So then for all accounts, all Former First Ladies are qualified to be the next President with a vast range of overseas experiences. I think Hillary is a liar and I'm glad someone is calling her out on her experience.

No former White House staff would say any first lady that traveled overseas doesn't have foreign experience. They all do, they know (or must remember) the names of other countries Presidents and Prime Ministers, especially when they are invited for dinner.

I want to know, WHAT foreign policy has she passed. I want to know what foreign minister or president she negotiated with on her own without just ‘being in the room’ during a conversation. I want to know what staff has she called into a room and led a foreign policy meeting to drive new policies.

Street gangs have negotiated more treaties across gangs than Hillary with any 'foreign' country.

Well Clinton won because she just quit.

http://www.foxnews.com/

News Update:  She has just been fired by the Obama camp.

Obama’s selective willingness to ‘fight back’
Posted March 7th, 2008 at 11:05 am
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Slate’s John Dickerson had an interesting item last night that seemed to summarize the conventional wisdom on intra-party criticism pretty well.

The Clinton team is setting the same trap for Obama my 4-year-old sets for her older brother. She hits him knowing that he’ll get in trouble for hitting back. Right on cue, Clinton’s senior aide Ann Lewis set it up. “I didn’t realize their version of new politics was to recycle old Republican tactics,” she said. If voters put both campaigns in the corner for a timeout, it may hurt Obama more because his claim to be a new kind of above-the-fray candidate means he’s held to a higher standard. If Obama pays no penalty for the fracas, the Clinton folks still take him for a roll in the dirt where he can’t offer his appealing message of hope, change, inspiration, and hope. Clinton, by contrast, reinforces her fighter image.

This is not a new dilemma for Obama. We’ve been talking [about] it for a year. What’s new is that he is under more pressure than ever to punch back. It’s not just that he can’t let Clinton’s attacks hang in the air. He has to show Democrats that he’s a fighter, too…. If he’s going to be the nominee, he’s going to face a lot worse from Republicans — and the barrage will be constant if he’s president.

This is pretty much what everyone knows to be true — Clinton engaged Obama, Obama tried to stay above the fray, Clinton prevailed. Obama therefore is expected to pull off a tricky move — go negative on Clinton while a) enduring Clinton’s mockery about “abandoning the politics of hope”; and b) sticking to the positive message that has gotten him to this point.

But when I read Dickerson’s item last night, I paused on a couple of points that didn’t seem quite right. Obama, for example, “has to show Democrats that he’s a fighter.” That’s true, but I couldn’t help but notice that when Republicans started treating him as the likely nominee, and McCain and Bush started taking a few shots, Obama fought back quickly and quite effectively. (The dust up over al Qaeda in Iraq last week comes to mind.) There didn’t seem to be any hesitation at all.

With this in mind, the problem isn’t necessarily that Obama is reluctant to get aggressive, it’s that he’s reluctant to get aggressive with his Democratic rival.

To be sure, Obama hasn’t exactly been playing bean-bag with Clinton, but I think it’s fair to say that Obama, especially since Super Tuesday, has been restrained in going after his Democratic rival. He had the luxury of doing so — he was winning and had less of an incentive to launch attacks. Clinton needed to catch up, so she became rather relentless. No big mystery here.

On this point, Dickerson argued that Obama has to be able to endure Clinton’s “kitchen-sink strategy,” because it’s only going to get worse. Republicans won’t hold back in the fall, and their unhinged attacks will be more belligerent than anything he’s seen from Clinton. Clinton’s attacks, the theory goes, are a test of sorts — either they’ll “toughen him up” or he’ll fail before it’s too late. If he can’t take it in March, October will be a nightmare.

But just how similar are the circumstances? Jonathan Chait makes a compelling case.

[H]er attacks on Obama are not a fair proxy for what he’d endure in the general election, because attacks are harder to refute when they come from within one’s own party. Indeed, Clinton is saying almost exactly the same things about Obama that McCain is: He’s inexperienced, lacking in substance, unequipped to handle foreign policy. As The Washington Monthly’s Christina Larson has pointed out, in recent weeks the nightly newscasts have consisted of Clinton attacking Obama, McCain attacking Obama, and then Obama trying to defend himself and still get out his own message. If Obama’s the nominee, he won’t have a high-profile Democrat validating McCain’s message every day.

