Sunday, February 12, 2006
Hillary Clinton on Card Playing
Whichever side denounces the other for politicizing the issue is losing the argument.
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA).
Hillary Clinton, in a speech last week said that Republicans are politicizing national security. Apparently channeling the strategists on the right, Clinton said the GOP election message is: "All we've got is fear and we're going to keep playing the fear card."
What card are the Democrats playing?
And I'm going to sound like a skipping CD here (notice the update to the broken record analogy), OK, we've heard your criticisms (a lot), where are the things you are for? What is the Democrat's positive agenda to fight the war radical islamicists have brought against us?
Here is part of what they said in September 2005:
We must use every tool at our disposal--including military force--to capture, kill or disrupt international terrorists who are intent on attacking our homeland and our citizens, as well as our interests in other parts of the world.
They say that, but they oppose our using every tool nearly every time. It's pointless to capture international terrorists if you can't keep them in captivity. Who is opposing the detention of known terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba? Republicans or Democrats? Who's opposing killing international terrorists intent on attacking our forces and civilian contractors in Iraq and instead immediately bugging out? Republicans or Democrats? Who is opposed to our trying to disrupt international terrorists intent on attacking our homeland by warrantless surveillance on international communications of known or merely suspected al Qaeda members? Let me put that a different way, who supports extending to al Qaeda members 4th Amendment rights so that there can be no surveillance without probable cause? Republicans or Democrats? Who bragged to applause (yet was completely wrong) that the Democrats have "killed" the PATRIOT Act (one of the major tools to disrupt attacks here)? Democrats or Republicans?
It is the Democrats' actions which speaks volumns, and when Hillary Clinton says, as she did in the same speech quoted from above, that: "I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to fighting terrorism and standing up for national homeland security," who actually believes her?
Representative Barney Frank (D-MA).
Hillary Clinton, in a speech last week said that Republicans are politicizing national security. Apparently channeling the strategists on the right, Clinton said the GOP election message is: "All we've got is fear and we're going to keep playing the fear card."
What card are the Democrats playing?
And I'm going to sound like a skipping CD here (notice the update to the broken record analogy), OK, we've heard your criticisms (a lot), where are the things you are for? What is the Democrat's positive agenda to fight the war radical islamicists have brought against us?
Here is part of what they said in September 2005:
We must use every tool at our disposal--including military force--to capture, kill or disrupt international terrorists who are intent on attacking our homeland and our citizens, as well as our interests in other parts of the world.
They say that, but they oppose our using every tool nearly every time. It's pointless to capture international terrorists if you can't keep them in captivity. Who is opposing the detention of known terrorists at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba? Republicans or Democrats? Who's opposing killing international terrorists intent on attacking our forces and civilian contractors in Iraq and instead immediately bugging out? Republicans or Democrats? Who is opposed to our trying to disrupt international terrorists intent on attacking our homeland by warrantless surveillance on international communications of known or merely suspected al Qaeda members? Let me put that a different way, who supports extending to al Qaeda members 4th Amendment rights so that there can be no surveillance without probable cause? Republicans or Democrats? Who bragged to applause (yet was completely wrong) that the Democrats have "killed" the PATRIOT Act (one of the major tools to disrupt attacks here)? Democrats or Republicans?
It is the Democrats' actions which speaks volumns, and when Hillary Clinton says, as she did in the same speech quoted from above, that: "I take a back seat to nobody when it comes to fighting terrorism and standing up for national homeland security," who actually believes her?
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 9:18 AM 
