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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 03:57 PM
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In October 2006, Hillary called Bush's refusal to talk "unrealistic"
Edited on Tue Jul-24-07 03:58 PM by BeyondGeography
"At our best, Americans have always lived in a creative tension between idealism and realism; between our clear-eyed insistence on seeing the world as it actually is and our deeply-held desire to remake the world as it ought to be.

"This Administration has abandoned that tension for a simplistic division of the world into good and evil. They've refused to talk to anyone on the "evil" side. And some have called that idealistic; I call it dangerously unrealistic.

"At the end of the day, you have to question whether this administration has led with our values or used our values as a cloak to justify its ideology and unilateralism. Something is wrong when our pursuit of idealistic goals has turned a good portion of the world against us."

http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=265807

Tactical mistake by Team Clinton here. They will focus on the itty-bitty "precondition" word, but she has already agreed to the concept of talking with anyone and everyone and her smearing of Obama as naive is an obvious invitation to re-open her great weakness, IWR.
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SaveElmer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 03:58 PM
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1. Dishonesty and lies from the Obama camp...but what else is new...
Trying to wiggle out of yet another debate blunder by lying about both what was said in the debate and what was said previously...
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 04:05 PM
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4. care to provide your own links to what was said previously and in the debate?
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bling bling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 04:00 PM
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2. The thing is, I liked Clinton's original position better.
The one that she's chiding Obama for sounds a lot like the one she held back in April. Sounds like she's changing her tune a little to make him seem less tough on national security. That's a shame.
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illinoisprogressive Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 04:05 PM
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3. Tegan Goodard sited this and called it flip flop of the day.
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zulchzulu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-24-07 04:14 PM
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5. Perfect ad to slam back at Team Clinton if they wanna play...
Step into the political landmine, Team Clinton. We have you right where we want you.


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