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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peter Dierks who wrote (13757)	8/25/2007 2:08:21 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224748

Hilarious headline>Sen Clinton says she's best in a terrorist attack: Ben Smith, politico.com, Aug 24 2005 Some puzzled buzz among Democrats about remarks Sen. Clinton made at what the AP's Holly Ramer calls "a backyard gathering of supporters" in Concord, N.H., on Thursday. According to the AP's story, Clinton said she also would be better than rivals at handling the unexpected, including a terrorist attack. "It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world. So I think I'm the best of the Democrats to deal with that, as well." Whoa. Was she playing the terror card? Isn't that the other team’s playbook? From Washington, the New York Post's Geoff Earle writes up the AP quotes with the headline, "HILL: TERROR WOULD BE GOP BOOST." A little bird with an elephant's memory reminds us that in the past, Clinton has maintained, as she did in The Washington Post in April, that terrorism "shouldn't be a Democratic fight or a Republican fight." Back in 2005, the Albany Times-Union wrote that she had told the newspaper's editorial board that the Bush administration had used the war on terror as a "political tool" to frighten Americans into submission. And last year, speaking to a United Auto Workers legislative policy conference in Washington, she lambasted Republicans by saying: "Contrary to Franklin Roosevelt, who had nothing to fear but fear itself, this crowd is, 'All we got is fear and we're going to keep playing the fear card.'"<