Hillary Clinton Calls Putin A 'Tough Guy With A Thin Skin'

[DonViejo]

Source: TPM

IGOR BOBIC – MARCH 5, 2014, 5:20 PM EST

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "tough guy with a thin skin" who was "squandering the potential" of his country.

“I know that his political vision is of a greater Russia,” she told students at the University of California at Los Angeles. “I said when I was still secretary that his goal is to re-Sovietize Russia’s periphery, but in the process he is squandering the potential of such a great nation, the nation of Russia, and threatening instability and even the peace of Europe.”

Clinton also clarified that she wasn't "making a comparison" to Hitler when she likened Putin's intervention in Ukraine to actions taken by Nazi Germany in the 1930s.

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[djean111]

1. Bang them war drums.......

[Demeter]

2. Swear offf Tweeting, Hillary

you haven't got the knack.

[DonViejo]

4. What does her tweeting ability have to do with the info in this OP?

[Lasher]

3. I'll bet Condi is delighted.

[riverwalker]

5. hey, Vlad

whose your momma now?
heh

[Purveyor]

6. And I can see a neocon from my 'front porch'... eom

[marble falls]

7. A 'Tough Guy With A Thin Skin'. Nice line. Warren for President.

[Beacool]

8. She's correct. He IS a tough guy with a thin skin.

He is always bragging about his machismo. What else is the message supposed to be when we see photos of Putin riding without a shirt, hunting or practicing judo? The guy has a paper thin skin. He is a bully, he's Christie with nuclear weapons.

The comments of some of you, no matter what Hillary says, are predictable.

[bemildred]

9. Projecting like mad as usual. nt

[Evergreen Emerald]

10. Why is it a neocon to be critical of Putin?

Should we ignore what he has done? Or, are you just waiting at the keyboard for something to attack Clinton with?

I can see the next headline: Clinton thinks puppies are cute. How can she like puppies after she personally and literally sent troops into Iraq to kill puppies? What a neocon.

[Beacool]

12. You got their number.

That's why I always say that this place is the mirror image of the Freepers. Same kind of craziness.

[bemildred]

14. We are fine with criticizing Putin, he is eminently criticizable.

But we want it to be credible, fact based, not a weak analogy to Hitler and the Sudentenland, and the utterly different world that was Europe in the 1930s.

It is even easier to point out differences than similarities, that's the problem with too easy Hitler analogies. It seems mainly intended to offend, and for that it may work.

[Evergreen Emerald]

21. There is the problem. Clinton is too smart

for the crowd that focuses on the sensational rather than look in depth at a topic. It was not a weak analogy, but rather a thoughtful analysis at the similar play books of the two invaders. Of course it really does not matter what she says...everything is viewed through negative glasses and twisted.

[bemildred]

24. She is clearly too smart for you. nt

[Evergreen Emerald]

25. Nice

I remember a time on DU when you could have discussions without them turning into personal attacks. I think this place is a microcosm of what our nation has become. Us-verses-them. If someone disagrees with you they become an other, dehumanized and therefore insult-able. Divide and conquer. The vast right wing conspiracy encourages division. We lemmings regurgitate the BS fed to us, against our interests.

[bemildred]

26. I've been here since 2002, there has never been such a time.

That's why we have dungeons. We don't come here to parade around like sheep.

I disagree with Ms. Clinton, and I'm not going to shut up about it.

[Evergreen Emerald]

27. You are welcome to scream from the rooftops how you disagree with the

learned Secretary of State. But when you reduce your argument to : "oh ya? well your an idiot." You prove my point.

[bemildred]

28. No, that seems to be your schtick. nt

[geek tragedy]

11. other than the inflammatory Germany comparison, she's 100% right nt

[Adrahil]

13. Go HILLARY!!!!! NT

[dipsydoodle]

16. Yes -

away.

[Adrahil]

18. :-P NT

[joshcryer]

23. Long Live the Queen.

[Le Taz Hot]

15. Margaret Thatcher would be proud, Hillary.

A neener-neener from Twitter -- how diplomatic.

[Sunlei]

17. thin skinned tough guys are heavy handed on horses too!

quit yankin' on that poor horses wire-bitted head.

[Psephos]

20. Guess that Reset Button didn't work out so well. n/t

[raccoon]

22. She gave a great description of Dubya, just change the name of the country.

' a "tough guy with a thin skin" who was "squandering the potential" of his country. '