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| Two more from the Huffpo |
While we're on a Huffpo linking binge, why not go for two more! First up, former Florida Senator Bob Graham -- a man who knows a thing or two about national security -- says that sorry, Hillary, but the 2002 Iraq war vote WAS the commander-in-chief test ...
"If there had been a little more curiosity in the fall 2002 -- if the questions had been asked -- [it] would have raised a lot of suspicions," he said, referencing the Iraq war authorization vote. "I think you have to look to see whether those qualities exist. And if they do, you have reason to believe that the person who has those qualities would become an effective commander-in-chief." And another thing:
"If you look at recent presidents, certainly George W. Bush didn't have any commander-in-chief experience, neither had Bill Clinton," he said. "George H. W. Bush had served in the military. Reagan didn't serve in the military. Carter was an Annapolis graduate. He was probably as close to what you would consider prepared to be commander-in-chief of the recent presidents." Meanwhile, the Huffpo turns us on to a National Journal interview in which Bill Clinton's former White House special counsel and adviser on foreign policy, Greg Craig, says that the Clinton camp is misleading the American people about Mrs. Clinton's so-called "experience." To whit:
Q: But was that experience, do you think, that is -- having a lot of influence with advisers, giving private advice to her husband -- was that experience that has helped prepare her to be commander in chief?
Craig: Oh, I don't doubt that. The point that I am making is that her claims of the nature of that experience are overstated. The fact is she did not sit in on national security meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the situation room. She conducted no negotiations. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy. She did not have her own national security staff. That's the fact. Now the experience that she did have -- watching and sometimes sitting in the room where discussions were going on and also meeting heads of state and foreign ministers -- that is good experience, and it's invaluable to understanding how the world works when it comes to international organizations as well as international negotiations. And here's the hat tip. Cheers, daahling.Labels: 2008 election, Hillary Clinton, presidential candidates |
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