Hillary Fed Up With Obama's dithering and incompetence on Foreign Policy

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Hillary Fed Up With Obama


http://nation.foxnews.com/president-obama/2011/03/17/hillary-fed-obama

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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is fed up with President Obama and his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya, according to an exclusive report in The Daily.

“She’s trying to do what she can to keep things from imploding,” a Clinton insider told the online newspaper. “If you take a look at what’s on her plate as compared with what’s on the plates of previous secretary of states – there’s more going on now at this particular moment, and it’s like playing sports with a bunch of amateurs. And she doesn’t have any power.”

The tension has even spilled over into her dealings with European diplomats. French President Nicolas Sarkozy urged Clinton to press the White House for more aggressive action in Libya. Clinton replied, “There are difficulties,” according to Foreign Policy magazine.

One diplomat described Obama’s foreign policy shop as “amateur night.”

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good i hope she runs for pres 

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OH, HILL NO
Obama's indecision on Libya has pushed Clinton over the edge
http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/03/17/031711-news-hillary-2-2/

By Joshua Hersh Thursday, March 17, 2011


Fed up with a president “who can’t make his mind up” as Libyan rebels are on the brink of defeat, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is looking to the exits.

At the tail end of her mission to bolster the Libyan opposition, which has suffered days of losses to Col. Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, Clinton announced that she’s done with Obama after
2012 — even if he wins again.

“Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”

He went on, “If you take a look at what’s on her plate as compared with what’s on the plates of previous Secretary of States — there’s more going on now at this particular moment, and it’s like playing sports with a bunch of amateurs. And she doesn’t have any power. She’s trying to do what she can to keep things from imploding.”

Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya.

In the past week, former President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton’s former top adviser Anne-
Marie Slaughter lashed out at Obama for the same reason.

The tension has even spilled over into her dealings with European diplomats, with whom she met early this week.

When French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged her to press the White House to
take more aggressive action in Libya, Clinton repeatedly replied only, “There are difficulties,” according to Foreign Policy magazine.

“Frankly we are just completely puzzled,” one of the diplomats told Foreign
Policy magazine. “We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States.”

Or as the insider described Obama’s foreign policy shop: “It’s amateur night.”

Clinton revealed her desire to leave yesterday in an interview with CNN’s
Wolf Blitzer, responding four times to his questions about whether she would
accept a post during a potential second Obama administration with a single word: “No.”



Philippe Reines, an adviser and spokesman for Clinton, downplayed thesignificance of the interview, saying, “He asked, she answered.  Really that simple. [It] wasn’t a declaration.”

But her blunt string of four “no’s” followed a period of intense frustration for the secretary,
according to the insider, who told The Daily that Clinton has grown weary of fighting an uphill battle in the administration.




Defense Secretary Robert Gates came out against a no-fly zone almost two weeks ago, while Clinton grew closer to the Libyan opposition.

Last week, excommunicated members of Libya’s embassy to the United States set up shop in an office inside the State Department.

Obama himself made light of her strong feelings for supporting the opposition in a speech last week at the Gridiron Club Dinner, an annual gathering  that traditionally features a stand-up comedy act by the president.


"I’ve dispatched Hillary to the Middle East to talk about how these countries can transition to new leaders — though, I’ve got to be honest, she’s gotten a little passionate about the subject,” Obama said to laughter from the audience.



“These past few weeks it’s been tough falling asleep with Hillary out there on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, throwing rocks at the window.”




And to some, the firing last week of State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley over disparaging remarks he made about the Pentagon detention policies had the appearance of a power move by the Defense Department more than anything else.




While the stakes in Libya could not be higher, the insider said that something far more domestic was on Clinton’s mind after she leaves the State Department: “She wants to be a grandmother more than anything."



— With Anthony DeCeglie

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Trouble brewing in the Obama State Department ranks
By: MataHarley


http://floppingaces.net/2011/03/17/trouble-brewing-in-the-obama-state-department-ranks




Certainly there has been no love fest between SOS Hillary Clinton and Obama. But now, even civility may be rapidly disappearing as a frustrated and snubbed Sec’y of State declares she has no intention of a second term in the State Department in the event Obama wins a second term. There wasn’t the slightest bit of hesitation in her responses in her interview with Wolf Blitzer yesterday.

