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Clinton: Cheney Lacks Credibility
Irakli Gedenidze, AFP / Getty Images
Hillary Clinton has thrown off the gloves and jumped into the debate raging over the torture memos. Speaking at the House Foreign Affairs Committee today, Congressman Dana Rohrbacher of California pressed Hillary Clinton to persuade Obama to release all the relevant torture documents, as Dick Cheney has requested. "Well, it won't surprise you, I don't consider him a particularly reliable source of information," Clinton replied, eliciting laughter from the crowd. The congressman was not amused and pressed further, but Clinton only added that it was important to "get to the bottom of this entire matter."
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wbishop12
Hillary, YOU'RE AWESOME!!!
LOL!!!
Just to keep an clear understanding of what we're talking about, torture is always wrong. ALWAYS! Even if torturing one of these creeps did provide info, still wrong.
shortcourse
Define torture! Take a look at how congress has defined torture after 9-11. Educate yourself before you speak.
citivas
If you really what to split hairs "defining torture" then you've already demonstrated your lack of moral or ethical credibility.
Hawnzz
Torture is having to listen to "Dubya" murder the english language for 8 years.
wbishop12
Oh, I made it past third grade shorty! So that puts me quite a bit higher than you in the intellectual arena. HAHAHAHAHHAHA!!
tiotom77
OMG... Did Hillary make a personal attack on Cheney. The question was about releasing documents, not if she trusted Cheney... Be honest and release the documents.
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n--Y--tavallaisonofloud
lol go Hillary!
connie47
"Cheney lacks credibility." Well, that's putting it mildly. LOL
Redhead5050
Hillary is awesome!!! Cheney needs to go back to the Death Star on the dark side where he belongs. He even breathes like Darth Vader....ha ha ha
tiotom77
Hillary is the weakest secretary of state ever in American history..Bring Back Condi Rice
buddio33
hillary sucks
TK798999
Hillary should have stayed in the Senate. She's hurting her credibility by aligning herself with Obama who is proving to be a disaster. Hillary should be President, speaking her own truth, not his.
I ranted against Bush/Cheney for 8 years, but Obama is proving to be worse than Bush. Far worse. Obama was wrong to release the "torture" memos. Very wrong. Hillary knows better.
roger37
"Obama is proving to be worse than Bush." Why? Because he is providing leadership? Because he has taken more action in the first 90 days of his presidency than Bush took in the first 6 months? And I'll bet he doesn't take a 5 week vacation like George did, while 911 was planned and implemented.
And BHO was not wrong to release the torture memos unless, of course, you think torture is a good thing and not a complete collapse of the moral platform of the USA.
Grundy
roger37-
Obama "providing leadership" - you have got to be kidding. He takes his marching orders from the Democratic leadership and is warned not to step outside of their directions. On his world tour he spent more time putting down America and back stabbing Americans than any other American President has done before him - and that it saying alot considering the great likes of Clinton and Carter the two other baffoons of America. He checks with Soros in the morning to see what the 'master' wants him to do during the day - leadership is taking a stand and having a backbone to say things that need to be said and not kneeling at the alter of Soros, Pelosi and the boys.
shortcourse
You idiot! 9-11 was planned during the Clinton administration, trained during the Clinton administration...and unfortuneatly for 3000 people, carried out under the first months of Bush because the terrorist knew they had to act fast. You history rewriters really piss me off.
citivas
shortcourse, September 2001 was not exactly "the first few months" of Bush's term. By that standard, you would agree that no one should be judging Obama for anything yet since he hasn't been in office even half as long...
roger37
Hey, shortcourse: While the long term planning for 9-11 probably occurred when Clinton was still in office, the actual plans--flights, deployment of terrorists, boxcutter weapons, etc. certainly didn't take longer than 8 months.
And on August 8, interrupting his needed vacation after 7 long months on the job, George W heard the presentation of a Presidential Daily Brief that was headlined, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US." And he said to the staffer, "OK, you've covered your ass, now let's move along to something important."
And Grundy, you, as usual, make these wild accusations about Democratic leadership and George Soros and you don't have anything to back it all up. BHO is saying things that need to be said---like stopping torture, doing something about the economy (the Repub leadership wants to freeze spending, just like Hoobert Heever). You just don't like what it being said by BHO because you are too uniformed to understand basic economic theory.
roger37
Woops---that's "uninformed", not "uniformed."
tiotom77
He's going to Iowa for "Earth Day"..Couldn't he find an event in D.C....Every time he hops on Air Force One his "carbon footprint" grows
Ritarita
POST POLICE
Mr. tiotom77
I'm sorry sir
This is identical
To the Earth Day post
You left this morning
am 9:29
On POSEURS blog.
