Hillary Clinton

riversedge

(70,242 posts) Tue Dec 15, 2015, 06:57 PM Dec 2015

This is what it would be like for a former secretary of state to be president:.........

In case you have not yet seen this.....

This is what it would be like for a former secretary of state to be president: http://hrc.io/1mkLKBl

https://www.hillaryclinton.com/feed/hillary-clinton-was-asked-unexpected-foreign-policy-question-campaign-trailand-she-nailed-it/?utm_medium=social&utm_source=tw&utm_campaign=20151214feed-laos

Hillary Clinton was asked an unexpected foreign policy question on the trail—and she nailed it.

Nov 4, 2015 by Elizabeth Chan
A candidate who knows exactly what’s going on in Laos.

At a campaign stop in Iowa, Hillary got asked an unexpected foreign policy question about unexploded bombs in Laos—leftovers from the Vietnam War.
Without missing a beat, Hillary gave a four-minute response that shows exactly what it would mean to have a former secretary of state in the Oval Office.

Hillary for America
Even though the Vietnam War ended decades ago, the unexploded land mines that were left behind continue to kill and injure people today.

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This is what it would be like for a former secretary of state to be president:......... (Original Post) riversedge Dec 2015 OP

I did remediation for a few years in San Diego. upaloopa Dec 2015 #1

Of course Hillary did.. thank you, rivers! Cha Dec 2015 #2

Oh, the Hypocrisy, Cluster Bombs are OK with her. bahrbearian Dec 2015 #3

go complain in your own Bernie Group. riversedge Dec 2015 #5

Talk about hypocrisy. okasha Dec 2015 #7

The US was not using cluster bombs at that point. okasha Dec 2015 #6

She has a vast amount of foreign experience and it is needed now. Thinkingabout Dec 2015 #4

Right. The crisis nobody wanted is rising before our eyes. What I find strange... Hekate Dec 2015 #8

Sanders has voted for mitary action more times than Hillary has Thinkingabout Dec 2015 #9

The depth and breadth of her knowledge mcar Dec 2015 #10

upaloopa

(11,417 posts)

1. I did remediation for a few years in San Diego.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:05 PM

Dec 2015

It takes walking every square foot with a metal detector and digging up any piece of metal that you find.

It can be done but it is very time consuming and can be dangerous.

Cha

(297,285 posts)

2. Of course Hillary did.. thank you, rivers!

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:36 PM

Dec 2015

bahrbearian

(13,466 posts)

3. Oh, the Hypocrisy, Cluster Bombs are OK with her.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:47 PM

Dec 2015

On September 6, 2006, a Senate bill -- a simple amendment to ban the use of cluster bombs in civilian areas -- presented Senator Clinton with a timely opportunity to protect the lives of children throughout the world. The cluster bomb is one of the most hated and heinous weapons in modern war, and its primary victims are children. She voted to keep Cluster Bombs.

riversedge

(70,242 posts)

5. go complain in your own Bernie Group.

Reply to bahrbearian (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 08:21 PM

Dec 2015

okasha

(11,573 posts)

7. Talk about hypocrisy.

Reply to riversedge (Reply #5)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 09:00 PM

Dec 2015

That one has it.

okasha

(11,573 posts)

6. The US was not using cluster bombs at that point.

Reply to bahrbearian (Reply #3)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 08:58 PM

Dec 2015

Israel was, and this resolution was seen in some quarters as a rebuke to that nation. A fairly large fraction of Hillary's constituency was Jewish. She voted accoeding to their concerns, just as Sanders voted against the Brady Bill and for Lockheed Martin's F-35 and drones, both of which are weapons of mass destruction.

Foe the record, I don't like any of those votes. But if "constiuancy " is a valid defense of one candidate, it's equally valid for another.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

4. She has a vast amount of foreign experience and it is needed now.

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Tue Dec 15, 2015, 07:48 PM

Dec 2015

Hekate

(90,714 posts)

8. Right. The crisis nobody wanted is rising before our eyes. What I find strange...

Reply to Thinkingabout (Reply #4)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 02:13 AM

Dec 2015

... is that the Hillary haters here scour every word of her record and every statement she makes in the present to find "evidence" that she is a warhawk and a warmonger.

Never do they present any real solutions for the problems we have right now in the world and in the country. They just whinge that Hillary is a Hawk and that she can't wait for her "friends" in the MIC to start making money off of mayhem. In their eyes she must be Dick Cheney in a pantsuit, which is just sick.

I am very appreciative that HRC immediately started to accrue foreign policy credentials as soon as she hit the Senate, and was more than ready to prove herself as SoS when appointed by Obama. I think she will be more than ready for whatever comes.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)

9. Sanders has voted for mitary action more times than Hillary has

Reply to Hekate (Reply #8)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 09:40 AM

Dec 2015

But the same people who says Hillary is a war hawk but Sanders isn't, it is not reasonable.

mcar

(42,334 posts)

10. The depth and breadth of her knowledge

Reply to riversedge (Original post)

Wed Dec 16, 2015, 09:13 PM

Dec 2015

It's one of the many things that impress me so. And that people underestimate. They made the same mistake with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama.

These people are not just smart, they are knowledgeable.

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