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Monday, April 28, 2008

America's high obliteracy rate

The U.S. media didn't pay a lot of attention to Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran last week, but other people did:

"Hillary Strangelove":

This foolish and dangerous threat was muted in domestic media coverage. But it reverberated in headlines around the world.

Responding with understatement to a question in the British House of Lords, the foreign minister responsible for Asia, Lord Mark Malloch-Brown, said of Clinton's implication of a mushroom cloud over Iran: "While it is reasonable to warn Iran of the consequences of it continuing to develop nuclear weapons and what those real consequences bring to its security, it is probably not prudent in today's world to threaten to obliterate any other country and in many cases civilians resident in such a country."

Conclusion?

A presidential candidate who lightly commits to obliterating Iran - and, presumably, all the children, parents, and grandparents in Iran - should not be answering the White House phone at any time of day or night.

Maybe this would have been a bigger story if the Clinton family pastor had said it.

Posted by Will Bunch @ 10:47 AM Permalink | 25 comments

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Posted 11:01 AM, 04/28/2008

ocjones

"Maybe this would have been a bigger story if the Clinton family pastor had said it." Or maybe if John McCain had said it?

Posted 11:04 AM, 04/28/2008

Will: Who were the Hillary Strangelove quotes from?

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Posted 11:15 AM, 04/28/2008

Talking point sleuth

CB. Text that appears bold and underlined in the posts is called "hypertext." If you click on it with your mouse, you will jump to a linked article. That's what to do when you want to know where a quote comes from. Just curious, are you a Bush supporter?

Posted 11:18 AM, 04/28/2008

Talking point sleuth

Good point, Xi Jah. Clinton's obliteration remark disqualifies her from being fit to be president. If she really wanted to show her qualifications for the position, she would have sang "Bomb, bomb Iran," when asked about her foreign policy.

Posted 11:22 AM, 04/28/2008

She could also admit to knwoing nothing about the economy. I love how Repubs nom,inate someone before hearing their economic platform. Hey' at least we can look forward to a gas tax holiday! Its not like the gov't needs the revenues.

Posted 11:31 AM, 04/28/2008

Talking point sleuth

Typical liberal, RG. Ignoring the plight of poor people. He doesn't seem to understand that helping people save 18 cents per gallon for a couple of months will completely alleviate their concerns with the housing slump, higher inflation, high foreclosure rates, increased unemployment, tanking of the dollar, huge deficit, etc. It's obvious that the economic policies of McCain are so different from those of Bush that they will change our economy completely. Huh? What's that? McCain's economic policies are the same as Bush's economic policies?.....Nevermind.

Posted 11:37 AM, 04/28/2008

At least McCain's stance on Bush's tax cuts and economic policy hasn't changed. After 2004, we know how much conservatives hate a flip flopping Vietnam Vet. As for me, I'm a socialist, rather see our tax dollars spent on education, infrastructure, healthcare, etc. instead of entitlement programs like these: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24346992/

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Posted 11:49 AM, 04/28/2008

SteveMG

I marvel at the way the fright wingers gloat about the prospect of Democrats' blowing another winnable election. Isn't that an acknowledgement that their own guys are doing such a bad job? All it tells you is where their priorities are: Party first, nation second.

Posted 11:53 AM, 04/28/2008

legatus

"Text that appears bold and underlined in the posts is called "hypertext." If you click on it with your mouse, you will jump to a linked article. That's what to do when you want to know where a quote comes from. Just curious, are you a Bush supporter? Posted by Talking point sleuth" CB didn't ask ~where~ the quotes came from (The Boston Globe), he asked ~who~ the quotes came from. Unless I missed it, clicking the hyperlink takes you to the editorial, which has no named writer associated. If you're going to be snotty, at least be snotty about the question asked, and not a strawman of your own.

Posted 12:05 PM, 04/28/2008

Talking point sleuth

Unless I missed it, clicking the hyperlink takes you to the editorial, which has no named writer associated. Sorry, legatus, my bad. I thought that it was pretty obvious that editorials are written by the paper's editorial staff - and there's no reason to assume that Will would have any more specific information than that. Then again, I thought it was obvious that Bush is an idiot.

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Posted 12:19 PM, 04/28/2008

E.Plebnista

Do we *really* need to "explain" how newspaper editorials are written? Coming from strident critics of the "MSM" you'd think they would know little things like that... But then perhaps this is just another part of the "Bush Derangement Syndrome" the 28 percenters are afflicted with.

Posted 12:21 PM, 04/28/2008

Talking point sleuth

Is it possible that b.at(ch) didn't even catch the irony? Or possibly we've tapped into the "conservative" authority syndrome? Not being able to think for themselves, they think it makes sense to ask Will who wrote a Globe editorial? Huh?

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