Reply #43: Hillary is Liberman on steroids who thinks "it's her turn" and she and Bill will do anything to win. [View All]

[flpoljunkie]

Sound like anyone? That's right! The Bushes!

Even her hometown newspaper took her to task in an editorial today on her "nuking Iran" statements:

On the eve of this crucial primary, Mrs. Clinton became the first Democratic candidate to wave the bloody shirt of 9/11. A Clinton television ad — torn right from Karl Rove’s playbook — evoked the 1929 stock market crash, Pearl Harbor, the Cuban missile crisis, the cold war and the 9/11 attacks, complete with video of Osama bin Laden. “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” the narrator intoned.

If that was supposed to bolster Mrs. Clinton’s argument that she is the better prepared to be president in a dangerous world, she sent the opposite message on Tuesday morning by declaring in an interview on ABC News that if Iran attacked Israel while she were president: “We would be able to totally obliterate them.”

By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues like terrorism, the economy and how to organize an orderly exit from Iraq, Mrs. Clinton does more than just turn off voters who don’t like negative campaigning. She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23wed1.html?h...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/23/opinion/23wed1.html?hp