Did Hillary Clinton ever say "it is naive to talk to our enemies"?

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

It is certain that in Senator Obama's Reagan remarks he said that the Republican party had been "the party of ideas," but did not say, "the Republicans had all the good ideas."

Along those lines, did Hillary Clinton ever say "it is naive to talk to our enemies"? We know that Senator Obama had a good run of claiming that was her stated position, but did she ever say that?

[NMMNG]

1. Is this what people are talking about?

(2007-07-25) — Building on his debate remark that, as president, Barack Obama would meet face-to-face with the leaders of China, North Korea, Iran, Syria and Venezuela, the Illinois Democrat Senator today said that he also plans to solve “perhaps the world’s greatest problem” through executive-level bilateral talks with the Prince of Darkness, Satan.

“As I see it, you can’t have lasting peace without Satan’s cooperation,” said Mr. Obama. “We can’t keep following the failed Bush administration strategy of only talking with our allies. I’m willing to invest the time to find out if we have something the Devil wants that could bring an end to war and strife.”

Rival candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton, immediately branded the comment as naive, and “symptomatic of Barack’s lack of experience in the realm of politics.”

http://www.scrappleface.com/?p=2633

WASHINGTON (AP) - Barack Obama's offer to meet without precondition with leaders of renegade nations such as Cuba, North Korea and Iran touched off a war of words, with rival Hillary Rodham Clinton calling him naive and Obama linking her to President Bush's diplomacy.

Older politicians in both parties questioned the wisdom of such a course, while Obama's supporters characterized it as a repudiation of Bush policies of refusing to engage with certain adversaries.

It triggered a round of competing memos and statements Tuesday between the chief Democratic presidential rivals. Obama's team portrayed it as a bold stroke; Clinton supporters saw it as a gaffe that underscored the freshman senator's lack of foreign policy experience.

"I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive," Clinton was quoted in an interview with the Quad-City Times that was posted on the Iowa newspaper's Web site on Tuesday.

In response, Obama told the newspaper that her stand puts her in line with the Bush administration.

Both parties were weighing the potential political fallout, especially in Florida, an early primary state, a pivotal general election state—and where Cuban President Fidel Castro remains particularly unpopular.

"Anything that looks like pandering to dictators is bad politics in South Florida," said Republican state Rep. David Rivera of Miami. He predicted Obama's comments would come back to haunt him, particularly if he becomes the Democratic nominee.

The Republican National Committee on Tuesday circulated stories calling attention to and ridiculing Obama's remarks.

In Monday's debate from Charleston, S.C., Obama was asked by a questioner via YouTube if he would be willing to meet—without precondition—in the first year of his presidency with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.

"I would," he responded.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8QJC0380&show_article=1

[Amanita]

2. Yeah - some informative polls for a change!

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3. Which came first...the chicken or the egg

The question that sparked the controversy at Monday's debate seemed simple enough: Would the candidates for president be willing to meet, within their first year in office, with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea?

Obama said yes, while Clinton said no, arguing that the president should only meet with world leaders who are hostile to the United States after lower-level diplomatic contacts are conducted. In an interview today with the Quad City Times, Clinton more directly criticized Obama's answer.

"I thought that was irresponsible and frankly naive,"

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=3409544&page=1

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

4. Jeepers! You mean she was referring to Barack's bone-head answer, not to the concept of

diplomacy itself?

That's impossible, because I heard Obama say in Iowa rallies on c-span that his opponent said it's naive to talk to our enemies.

And he would never twist something someone said to fit his campaign narrative.

That would be as irresponsible as if Hillary said in a debate that Obama is all talk, and he insinuated to a crowd the next day that Hillary had said that Martin Luther King was all talk!

[rinsd]

5. Funny how it works huh?

Kind of like the Rezko means nothing people who had a grand old time with Hsu.