Other Dems Pile on Hillary's Comment

From NBC's Mark Murray
-- "Senator Clinton’s remarks are deeply troubling," said Edwards communications director Chris Kofinis in a statement. "After nearly seven years of George Bush and the politics of fear, the American people deserve a President who will focus first on keeping America safe, rather than calculating the political consequences. Unfortunately, Senator Clinton is seemingly taking a page straight from the GOP playbook that got us into this mess -- using fear of another terror attack as a political tactic to bolster her candidacy, and that is just wrong.”

-- "We shouldn't be thinking about terrorism in terms of its domestic political consequences, we should be protecting the country from terrorists," said Richardson in a statement. "Senator Clinton seems to think that President Bush has made this country safer. I disagree with her. Our failed policy in Iraq is making us less safe."

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/08/24/332387.aspx

Link to original comments: http://time-blog.com/swampland/2007/08/hillary_clinton_what_was_she_t.html

CLINTON'S COMMENT:
"It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world," Clinton told supporters in Concord. "So I think I'm the best of the Democrats to deal with that," she added.

edited:to add the link to the original comment

That today is the day that she would break with the base, and perhaps the party?

oy vey

but don't expect her to go there again. She's very good at not repeating mistakes. Then again, lately, she has been very good at making mistakes.

She's revealing who she is. She has nothing to run on if not Iron Woman. We'll see if Dems get scared into believing her tough talk is what we need.

Did any of Senator Clinton's critics bother to see what she was saying at the other end of mouth?

not in the link either!

Apparently it's this.

I just added the link/comments to the OP.

I don't see a pile of "Dems" or even "Dems" piling on.



Smells more like

& a big ole S-T-R-E-T-C-H.

and that's just what I heard this minute on CNN under the heading Clinton's comment raises eyebrows."

big news. :rofl:

Raised eyebrows.........maybe they should stomp their feet or better

;)

and is pummeled severely in the polls. I think he's learned, silence is golden.

This will be the death knell for Edwards.

He called her spot-on: fearmongering that only she can save us from the bully-boys.

What she said is unfortunately true, but she probably shouldn't have said it in that context. In any event, big deal. This will blow over in about 10 minutes.