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malaise

(269,063 posts)
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 08:00 PM Mar 2014

Tweety raised a good point in his rant at the end

Is Hillary Clinton still a hawk????

Seriously how does her foreign policy sit with progressives?
Would someone explain the love affair with Hillary for me - she makes Obama look like a leftist.

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Tweety raised a good point in his rant at the end (Original Post) malaise Mar 2014 OP
Good point. elleng Mar 2014 #1
Still a hawk. bigwillq Mar 2014 #2
She has to be a "hawk" to court AIPAC and a few other PNAC organizations. nt kelliekat44 Mar 2014 #3
I doubt she will be as hawkish as many around her claim and.............. OKNancy Mar 2014 #4
This is the reason I voted for Obama Awknid Mar 2014 #5
Not even after reading OKNancy's post? Auntie Bush Mar 2014 #7
An unrepentant hawk. Hillary, Mar '14: 'Let's Be Clear,' Military Option for Iran 'on the Table' Catherina Mar 2014 #6
I can't support her. summerschild Mar 2014 #8
Keeping up? Catherina Mar 2014 #9
 

bigwillq

(72,790 posts)
2. Still a hawk.
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 08:14 PM
Mar 2014

I don't get the love affair with her either.

If she runs, she will not have my support.

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)
4. I doubt she will be as hawkish as many around her claim and..............
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 08:32 PM
Mar 2014

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Re-introduce the Equal Rights Amendment
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went against Bill and does not support NAFTA
voted against CAFTA
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supported verified paper ballot for every electronic voting machine
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pro stem cell research
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Auntie Bush

(17,528 posts)
7. Not even after reading OKNancy's post?
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:09 PM
Mar 2014

What was not to like that you wouldn't vote Democratic if Hillary runs?

summerschild

(725 posts)
8. I can't support her.
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:24 PM
Mar 2014


I voted for Obama over her because she was a hawk, then couldn't believe it when he appointed her to Sec State. I only learned after the Ukraine stuff started that she had appointed Victoria Nuland Kagan to the state department. If you are keeping up at all, you know that Nuland is working to try to get us into a war with Russia.

Clinton and group are idiots of the same sort as Bill Kristol and the merry band of PNAC. She will not get my support.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
9. Keeping up?
Fri Mar 21, 2014, 10:41 PM
Mar 2014

Take a look at my journal lol! It's got pages and pages of that.

I posted this several times but will all the dishonesty about what's going on in Ukraine, a certain quarter is studiously ignoring it: PNAC in the State Department messing with Ukraine. Let. That. Sink. In.

Do you remember the day, right after Obama won, when he went to meet with her to *offer* her the job. It looked like he was doing it at the barrel of a gun. Someone posted a picture of him returning from that impromptu meeting and he looked very glum. I wish I could find that picture again. I don't think he wanted her at all and think she was imposed on him.

She won't get my support either. Not even over my dead body.

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