Second, Obama can’t “test” Clinton the way she can test him. While she likes to claim that she beat the Republican attack machine, it’s more accurate to say that she survived with heavy damage. Clinton is a wildly polarizing figure, with disapproval ratings at or near 50 percent. But, because she earned the intense loyalty of core Democratic partisans, Obama has to tread gingerly around her vulnerabilities. There is a big bundle of ethical issues from the 1990s that Obama has not raised because he can’t associate himself with what partisan Democrats (but not Republicans or swing voters) regard as a pure GOP witch hunt.

There’s no reason to think that dynamic will be at all similar in the fall. Obama’s willingness to be confrontational with Republicans seems quite healthy, and I haven’t seen any serious suggestion he’d play patty-cakes with McCain while the Republican Smear Machine is punching him in the mouth. Indeed, the dynamic may very well prove to be the opposite — the GOP will go after Clinton on issues Obama is afraid to touch, meaning she’d have to endure attacks for the first time.

Maybe Obama will effectively engage Clinton in the coming weeks, maybe not. Time will tell. But either way, looking at this as a proxy for what might happen to Obama in the fall seems like a mistake.

Dead issue she resigned or was asked to resign.
Now will the person in the Clinton camp with the Ken Starr comment resign and will Hillary give back $170,000 in tainted campaign funds.  You can not have it both ways.

Powers should be fired, but it's okay for the Clinton campaign to call Sen. Obama names?  Why doesn't HRC ask Wolfson to quit?  (I thought the Dems think Ken Starr was synonmous with Monster, so what am I missing here?)

BTW, why aren't you calling her out on her so-called experience claims.

Sure she has experience - experience in scandals, secretive behavior, down and dirty gutter campaign tactics, missing files, oh the list goes on.

END THE DYNASTY

OBAMA stop your people from equating Hillary to a monster.  Show some respect to the monsters of the world.

Obama people are rookies.The keep making rookie mistakes.We can't afford to have rookies run our country.

Clinton 08

Don't hate the player, hate the game.

When will Wolfson step down for calling Obama Ken Starr?

Oh, that's right, he won't.  Obama has principles.  That's why Samantha Powers will no longer be working with Obama's campaign.  

To bad that can't be said for Clinton's camp.  No principles there.

Guess what?  Hillary Clinton is a monster, just as sure as Bill Clinton is a liar, George Bush is a moron, and John McCain is a tired warrior.  They all need to fade away from American politics.

These Clinton supporters are right in asking Obama to fire his aide for name calling. Obama must take a stand against the nasty politics involved in smearing your opponent's image. He should not do that to a fellow Democrat.

Given that, Hillary had better start handing out pink slips to mostly all of her aides and advisors. Oh, and I wonder why Hillary's friends in Congress didn't display any anger at Hillary's deep praise of John McCain's experience.

She is a MONSTER period.  She is also the DEVIL.  Hillary is a WITCH.  Any more adjectives?  Guess I should loose my voting privileges because I've called her all of these nasty names.  At least I'm not insinuating she is MUSLIM or a scary BLACK person.  The Clinton campaign is a dirty organization and will do anything to win - anything.  I feel for those who back her because that says they are OK with whatever she does.

I'm an Obama supporter, but I'm glad Ms. Powers resigned. Obama is an amazing diplomat and comments like that -- no matter how hypocritical it may seem for Hillary Clinton backers to condemn them, considering Hillary's inability to speak with civility -- are absolutely beneath the Obama campaign.

We count on the other candidates in this race for lowbrow political statements.

Perhaps taking the high road is something some see as weak, but in terms of capacity toward International Diplomacy, it is vital to be a fighter in spirit while weighing the words that cross your lips carefully.

Barack Obama will win this nomination based on his appeal to our better angels.

That is the same reason he will be a phenomenal President. He will continue to inspire and uplift his supporters.

We're calling for Howard Wolfson's head for equating Obama to Ken STarr.

Obama campaign:  are you guys SLEEPING?  Where's your moral outrage?  You've GOT to show people you can fight back.  If you don't, the bully will keep taking your lunch money.  And some of us will stop giving you more.  I believe in hope and I believe in change.  I don't believe in being a weakling.

WOW!!!  This is convenient... in a matter of MINUTES after First Read posts a blog that casts a negative light on Clinton low and behold this new blog entry that is detrimental (in a way) to Obama pops up.  The press' nosses are SO up Hillary's a$$ right now it makes me sick.

She just resigned.

I thought her resignation letter was very classy (although I'm not excusing her word choice).

I would be less than honest if I didn't say that I've thought a few choice things about Hillary Clinton.  Of course Power should have been more careful with the reporter.

