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Home Front: WoT
Hillary Clinton vows to end paranoia of George Bush era
2009-01-22
In a clear reference to George W Bush's obsession with national security after the September 11 attacks, Mrs Clinton said: "I don't get up every morning just thinking about the threats and dangers as real as they are. I also get up thinking about who we are and what we can do."

Addressing staff members of the 18,000-strong state department on her first day at work, she proclaimed a "new era for America".

"We are not any longer going to tolerate the kind of divisiveness that has paralysed and undermined our ability to get things done for America," she said.

"There are three legs to foreign policy: defence, diplomacy and development, and we are responsible for two of those," she told cheering officials crammed into the main hall of the department's Washington headquarters.

"Diplomacy and development are essential tools in achieving the long term objectives of the United States. Robust diplomacy and effective development are the best long-term tools for securing America's future," said the 61-year-old former first lady, who supervises the US Agency for International Development.
Notice how easily the MSM continues to push that George Bush didn't do any diplomacy or development, when in fact he constantly worked with recalcitrant Europeans, supported the EU talks with Iran, did diplomacy with the Norks, pushed development, anti-malaria and anti-AIDS programs in Africa, and so on.
She was later joined by President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, in a show of solidarity aimed to assure the state department that it would again be the primary agency of foreign policy. "We want to send a clear and unequivocal message: this is a team, and you are members of that team," she said.
Even if you're a bunch of back-stabbers ...
Former president Bush allowed the Pentagon to lead the country into war in Iraq under Donald Rumsfeld and then take charge of a reconstruction process that went badly awry. Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state in Mr Bush's first term, was sidelined in policy-making by both Mr Rumsfeld and former vice president Dick Cheney.

Her sure-footed performance served as a reminder of the political and communication skills that led Mr Obama to select her as the top US diplomat, quickly burying any lingering bitterness from their battle for the Democratic nomination. She will act as the new president's representative as they tackle a daunting array of challenges, including unfinished wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the troubled Middle East peace process, climate change and Iran's nuclear ambitions.
Good luck with getting 'diplomacy and development' to make a dent in any of those agenda items unless diplomacy becomes defined as "doing whatever our betters in Europe want us to do" and development becomes defined as "giving away the store" ...
She spent her first afternoon telephoning her foreign counterparts, receiving an intelligence briefing and consulting various regional experts.
Posted by:tipper

#18  48 hours and the Obama regime has already started a trade war with China by calling them 'currency manipulators'.

US Treasuries have fallen, as traders anticipate China retaliation.

Just what the world economy needs, a US - China trade war.
Posted by: phil_b   2009-01-22 21:17  

#17  She can only blame him for a short while longer. Then it's all her. With that said, 1,457 day left of this administration. Not that anyone else is counting....
Posted by: 49 Pan   2009-01-22 21:09  

#16  There are three legs to foreign policy..

Your hubby's got three legs, if you know what I mean...
Posted by: Raj   2009-01-22 19:57  

#15  Former president Bush allowed the Pentagon

Allowed? WTF?

to lead the country into war in Iraq under Donald Rumsfeld and then take charge of a reconstruction process that went badly awry. Colin Powell, who served as secretary of state in Mr Bush's first term, was sidelined in policy-making by both Mr Rumsfeld and former vice president Dick Cheney.

That's because his ideas sucked, not because he was a RINO.
Posted by: KBK   2009-01-22 18:35  

#14  To be replaced by the new 'Improved' fear of actual Obama Brownshirts.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2009-01-22 18:34  

#13  When you've got no idea about how to actually get stuff done, all you have to differentiate yourself is propaganda words like "paranoia".
Posted by: Cynicism Inc   2009-01-22 18:16  

#12  Dear God, but this is gonna be a LONG four years...
Posted by: Dave D.   2009-01-22 17:58  

#11  Um, Hillary........

I seem to remember certain remarks about a vast right wing conspiracy.

Pot. Kettle. Black.
Posted by: no mo uro   2009-01-22 17:53  

#10  Considering we haven't been hit again since 9/11/01, that we have waged two wars while keeping troops supplied through multiple time zones and countries, that a couple nations gave up nuclear programs, that we have allies fighting with us in Afghanistan... I think 'ol W was quite successful in his foreign policy.

We'll see if Bambi and the Witch of the West do any better.
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-01-22 17:29  

#9  Hillary Clinton vowing to end paranoia. Dear heavens, that's funny! Aw, Hillsie, sweetheart, you slay me! Slay me!
Posted by: Mike   2009-01-22 17:12  

#8  There are people who would like to kill us. I would like the government that is responsible for our defense to be a little paranoid about that. By the way, wasn't 9/11 mostly masterminded during the Clinton administration?
Posted by: Darrell   2009-01-22 16:45  

#7  It's not paranoia when the really are trying to kill you.

Obama, Dennis Blair, Hillary and their ilk are going to get a bunch of us killed.
Posted by: Parabellum   2009-01-22 16:33  

#6  Development. It's hard to get the State Department involved when State Department personnel won't go where the development is needed (which is why the Military wound up doing it).
Posted by: tipover   2009-01-22 15:32  

#5  The way I see it She's one of the ones who started, promoted, and nurtured the hatred, now she fears it'l backlash, (On her).

Hard when you have to kill your own creation.
Posted by: Rednek Jim   2009-01-22 14:40  

#4  

What Lame Stream Media refuses to acknowledge is that the home coming Bush got in Texas shows a lot of people were greatfull for the "paranoia".
Posted by: Bertie Slomorong2188   2009-01-22 14:39  

#3  "I don't get up every morning just thinking about the threats and dangers as real as they are." Excellent! That simply indicates you no longer wish to be president.

The Hildebeast for Rice. The ultimate example of a zero-sum game. Yawn.

Posted by: Besoeker   2009-01-22 14:30  

#2  Sorry tu3031 you are wrong. If we get hit again these people will be seen as responsble (burnt toast) no more than they were see responsible for WTC 1, USS Cole, Embassy bombings, or logically even WTC 2.

These are the self-anointed elite, the light workers that according to their propaganda machine (aka MSM) and their sycophants and allies abroad will never be responsible for anything except success.
Posted by: AlanC   2009-01-22 14:26  

#1  In a clear reference to George W Bush's obsession with national security after the September 11 attacks...

Really. I mean, why would he be obsessed about national security after that?
We get hit again, these people are burnt toast.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-01-22 14:18  

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