What they’re saying about Hillary Clinton – 4/04/10
Every week I’m taking a look at some of the more interesting and sometimes off-beat comments the world media has to say about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here are a few choice excerpts for this week’s report –
Clinton criticism ‘tempest in a teapot,’ Cannon says
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was expressing her personal opinion when she criticized Canada’s maternal health initiative, not the policy of the Obama administration, Foreign Affairs Minister Lawrence Cannon said Sunday.
“Mrs. Clinton expressed not her government’s position; she expressed her personal point of view … her personal opinion,” Cannon told CTV’s Question Period.
But in the wake of Clinton’s criticism of the Canadian initiative, a key foreign policy program for the Conservative government going into this summer’s G8 summit, Cannon acknowledged that the Canadian plan may have to be amended.
CTV 04/04/2010
Hillary Clinton’s Meddling
by Peter Wehner
The ideological extremism of the Obama administration keeps popping up on an almost daily basis, like a game of whack-a-mole. The latest example comes to us courtesy of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who was in Canada, where she was lecturing Canadians on how they should be more pro-abortion.
Secretary Clinton’s comments were made in the context of the Canadian government’s G8 maternal and child health initiative. According to Clinton: “You cannot have maternal health without reproductive health. And reproductive health includes contraception and family planning and access to legal, safe abortion.”
So here’s a question: can you imagine Henry Kissinger or Dean Acheson ever saying such a thing? Hillary Clinton is Secretary of State; she’s not the president of Planned Parenthood. And for an administration that insists it shouldn’t meddle in the internal affairs of other nations — unless it means making life considerably more difficult for our allies like Honduras and Israel — this is quite remarkable.
Commentary Magazine 04/01/2010
AIPAC’s Embrace of Hillary Clinton: Civility or Stupidity
Clinton’s performance should have surprised no one. As Secretary of State with marching orders from her President, she was merely articulating Mr. Obama’s anti-Israel agenda despite her fuzzy claims of support. Obama’s true feelings regarding Israel were apparent from the early days of his campaign based on his personal, political and philosophical allegiances to the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Louis Farrakhan, Rashid Khalidi, Jimmy Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski. Despite these troubling relationships, Obama kept a reasonably low profile on controversial Mideast issues during the campaign, and he was aided by liberal Jews who shamelessly vouched for his mythical pro-Israel and philo-semitic bona fides.
Israpundit 04/04/2010
Karzai calls Clinton to ‘clarify’
Afghan President Karzai called Secretary Clinton today to clarify his statements from yesterday, and they had a constructive conversation,” Assistant Secretary Philip J. Crowley said in a statement. “President Karzai reaffirmed his commitment to the partnership between our two countries and expressed his appreciation for the contributions and sacrifices of the international community. They pledged to continue working together in a spirit of partnership.”
It was a “constructive conversation in a cordial environment,” said Karzai spokesman Waheed Omer. “President Karzai said the Afghan people and the Afghan government were grateful for the support and sacrifice of the international community for peace in Afghanistan and in the world.
Politico 04/03/2010
Hillary Clinton Spends $5.4 Million on Crystal Stemware for State Department
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies — but it won’t give the US economy much of a boost.
The contract was given to a tiny Washington, DC, interior designer, which in turn subcontracted the crystal work to a Swedish firm — snubbing such US companies as the famous manufacturer in Clinton’s own back yard, Steuben Crystal of upstate Corning.
The firm didn’t even get a chance to bid on the contract, which will outfit embassies and ambassadors’ residences with fancy crystal for ritzy functions.
The Dana Show 03/17/2010
What they’re saying about Hillary Clinton – 3/28/10
Every week I’m taking a look at some of the more interesting and sometimes off-beat comments the world media has to say about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here are a few choice excerpts for this week’s report –
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi share some laughs.
Tennesee Guerilla Women 3/25/2010
Norman Finkelstein Responds to Clinton, Netanyahu AIPAC Comments
I’m sure all of your listeners and your viewers are familiar with the magnitude of US aid to Israel. I think the important development is what Amnesty International said after the invasion of Gaza.