The rapid fire responses, combined with an uncharacteristic air of frustration, is unusual for what is normally a cool customer. A mutiny may have begun it’s escalation during the Egytian uprisings, when Obama was publicly demanding Mubarack’s resignation, while both Sec’y Clinton and Obama’s Cairo envoy, Frank Wisner, were emphasizing that Mubarack’s presence was required for a smooth transition.

Seething about coverage that made it look as if the administration were protecting a dictator and ignoring the pleas of the youths of Cairo, the president “made it clear that this was not the message we should be delivering,” said one official who was present. He told Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to take a hard line with his Egyptian counterpart, and he pushed Senator John Kerry to counter the message from Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Wisner when he appeared on a Sunday talk show the next day.

What may also be more than coincidental timing, yesterday’s Blitzer interview comes on the heels of Clinton advisor and confidant, Anne-Marie Slaughter’s tongue lashing of Obama the day before. A few days earlier, former POTUS, Bill Clinton, was echoing his wife’s support for a no-fly zone over Libya.

“They are not asking for ground troops, they don’t want us to get in the fight,” Clinton said of the insurgents at a conference in New York yesterday on the status of women. “Nobody wants to see an arms race in Libya, but it’s not a fair fight.”

Clinton, who is married to U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, said he was “sympathetic” to the Obama administration’s desire not to enforce a no-fly zone alone. Clinton noted that similar efforts had worked in the past, both in Bosnia and Iraq during his own presidency.

The U.S. is spending $110 billion a year to fight wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, Clinton said, and should be able to contribute to enforcing an air blockade over Libya.

“If the leaders are on television pleading for it, I think that we should do it,” Clinton said of the Libyan insurgents. He said the U.S. should say to the Libyan people, “If you want any assistance we will give it to you, and if you want us to stay home we will.”

Kind of amazing that now Democrats are calling for unleashing potential dogs of war. I do wonder how they reconcile this with their adamancy to slash the defense budget.

But the slights and snubs don’t stop there. Per Foreign Policy Magazine, Sec’y Clinton was put in an embarrassing position with French President, Nicolas Sarkozy, who was urging the Sec’y to press Obama more urgently for Libyan intervention. Clinton’s cryptic reply was, “There are difficulties.” This presented a quizzical moment for another French diplomat, who told FP:

“Frankly we are just completely puzzled. We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States.”

Obama, himself, seemed to mock Hillary at the traditional Gridiron Club Dinner speech last week.

“I’ve dispatched Hillary to the Middle East to talk about how these countries can transition to new leaders — though, I’ve got to be honest, she’s gotten a little passionate about the subject,” Obama said to laughter from the audience.

“These past few weeks it’s been tough falling asleep with Hillary out there on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, throwing rocks at the window.”

Hillary ends her interview with CNN’s Blitzer by saying she just wanted to do her best in the remaining two years of her State Department duties. Of course, after what can be construed as a mild, but very public mutiny, Ms. Clinton may find a pink slip in the mail if Obama decides to find a more adoring replacement.

According to the Hillary insider, it may be that Ms. Clinton finally has politics out of her system and just pines simply to be a grandmother. Or perhaps, after mixed messages, public snubs and appearing powerless with other world leaders, politics has become too dirty and unrewarding… even for the Clintons.

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“I’ve dispatched Hillary to the Middle East to talk about how these countries can transition to new leaders — though, I’ve got to be honest, she’s gotten a little passionate about the subject,” Obama said to laughter from the audience.

“These past few weeks it’s been tough falling asleep with Hillary out there on Pennsylvania Avenue shouting, throwing rocks at the window.”


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Do you guys need any more evidence how utterly incompetent, inept, disinterested, detached, deluded, deranged, ignorant, insincere, and over his head this disgusting asshole your idiots voted for is? 

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libya announcing a cease-fire without the USA firing a single bullet?

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Do you just post shit to try to defend dear leader regardless of how hackneyed it is?