I'm sure a lot of you Clinton supporters have thought choice thoughts about Obama too.  Its the nature of the beast when one is in a highly charged environment.

Its really too bad all the way around and I do wish Power well for all her service to the Obama campaign.

You are just scratching the surface. I can't believe that the American public can be so easily led by the nose when it comes to Hillary. I used to be a military man and I wouldn't trust her for a second with our nations security. Most presidents that turn out to be good leaders have the help of a crack staff that they can rely on. She can't even keep  her goons in check in a presidential campaign! She really needs to have her feet held to the fire on this and the MSM seems so squeamish when it comes down to "VETTING" her. I have a friend in town that is a big GOP supporter and I  told him to save me a huge McCain sign for my lawn just in case she wins the nomination.

They have been calling names and telling lies from the start. His camp is the one that started the race issue. She has done more for the black community than he has. But because he is black he is getting their vote...so is race a issue...I think so. He doesn't have the knowledge of experience to do the job, but because he's black they vote for him. I vote for the best candidate no matter what. And yes I have voted for a black candidate in the past and will again when they are right for the job.

HillartTheOgre,NC - Touch'e.

I know her from when I lived in Arkansas and her tactics have not changed.  She is not a nice person.

Obama,
please don't go negative. Keep doing what you did in IA. Even if  Hillary wins PA, she won't catch up.
We need to prove that positive politics succeeds...kepp the dream alive.
Be patient, don't be in a hurry to wrap this up. Plenty of time after June to go for McCain.

What happened to the Canada story that it was the Clinton campaign and not the Obama campaign that contacted the Canadian embassy with a "wink and a nod" regarding Nafta?  I can't believe the press is not following up on that.

Actually if you look at which campaign has had more "rookie" moments, I think you'd have to say its the Clinton campaign...

Do we want an advisor staff who has inconsistent (on message) and has had unstable team dynamics to be the advising the next President.

There have been a few blips with Obama's campaign.  Meanwhile Clinton's has been a big old mess for most to the campaign season.

Yeah, it may not be PC, but I’d have to agree on the whole “Hillary is a monster” thing.  I am newly outraged by her disgusting tactics Every.Single.Day.  I mean seriously, the crap she’s getting away with is LAUGHABLE.  

Where’s the hypocrisy meter when you need one?  The stupid Canadian NAFTA issue that Hillary HARPED and HARPED on prior to March 4 was her stupid scandal to begin with and she has the gall to criticize Obama for negative attacks?

After her “shame on you Barack Obama” hypocrisy a few weeks ago (criticizing him for an omission on his mailer when she’d mailed out outright lies about him in states prior)?

I vowed never to vote for her after she began spewing the crap about seating the FL and MI delegates, and then my vow was renewed when Bill Clinton tried to minimize Obama’s victory in SC by comparing him to Jesse Jackson (oh yeah, because they’re both black).

These latest rounds of FILTH are reasons anew to never cast a ballot in her favor.  Fortunately for me, that won’t be an issue since she can’t win now anyway.  The only thing she can do is selfishly ruin the party and tarnish Obama’s hard-earned and well-deserved image as an inspiring uniter who’s dedicated to taking us in a new direction.  

Hillary, the self-serving monster.  I’m sorry for Stephanie Powers, who should have had more restraint than she did, but you can’t say she was wrong.

Monster?  That's not dirty, it's just the cold hard truth.

Were she able to win (she is only able to destroy at this point), we would have elected , yes, a monster...

Seems like  we've seen a bit of that in the past few years or so...

It's perfectly fine for Wolfson to say Obama is Ken Starr, for Hillary to say McCain is a better candidate than Obama, and for Bob Kerrey to refer to Obama as "Hussein" and say he was schooled in a madrassa.  But one unpaid Obama campaign advisor calls Hillary a "monster," and she MUST resign/be fired immediately.  This is so utterly and laughably ridiculous.  But the media continues to allow a double standard, having been beaten into submission by Hillary and her SNL cronies.  Silly season, indeed.

[Clinton backers in Congress called on Obama to fire his top foreign policy advisor for calling Clinton a "monster" in an interview with a Scottish newspaper.]
--And which one of the Clinton campaign's faces said that?

--The whole organization is one big, multi-faced monster.  (I won't call her, personally, a monster; although, I hardly see her as a fair, reasonable, respectable person/leader).

OMG!!


