http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/us/politics/26clinton.html?sq=hillary%20clinton%20did%20not%20have%20security%20clearance&st=cse&scp=2&pagewanted=print

The New York Times

December 26, 2007
The Long Run
The Résumé Factor: Those 2 Terms as First Lady
By PATRICK HEALY

As first lady, Hillary Rodham Clinton jaw-boned the authoritarian president of Uzbekistan to leave his car and shake hands with people. She argued with the Czech prime minister about democracy. She cajoled Roman Catholic and Protestant women to talk to one another in Northern Ireland. She traveled to 79 countries in total, little of it leisure; one meeting with mutilated Rwandan refugees so unsettled her that she threw up afterward.

But during those two terms in the White House, Mrs. Clinton did not hold a security clearance. She did not attend National Security Council meetings. She was not given a copy of the president’s daily intelligence briefing. She did not assert herself on the crises in Somalia, Haiti and Rwanda.

And during one of President Bill Clinton’s major tests on terrorism, whether to bomb Afghanistan and Sudan in 1998, Mrs. Clinton was barely speaking to her husband, let alone advising him, as the Lewinsky scandal sizzled.

In seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, Mrs. Clinton lays claim to two traits nearly every day: strength and experience. But as the junior senator from New York, she has few significant legislative accomplishments to her name. She has cast herself, instead, as a first lady like no other: a full partner to her husband in his administration, and, she says, all the stronger and more experienced for her “eight years with a front-row seat on history.”

We should expect nothing less than this garbage from her until she's forced out. She threw the sink last week, the toilet last night on 60 minutes; now she's getting a crane and throwing the entire kitchen and bathroom at him. Good luck with that, Gloria Steinem Klinton. Let's see how fast team Obama is up with another response that further humiliates you.

Fighting Bill Hussein

You know what's interesting? I think Hillary does a disservice by appearing in her own ads. If she gets the nomination, I think she would (at least try) to do great things as President. But I really don't see it ever happening, because people don't seem to like Hillary. They just don't. Even her supporters tend to praise her (potentially) negative traits - stubborn, fighter, ruthless - but that's not what a lot of people vote on. It's why Reagan won. It's why Bush won. It's why Bill Clinton won. Both McCain and Obama seem to be more genuine, natural candidates than Hillary, and in a general election, I think she loses big because people are turned off by who she is. And it's not a sexist thing. It's that some candidates don't connect with people. Dukakis, Al Gore, John Kerry. People voted for them, but begrudgingly and without enthusiasm. And they all lost.

I will say that the first ad about judgment is a good ad by the Hillary camp. They should have been running it sooner.

Hey, Greg, I notice that Krugman has a predictable anti-Obama column today. Even Halperin noticed it. You going to write the same kind of post that you did when Maureen Dowd had her predictable anti-Clinton column? Or does this knife cut only one way?

I love the new Clinton ad...

Obama totally glossed over the point of the "red phone" ad (preparation to handle a crisis) and tried to make it about "judgement"

So Clinton responds by glossing over the "judgement" issue, and makes it about Obama's failure to prioritize national security issues.

(i do wish that Clinton would defend herself better on Iraq --- she should ask Obama flat out if he opposed US leadership of the broad international coalition that threw Saddam out of Kuwait -- and point out that when the AUMF was passed, the international community was just as supportive of official US policy toward Iraq as it was with Kuwait.)

Yes, I'm totally changing my view of her now that I see her in glasses.

judgement what kind of judgement is voting present 139 times in ill???,,,,,,this guy is a con artist

SHAME ON YOU, HILLARY CLINTON!!! You are a liar and a con artist!!! The truth is...

1. A different Foreign Relations Subcommittee chaired by John Kerry has jurisdiction over Afghanistan. And the full Foreign Relations Committee was the one that held several hearings on the military efforts there.

2. As for being "too busy campaigning" to do their jobs... Clinton and McCain are both using that excuse! McCain was "too busy" to vote on the Economic Stimulus Package. Hillary was "too busy" to vote on Chris Dodd's amendment NOT to grant immunity to the telecom companies and protect our civil liberties AND "too busy" to turn over her income tax returns (which we all know we will NEVER SEE).

You are such a snake!!! Drop out now before you completely destroy our party!!!

Sorry, has any of the Obama ads or literature been posted for us to comment on?

Ah, I'm so sick of this whole thing. Thanks Hillary, for working so hard to make me despise you.

It took a lot of effort, but you really are tenacious, and you completely pulled it off! Good job!

Obama has lost any kind of cred when he criticizes Hillary for her Iraq vote if he means what was said over the weekend that he'd have a bi-partisan cabinet and would bring in Chuck Hagel, who voted lockstep whenever the president needed his iraq vote.

Sorry Obama, you can't have it both ways.

listen people his stance against this war was when he was in ill voting present all those times ,,,,under no pressure to vote for the resolution that was 5 years ago and 77 senators for for it .....if it didnt pass bush would have attacked any way.....to put the blame on her vote alone is ludicris .....many who voted for the war have endorsed him ....sounds like a hypocrite to me

Why all overweight folks speaking in the second ad? Just seemed strange to me.