They said three main things: number one, that the US is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel; number two, supplying those weapons to Israel is not only illegal under international law, it’s illegal under domestic US law; and number three, it said—and I think it’s important for your viewers to hear it—Amnesty International said what happened in Gaza could—and they describe what happened in Gaza as twenty-two days of death and destruction—what happened in Gaza could not have happened were it not for US taxpayer money.
And now along comes Hillary Clinton, and she’s extolling US military aid to Israel. The part that she left out is, number one, it’s all illegal under international and domestic US law, and number two, it was that US aid that made possible—you have to bear in mind—I know your program chronicled the use of the white phosphorus—every white phosphorus shell they found—you can see it in the Human Rights Watch report on the white phosphorus—every one was made in the United States. We are responsible for that war. It’s not just a cliché. It’s a factual matter. We made that massacre happen.
Axis of Logic 3/27/2010
Chavez: Clinton thinks US owns ‘the continent’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scorns US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an ancient thinker, charging her with interfering in Venezuelan domestic affairs.
“She still considers herself the imperial lady. She is behind the times,” Chavez said during his visit to Ecuador on Friday.
“She still thinks the United States is the owner of this continent,” he added.
Press TV 3/27/2010
U.N. soiree may feature Clinton vs. Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to grab the spotlight with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Haitian President Rene Preval at a major fundraiser next week and in the process shove her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to the sidelines.
U.N. sources say Hillary, representing the Obama White House, will be a “central” figure at the U.N.’s Haiti Donor Conference to be convened at the organization’s New York City headquarters Wednesday. Bill Clinton, as special envoy, has been the U.N.’s point man on Haitian relief efforts over the last several months.
World Net Daily 3/27/2010
What they’re saying about Hillary Clinton – 3/21/10
Every week I’m taking a look at some of the more interesting and sometimes off-beat comments the world media has to say about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here are a few choice excerpts for this week’s report –
Women In The World: Stories And Solutions’ Summit Draws Hillary Clinton, Queen Rania To New York
The conference opened Friday evening with remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who brought her daughter, Chelsea, along. The audience watched a clip of Clinton, as first lady, making her famous remarks at the 1995 U.N. women’s conference in Beijing, where she declared that “Women’s rights are human rights.”
Clinton quipped that those remarks came “15 years and many hairstyles ago.” Progress had been made, she joked, on both fronts. Turning serious, she called progress “undeniable, but insufficient.”
The Huffington Post 3/14/10
What Would Hillary Have Done?
Posted by Kevin Winge
Although many people discount Hillary Clinton’s eight years as First Lady, that time in Washington, combined with eight years as a U.S. senator, provided her with more than four times the D.C. beltway experience than that of the first-term senator from Illinois. Given those experiences and the relationships that Clinton cultivated, had she assumed the presidency with the same majorities in Congress and the Senate that Obama enjoyed, it is likely that much more legislation would have been passed in the first year of a Hillary Clinton administration. Included in that legislation might have been health care reform that wouldn’t have left the nation black and blue from all of the posturing, bickering and verbal assaults we have endured over the past year.
Star Tribune – Your Voices 3/18/10
Hillary Clinton’s Personal Vendetta Against The State of Israel
If you scour the internet about Hillary’s reaction and outlash against Israel last week, you will see countless accounts of what pundits and journalists deem a “surprising” and “heated” overreaction against the Israelis. Well, it’s all about the scorn of Hillary Clinton and it brings up a dangerous idea. What happens when an official of the United States can seriously damage the relationship between America and one of its biggest friends and allies all due to a personal grudge?
Holger Awakens 3/18/10
From Bitter Campaign to Strong Alliance
Sixteen months after Mr. Obama surprised nearly everyone by picking her as secretary of state, the two have again surprised nearly everyone by forging a credible partnership. Mrs. Clinton has proved to be an eager team player, a tireless defender of the administration, ever deferential to Mr. Obama and careful to ensure that her husband, the former president, does not upstage her boss. Mr. Obama has been solicitous of Mrs. Clinton, yielding to her at times in internal debates, even showing signs of adopting some of her more hawkish world views.
They now joke about their “frenemies” status and have made gestures toward each other’s families. When Mr. Obama learned that Chelsea Clinton had become engaged, he turned to Mrs. Clinton and asked, “Does she want a White House wedding?” a senior official recalled.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 3/19/10