Obama and Ken Starr,

change you can believe in!!! Same incendary tactics, calling a sweet adorable woman like Hillary Clinton a (    ) well, I'm not even going to say it, it is so bad.....

The politics of division is so apparent in the hollow words in the "spewing rhetoric" of Obama and friends.

SHAME SHAME SHAME,  how can anyone in good conscience say bad, nasty, negative, insulting things about our Lady of Light, Hillary Clinton, the next President of the United States of America.....

Here here....

SHAME SHAME SHAME.... Barack Obama

Obama I dont think so!!He runs on change .He puts others put front so he can look clean.Sometimes it backfires.Says he will have the best people around him.We know where that goes. He is the only one with judgement. This is based on a vote years ago that he himself says he might have done the same way.He bases everything on this though.Hopes I guess  people will forget he said he might have done same thing after he made th efamous speech and before he changed his mind and says now  oh forget it.Judgement newer than that was he said was his ties to Resko or getting caught any way and its not over.His name came up other day in court.Just what we want for our president.NOT

OMG!!


Obama and Ken Starr,

change you can believe in!!! Same incendary tactics, calling a sweet adorable woman like Hillary Clinton a (    ) well, I'm not even going to say it, it is so bad.....

The politics of division is so apparent in the hollow words in the "spewing rhetoric" of Obama and friends.

SHAME SHAME SHAME,  how can anyone in good conscience say bad, nasty, negative, insulting things about our Lady of Light, Hillary Clinton, the next President of the United States of America.....

Here here....

SHAME SHAME SHAME.... Barack Obama

Yep! This is the difference between the Obama and Clinton campaigns.  The ability to fess up and do what is right.  Something we have not had in the White House in at least 15 years.

Here's what is interesting to me.  Obama supporters here are defending Powers and noting that Clinton associates have made public fauz pas as well.  I won't argue with that.  BUT I will point out that when those faux pas have come from the Clinton camp, the cry has gone up through the Obama supporters that it was a plan by the Clinton campaign, and that person was "sacrificed" to say something the campaign couldn't say.  SO, Obamaites, it that what happened here?

ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!

Enough. When will these same members of congress feel this "outrage" over Hillary's virtual endorsement of McCain, or her equating Obama with Ken Starr?

But ONE negative statement comes from Obama's campaign, they IMMEDIATELY apologize, and we get this ridiculousness from congress. sad. ridiculous. pathetic. shameful.

Further, this was a statement of a sentiment that a lot of us are feeling, albeit not politically correct.

Hillary would rip the party and the country apart, and deny the Democrats the presidency if she doesn't win the nomination...and she will lie and cheat and do ANYTHING to do it... What would you call that behavior?

I'm going to be sick.

Oh Yeah, call for an unpaid staffer to step down, who is not part of the official campaign staff.  Don't think it is much of an issue for the Obama camp or a big loss for Power either (certainly not in earned income!)
No big deal, the Clinton camp got their way and came off the worse for it with no loss in face for Obama.  Just like Texas...a net win.

Calling Hilary a monster was nice compare3d to what she could be called!  The Clintons are BAD human beings.  America wake up!!

Kettle, meet pot.

Obama has fended off worse accusations by Clinton associates.  You'll see many on this blog.

I am rather surprised how a tough political veteran like Clinton so easily becomes a thin-skinned victim.

This has gone past sophmoric...
way past middle schoolish...
we are down to pre-school level.
The Clinton girl says the johnson girl.. called me a "monster"!!
boo hoo...
is there a monster under my bed???
mommy i'm scared of the monster!
Mommy goes to the Board of the pre-school..
asking that the johnson girl be kicked out of pre-school..
for emotional damage this has done to her little girl..
who is now deranged and emotionally disturbed...
about MONSTERS!!
The moard takes a vote and says...
we will not tolerate MONSTER CALLING in our pre-school...
the johnson girl must be punished...
she is then are bannished from pre-school.
It is the politically correct thing to do!!!!
The Clinton girl has been home resting...
consulting lawyers...
and the drudge report...
about her future!!!


Take your ball and go home!
Being called a monster....
and reacting the way you have...
doesn't sound like A FIGHTER!!

This has gone beyond ABSURD!!!!

