And So It Goes

[March. 5, 2008]

CHICAGO - [Democratic Sen. Barack Obama] said he planned to do more in the days ahead to raise doubts about [Hillary Clinton's] claims to foreign policy and other Washington experience. In a television ad that her campaign credits with helping her win, she portrayed herself as most prepared to handle an international crisis.

"What exactly is this foreign policy experience?" Obama asked mockingly. "Was she negotiating treaties? Was she handling crises? The answer is no."

MSNBC

[March 2008]

Obama told the crowd in Westerville, Ohio, "I have to say when it came to making the most important foreign policy decision of our generation, Sen. Clinton got it wrong."

AIM

[March 2008 Obama Campaign memo]

There is no doubt that Hillary Clinton played an important domestic policy role when she was First Lady. It is well known, for example, that she led the failed effort to pass universal health insurance. There is no reason to believe, however, that she was a key player in foreign policy at any time during the Clinton Administration. She did not sit in on National Security Council meetings. She did not have a security clearance. She did not attend meetings in the Situation Room. She did not manage any part of the national security bureaucracy, nor did she have her own national security staff. She did not do any heavy-lifting with foreign governments, whether they were friendly or not. She never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis.

[...]

On the most critical foreign policy judgment of our generation - the War in Iraq - Senator Clinton voted in support of a resolution entitled "The Joint Resolution to Authorize the Use of U.S. Military Force Against Iraq." As she cast that vote, she said: "This is probably the hardest decision I have ever had to make -- any vote that may lead to war should be hard -- but I cast it with conviction." In this campaign, Senator Clinton has argued - remarkably - that she wasn't actually voting for war, she was voting for diplomacy. That claim is no more credible than her other claims of foreign policy experience. The real tragedy is that we are still living with the terrible consequences of her misjudgment.

Huffington Post

[ December 1, 2008]

President-elect Barack Obama named his Democratic primary-season rival Sen. Hillary Clinton to be his secretary of state on Monday, giving his one-time bitter opponent a plum cabinet position as conflict confronted the U.S. in South Asia and the Middle East.

Market Watch

So, she’s not qualified, but she gets the position anyway? Hey, at least Dubya thinks his inexperienced evangelical yes-men are qualified for the positions he put them in. (I never thought I’d be defending the incompetent, megalomaniacal SOB. I guess change has indeed come.)

....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.