Clinton accuses Obama of inexperience abroad

[El Supremo]

She's really on a tear!

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton called rival Barack Obama a risky choice to lead U.S. foreign policy even as Obama gained ground on her in the battleground U.S. state of Ohio on Monday.

In a foreign policy speech, Clinton said Obama had veered between pledging to meet leaders of hostile nations like Iran and Cuba if elected in November to warning of U.S. military action against al Qaeda targets in Pakistan.

"He wavers from seeming to believe that mediation and meetings without preconditions can solve the world's intractable problems, to advocating rash, unilateral military action without cooperation from our allies in the most sensitive region of the world," Clinton said.

With a week to go until a potentially pivotal vote in Ohio and Texas on March 4, a Quinnipiac University poll said Clinton leads Obama in Ohio by 51 percent to 40 percent among likely Democratic voters....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080225/pl_nm/usa_politics_dc_64;_ylt=AtN2X1qVyf0lgmxQoU48nWQE1vAI

[NJSecularist]

1. Does she have any room to talk? Especially after she voted YEA for the IWR.

And then the Kyl-Lieberman Amendment.

[stellanoir]

2. bingo

worst foreign policy decisions EVER

[Abacus]

4. Was just about to say the same thing... Hillaryous. /nt

[ClassWarrior]

3. Watch his senior foreign policy advisor, Samantha Power, on Democracy Now!

Very impressive. From today:

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/25/barack_obamas_senior_foreign_policy_adviser

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

18. .

[HeraldSquare212]

5. Maybe in 20 years, unilateral action to capture Osama bin Laden won't be considered 'rash'

by folks like Clinton and Bush.

[TwilightGardener]

6. She has a Republican/neocon foreign policy. Not sure I'd be so proud of that.

[Occam Bandage]

7. "rash, unilateral military action?" Such as Iraq, Hillary?

[John Q. Citizen]

8. If she can't run a campaign how's she gonna run a country?

[Debi]

10. Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson and James Carville will run it for her

Look at how much money they're making...er...um....how well they're running her campaign!

[scheming daemons]

9. The Big Dawg, however, has experienced many-a-broad...

...ba dum bum.

Just kidding......

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

11. He won the delegates for the democrats abroad

Perhaps those overseas differ with her.

obama wins democrats abroad global primary

www.democratsabroad.org/article/2008/02/21/obama-wins-democrats-abroad-global-primary

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

12. She's spitting into the wind at this point.

She has already tried this tack, and it has already failed.

[rox63]

13. My brief response to her latest rant: Kyl/Lieberman

Talk about your rash votes...

[jackson_dem]

24. Yeah Kyl/Lieberman was such a bad vote that Obama had no position on it until Edwards...

...gained traction from opposing it. Obama had no position prior to the vote, skipped the vote, and said nothing about it during a debate held the same night as the vote despite being directly asked about Iran and despite Edwards and Gravel strongly denouncing it. Only when he saw the fallout: damage to Hillary, a gain for Edwards (who was closer to St. Obama in the polls than Obama was to Hillary at the time) did he reverse his previous position (St. Obama was for designated the IRG a terrorist organization before he was against it. See the bill he cosponsored months before Kyl-Lieb) and masquerade as opposing it.

[K Gardner]

14. Clinton: "blah blah.. blah BLAH BLAH BLAH.. VOTE FOR ME!" Nobody is listening anymore to

Hillary except to cement the case that she needs to withdraw, with what dignity she has left. About zero.

[loveangelc]

15. Oh God, does she really want to go down this route?

it's going to be too easy for him to rebut this with her iraq vote and ask was that good judgment.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

16. She's Right. It Just Doesn't Matter Any Longer.

This campaign season stopped being about experience or who would make the better President a longgg time ago. It's all about this rockstar popularity now, and that will take him straight to the nomination.

I applaud her for valiantly hanging in there and trying to still appeal to a sense of reason that she is in fact the better candidate, but it just really isn't likely to matter anymore.

[JimGinPA]

17. When You Have Nothing That Will Build Yourself Up - Try To Tear Your Opponent Down

K&R

[MojoMojoMojo]

19. Obama says he will reinvade Iraq

So why even bother pulling out?
Arent you all "Trying To Tear Your Opponent Down" with all the anti Hillary talk?

[Swamp Rat]

22. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[jackson_dem]

21. It's called politics. That's why Obama ran a negative campaign for a year

And began attacking her indirectly starting with the announcement of his exploratory committee and then directly on the second day of his campaign.

[anonymous171]

20. AL-QAEDA AL-QAEDA AL-QAEDA AL-QAEDA AL-QAEDA

[jackson_dem]

23. She is factually correct. Obama has almost no inexperience abroad

But he will be surrounded by experienced advisers so we have nothing to worry about...

[tabasco]

25. Experience doesn't count for much when you have no moral courage.

Clinton's experience didn't prevent her from cravenly giving madman Bush a loaded gun with the IWR.

I'll take an inexperienced, courageous person over an experienced coward EVERY TIME.

(This is not to say I think Obama is inexperienced.)

[TexasObserver]

26. She's one of many who have experience in foreign affairs that is all bad.

She never gets that part. Obama understood Iraq in 2002 better than Hillary ever will.