DLC's PNAC Document - Hillary Clinton On America's Strategy

[JDPriestly]

45. Do you think Hillary has "evolved" on foreign policy like she has on so many other issues?

How can anyone back a candidate who "evolves" as easily and as often and to such a self-interested extent as Hillary has?

Changing your mind on a couple of issues? Fine.

But Hillary is like a chameleon, changing her colors to suit the mood of the electorate. Who is she really anyway?

And then her refusal to say where she stands on issues like the TPP and as you read above, she favored it very much not long ago. She was bragging about it. At a time when America's balance of payments problem is severe, and we have utterly no policy to do anything about it, at a time when our industrial base has been decimated and our incomes are not really keeping up with our personal costs, we really do not need the TPP.

The point in posting 3-4 year old stuff is that we are trying to find out who Hillary really is and what she really stands for, assuming that her entire political personality is not just a product roll-out -- flavor of the month:

Hillary, you'll love her; she is just what you want her to be; just don't try to find out who she really is or what she really stands for.

If you think we Bernie fans are giving Hillary a tough time, just wait until the Republicans get a hold of her. She is going to have to state where she stands on issues like the XL pipeline, like the TPP and national security. And when she does, she will not only have to answer the questions of the Republicans, but the questions of the real Progressives in her own party.

Hillary is not going to be able to run on the froth that she is now running on.

She has some good policy proposals, but she is not answering serious questions that we Bernie supporters are asking.

Bernie, on the other hand, is open and clear on his stands on the issues. Nothing wishy-washy, nothing hidden, no huge epiphanies just in time to please the voters.

That's why we support Bernie, not Hillary.

Hillary is playing games with all of us, you, me and the rest of the voters. Who knows what she would do once in office? She is not very transparent on a lot of important issues like national security objectives.

Hillary voted for the Iraq War resolution without demanding more evidence and facts. For me, that is a big red STOP sign. STOP, LOOK and LISTEN. Hillary could be dangerous for the health and safety of America. How could anyone in Congress vote for a war based on such bogus information when the UN weapons investigation team was asking for time to finish their work? And how could Congress have allowed Bush to go into Iraq when the weapons inspectors reported just days or weeks earlier (prior to deployment; read the April 2004 issue of Vanity Fair) that Saddam had no WMDs.

Hillary's foreign policy, her war policy, has been disastrous for our country. And she is just one of many, many Democrats who failed our country and voted for war in Iraq. And now look at how ISIS has grown out of that war.

And I have serious questions about the role that the Hillary and Kerry State Departments have played in helping to arm the rebels in Syria and the terrible repercussions we are now seeing play out because of what I suspect was not a well thought through scheme to aid rebels about which we knew very little.

My suspicions about Syria and ISIS are just suspicions. There is little information about just how and from where ISIS gets its weapons. But there are only so many possibilities, and that makes me suspicious of the US role and the roles of some of the US allies like Saudi Arabia.

So yes, we do need to look at Hillary's past. After all, she reminds us repeatedly as she campaigns, that she is the one with the EXPERIENCE.

Thus, since she brags about her EXPERIENCE, it is perfectly correct for us to examine that experience very carefully.