MrCleaveland
Worse than Bush? Wow, the honeymoon is definitely over.
roger37
Way to go, Hilary! She went to my high school and I'm really proud of her. She's doing exactly what she did when she was elected Senator from NY-- keeping her head down and doing the work without excess showboating.
Cheney needs to exposed for the lunatic that he is.
MrCleaveland
Right, no showboating at all. Flinging childish insults at the former vice president isn't showboating, it's . . . uh . . . it's . . . oh, I know, it's mature dialog.
Gimme a break.
connie47
You have to be joking, right? Cheney goes on Faux News over and over to attack the administration on every level and you don't find that to be "flinging childish insults?" Keep on practicing your lockstep.
mattbenzor
Hillary's bashing vice dictator while her husband is holding hands with the dictator you know what they say about the brotherthood right bill and george once a freemason always a freemason.They always come to one another's rescue it does'nt surprise me.
roger37
Enough with the freemason stuff, already! Nobody cares.
And learn how to write without run-on sentences. Takes too long to decipher your posts.
philipjames
Right....... and Clinton has credibility? LOL
always depend on the stupidity of the American people and their long term memory losses...
tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth...
the slogan of the current American society
MaliciousDisorder
Did a Clinton mention credibility ?
squiggy
Clinton talking about credibility issues is truly a laugh.
shortcourse
He is a better standup comedian than a statesman.
MrCleaveland
Right, because whenever I hear the word "credibility," the first thing I think of is a Clinton.
(Does she have any idea at all how stupid she sounds? Guess not.)
citivas
Your comment says more about you that her.
roger37
Credibility on the part of the Clintons? Well, Kenneth Starr (remember him?) spent over $70 MILLION trying to prove that Bill and Hillary did something illegal while they were in Arkansas and when they were in the White House.
And Starr, that legal luminary, came up with Bill shtupping an intern. Bill Clinton's sexual proclivities were well known before that, and they didn't find anything else. And they found zero on Hillary, regardless of what the loony-tunes Richard Mellon Scaife sycophants say. Zero. So put your money where your mouth is when it comes to Clinton credibility, or crawl back into your hole somewhere in the Slave States and wait for the South to rise again.
joefrat
They found zero on Hillary? How quickly we forget "whitewater" - get a clue roger37.
Ritarita
joe
What did they
Find
On Whitewater?
I'm sorry I missed that
Could you elaborate?
roger37
Hey, joefrat: That's the whole point, fahchrissakes! They spent $70 mil, starting with Whitewater, and they couldn't find zip! So you get a clue, schmuck.
davidwaters
Torture will not make any friends overseas, and today, international cooperation is really necessary to solve some of the most pressing issues in the world such as malaria, measles, and malnutrition. The Borgen Project has good info on the estimated cost of ending global poverty:
$30 billion: Annual shortfall to end world hunger.
$550 billion: U.S. Defense budget.
squiggy
$1 billion in US aide to Africa last year.
squiggy
Make that $100 billion in aide to Africa 2008.
edomejn
Isn't it time for Cheney to go back to his undisclosed location. I sure do miss that part of the Bush Adminstration
MaliciousDisorder
Carter or Clinton never went away, Hope fully others will join Cheney and let the world know how right they were. Just wait until the first pizza parlor blows up in America,
citivas
See this is the problem. A small minority of you have convinced yourselves that "they were right" while the rest of us and the world shake our heads in pity that you just don't get it.
hardrain
"Just wait until the first pizza parlor blows up in America"
Hey brightboy-dollars to doughnuts it won't the super scary mocha skinned Arab of your nightmares. The next act of home-soil terrorism is going to come from some hysterical right wingnut, armed to the teeth and pushed to the brink by douchbags (Cheney, O'Reilly) and dipshits (Hannity, Beck).
sbvpav
am sure cheney's "proof" of the efficacy of torture (and this from someone who had 7 deferments from the vietnam war) is in the safe with his "proof" saddam had weapons of mass destruction and his "proof" saddam was behind 9/11.
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