December 3, 2003

Hillary Clinton is un-American. It says so right in today's Times:

The Howler is angry about how conservative pundits are misrepresenting Hilary Clinton's recent criticism of the administration. The Wash Times says she is unamerican.

"Meanwhile, E. D. Donahey and Brian Kilmeade also faked and phonied around with Clinton's comments on this morning's Fox & Friends.

I saw part of this this morning and it was awful. I don't know who the blonde guy is on Fox and Friends, but he was interviewing a republican rep from Michigan (I think) who's brother is serving in Iraq. Fox Doofus said (with a sneer) that Hilary had told the troops that the American people supported them, but were unsure about the administration's truthfulness in getting us into this war. Fox Doofus went on to ask the representative (as if it was a real question) about the good old days when criticizing the President or foreign policy stopped at the water's edge. Of course, this ignored the reality of all the Republicans (including Fox's own punditry) who constantly critiqued Pres. Clinton's policies in Kosovo and elsewhere, regardless of where the speaker was or where the President was. Can't have it both ways. Either this is a democracy where we can debate our foreign policy openly (as we should) or we don't. In either case, republicans want to be able to criticize democrats but won't extend that right to the opposition.

and how, exactly has the former First Lady been unamerican? Here again from the Daily Howler:


ATTACKING THE TROOPS: When will Clinton start supporting the troops? When she appeared on Monday's Today show, she attacked them right out of the box:

CLINTON: Well, Katie, first of all, the military is doing a terrific job. I don't think we can overstate how committed and devoted they are to trying to bring about security. But it is still a very dangerous place as this incident on Sunday clearly demonstrates. They don't have enough of the right mix of troops in our opinion. We visited with not only the military, but the civilian-American representatives. And it became clear that we need more MPs, we need more intelligence, we need more civil affairs. We need a bigger presence. And as we train the Iraqi civil defense corps and the army and the police, we are still going to have to be there in large numbers in order to make sure that that works. Clearly, what we are doing now is not an effective strategy. We need to get the UN back in as quickly as possible to internationalize this. But I can't say enough positively about what our American military are doing on the ground. And it's not just with respect to security. They are the ones who are reopening the schools, fixing up the hospitals, creating the relationships with Iraqis on the ground that I think will give us a better chance than we currently have."

Yeah, that is unAmerican. right. sure.

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