FOR the resolution. The blood is on HER hands. There is no other intellectually honest way

...to frame it...

She KNEW this would lead to war and she voted for it anyway because she was SCARED to take a stand...

FUCK.THAT.

[Deep13]

30. The IWR was not a declaration, it created an option.

That is a fact and anyone who is "intellectually honest" knows that.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. Hillary is a hawk. McCain is a hawk. Who do you think will get the hawk vote, and

who won't get the peace vote?

[Bonobo]

29. McCain will get the hawk vote.

[KennedyGuy]

8. Obama responds: "I have never met Al Queda..but his brother Bob Queda is a contributer"

[Bonobo]

10. Perfect response! And subtle! You are repeating the Muslim smear! Lovely.

[KennedyGuy]

13. nice try..pathetic..but nice..

[Bonobo]

14. What was pathetic? Your comment was naaaasty and diiiirty. Can't you stay out of the filth?

[Bonobo]

19. Olbermann piece on Hillary's fear mongering -video link!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZcqwA4-jes

It's just sad to think that we will be terrorized by our own government for 4 more years.
Hillary or McCain.