The Clintons should fire their guy who called Obama Ken Starr. I admire Ms. Power for her courageous action. It was difficult for her to resign, but she had to do so because of what Senator Barack Obama represents. Obama is a class-act individual who will bring sanity to the presidency. However, Obama should be tougher now; it is imperative for him to show toughness and not concede any grounds to the Clintons on issues. He is more believable than the Clintons and he should sharpen his message. Demanding for the Clintons to release their tax returns is legitimate. Obama should continue to demand that. The Clintons should not wait till April 15th to release the tax returns unless they are hiding something. Prince George

Calling Hillery a monster is putting it mild, very mild, its a difference between Hot Sauce and Mild Sauce. Frankly I would have gone for the Hot Sauce. One thing I have learned over the years with the Clintons, they will do and say anything to win, but let someone use some mild adjectives to describe them and they act like someone just stoled their lunch money. Grow up Clintons.

I think Wolfson should be asked to quit for calling Obama, Ken Starr and Hillary should quit for comparing Obama to Karl Rove. Very simple.

Say, does not Rodham and Sadham rhyme?  Is not that the qualification to being Muslim.  If it rhymes it got to be true.

First Read, it has widely been reported that Ms. Powers has resigned.  Now you post that the Clintons are calling for her "head!"  Curious at least.

Clinton refused to fire anyone related to releasing the Obama pic in Somali dress...she refused to fire anyone spreading lies about his drug use...She did not 'denounce' her surogates for the 'chuck & jive' comments, among others. Then she makes up a story to cover her own ass about the Canadian leak to win Ohio.    

Sounds like a really great person to have in the White House. We love a President with double standards, is a liar, and will 'say anything but will do nothing'. Oh wait..we've had that for the past 8 years.

Release your tax returns Hillary! Return the campaign funds you received from the company embroiled in sexual harassment charges!  She is the most unethical politician ever.  

Go away Hillary

At least the Obama camp has the balls to can people who engage in personal attacks, and stand on principle.  Maybe if the Clintons did that, half of the country would not already hate their guts.

Samantha Power has resigned.  Now let's shift the focus on what caused a comment such as this to be made in the first place.  In the past week, Hillary has aligned herself with John McCain making it very clear that if she doesn't win the nomination, she'd rather see the democratic party go up in smoke before Obama gets the nomination.  It came out that it was the Clinton campaign that gave the nod and wink to the Canadians about NAFTA.  Obama was compared to Ken Starr because he dared to reiterate a request for her tax returns.  

Are these monstrous acts?  I guess we'll have to wait until the convention to see if Hillary has managed to lay waste to the democratic party in her bid for the nomination.

OBWAN,IN

I am from New York and witnessed, Hillary the Ogre first hand with her sleaze.  Cmon Igor we must go back to the lab and develop a formula to kill the evil ogre.

As I understand it, they were calling for her head at around the same time as she was resigning.  It was pretty much a simultaneous event.  First Read really posted the stories around the same time.

This just getting out of hand.  The CLINTON CAMP is making me just so very irritated.  If SHE is the nominee or the on the ticket - I WILL NOT VOTE for anything with her on it. The sneaky tactics, the pot-calling-the-kettle-black-stuff, is just too crazy.  Nobody belly-ached when Clinton's advisors said something about Obama and cocaine.  Nobody belly-ached when her people played the race card.  But once again, MSNBC, FOX, CNN - all of the major networks are forsaking journalism for gossip and it just stinks.  I have to think of Bill Clinton sitting back in his chair with a cigar and saying in his voice, "See, Hillary - I told you, let me show you how to do this, it's all working out.  Just give the media some bait, and they'll bite..."  And they say together... "Every time!!"
WOW MSNBC... hook, line and sinker.  

THANK GOD FOR SAMANTHA POWER! - Hey someone had to say it sooner of later. Mrs. Clinton is totally doubletstandarding this. She should not be treated as woman but as a pitbull who will eat your kids. Do America want to really see Clinton poliutics again haven't we all been enlightened yet?

THANK GOD FOR SAMANTHA POWER! - Hey someone had to say it sooner of later. Mrs. Clinton is totally doubletstandarding this. She should not be treated as woman but as a pitbull who will eat your kids. Does America want to really see Clinton politics again haven't we all been enlightened yet?

Clinton backers call for Powers head..and poof..she's gone...

Obama backers are all over the internet news boards calling for the same level of coverage be given to  the Clinton campaigns role in the Canadian Nafta-gate issue...but there is nothing to be found without a lot of hefty digging.

Perhaps this is why Billary does not wish to release those tax returns, as they may very well show huge income from stock ownership in of all the major media outlets.

That would at least explain how they have been able to use the media as one big FALSE ad campaign and at the same time, explain their unchallenged ability to squelch any story that would prove such.

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