Mrs. Clinton… Where’s the beef?
By reformedhippie. Filed in 2008 Elections |
Hat tip to Atlas Shruggs for the graphic… hilarious.
Hillary Clinton is running around the country claiming that she has the experience necessary to be the next President of the United States.
“I was a member of the White House team that was involved with trying to make a lot of changes . . . I think that people who are running for President should lay out for Americans their record, their experiences, their qualifications, their vision, their plan, and their understanding of how to make it all happen, and that’s what I’m doing,” Clinton told Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi during a recent stop in Manchester.
This statement is a prime example of how she throws out sound bites for everyone to gobble up but does not provide any substance. Exactly what experience does she have? The only response we get is a weak-kneed blurb that she was a member of the “White House team”. What does that mean? What treaties did she negotiate? What trade agreements with foreign countries did she hammer out? We do know of one dismal failure… her health care proposal which was met with an unceremonious death.
Around New Year’s, in answering a similar critique by her opponent Barak Obama, she stated that she was on a flight that required “corkscrew” landing into Bosnia in 1996 because of possible terrorist activity.
“You know, we landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire. I don’t remember anybody offering me tea on the tarmac when that was happening.”
Well there have been a lot of visitors to Bosnia, Afganistan, Iraq and others who have experienced the exact same thing. Just because you experience a “corkscrew” landing does not qualify you for anything except for a gig as a Pepto Bismol beta-tester… or give your grandkids a fireside story of excitement and danger. Oh, and, according to her, Bosnia was to risky for her husband (the President) to visit. So she went instead. Uh-huh.
There is something interesting about that trip. She was accompanied by her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, as well as entertainers Sinbad (a comedian) , and Sheryl Crowe the singer. So if it was soooooooo dangerous to visit then why, Mrs. Clinton, did you risk the life of your only child in such a dangerous place??? Chelsea may have insisted on going over there but your average reasonable thinking mother would not have given her passage on her plane. Nope. And what kind of high-level policy making diplomatic meeting was it if she is in the company of such wonderful talent. They may not have served tea on the tarmac but this was not a serious diplomatic mission.
And of course we cannot really dig much further into her so-called experience because her husband will not allow many of his records to be released from his library. So we are once again left scratching our heads wondering if all this experience she is claiming is the result of a fertile imagination or whether there is any truth to it.
The ball is in your court Mrs. Clinton… show us the beef?
