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Jitter65

(3,089 posts)
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:16 PM Jun 2016

Listening to CNN anderson Cooper.

Do you really think Hillary is not ready to answer the foreign policy issues they are bringing up.

First off, trying to blame Hillary for Russian invasion of Georgia is silly. That happened under Bush.

Libya: The Sec. of State does not make the final decision on foreign policy actions..the President does. She may have supported removing Gaddafi but so did most of our allies and many of the people in Libya. Obama has admitted that there should have been a better plan for the aftermath.

ISIS is not a creation of Hillary but rather part of the fallout from Iraq.

And most of the Military brass agree with her positions on Syria that Obama failed to implement.

It is still the President who makes the final foreign policy decisions.

I am confident that Hillary will step up and take responsibility for her mistakes but also set the record straight about really went wrong and what was really going on in all of those situations.

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Agnosticsherbet

(11,619 posts)
1. I have been annoyed, constantly, that people pretend Clinton alone ran foreign policy.
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:26 PM
Jun 2016

The Secretary of State serves at the pleasure the President and implements the President's foreign policy. It is not the other way around.

LiberalFighter

(53,544 posts)
3. Madam Secretary for those that watched the show
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:40 PM
Jun 2016

should have given people some insight about the position. But then again some people can't connect the dots.

DLCWIdem

(1,580 posts)
5. yes I totally agree with you. Not that I am placing the blame on PBO
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 12:03 AM
Jun 2016

She serves under him and implemented his foreign policy, and PBO obviously thought the same things she did. Furthermore, her 1 vote in the Senate does not a foreign policy agenda make. The Iraq war was of the making of Bush and his foreign policy people no one else. I mean do you really think that Hill was making the foreign policy agenda as a junior senator. There is more complexity after the her vote. SUCH AS WHO DECIDED on MALIKI, how they decided who was going to vote etc....

Doctor Jack

(3,072 posts)
4. Clinton has received more negative press than any other candidate in 2016
Thu Jun 2, 2016, 11:45 PM
Jun 2016
http://www.vox.com/2016/4/15/11410160/hillary-clinton-media-bernie-sanders?version=meter+at+3&module=meter-Links&pgtype=Blogs&contentId=&mediaId=&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F&priority=true&action=click&contentCollection=meter-links-click

Of course that piece of shit on that piece of shit network would attack her for things that happened before she was in office. I hear she also did nothing to stop the Lincoln assassination or the Spanish Inquisition. God damn Hillary!
 

Basic LA

(2,047 posts)
6. So their preference is Evil Clown Trump?
Fri Jun 3, 2016, 01:44 AM
Jun 2016

Hey that would be a good way for Hillary to brand the orange one, as the Evil Clown, with a scary horror-movie face. Drill that image into the public consciousness.

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