The woman has no political instincts.
Clinton slams GOP rival's Cuba remark
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Taking a swipe at a potential GOP presidential rival, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Fred Thompson for suggesting illegal Cuban immigrants pose a terrorist threat
"I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."
Of course you're appalled, Hillary. But is this below the discussion you want happening while a car bomb is burning up over and over on TV news and the New York Times and wiki provide the following gems? I think not. Pssst - Most Cuban Americans tend to be very big on national defense for America, not Cuba.
An unusual combination of New York political and law enforcement leaders have condemned former President Bill Clinton's pardon of Susan L. Rosenberg, a one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group who was charged in the notorious 1981 Brink's robbery in Rockland County that left a guard and two police officers dead.
Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican, and United States Senator Charles E. Schumer, a Democrat, were among those who criticized the pardon, as did Bernard B. Kerik, New York City's police commissioner, and David Trois, a Rockland County police union official.
On August 11, 1999, Clinton commuted the sentences of 16 members of FALN, a violent Puerto Rican nationalist group that set off 120 bombs in the United States mostly in New York City and Chicago, convicted for conspiracies to commit robbery, bomb-making, and sedition, as well as for firearms and explosives violations
The Cubans in Miami are well aware that there's a significant Cuban spy presence. Are those spies limited to intel gathering? That I don't know.
Posted by: Purple Avenger | Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 11:15 PM
I don't get it, how did she shoot herself in the foot. If anything it is the Republicans who shot themselves in the foot when they lost millions of Spanish-American voters.
Posted by: Rick | Saturday, June 30, 2007 at 11:59 PM
Illegal Cubans are NOT "Cuban-Americans". It's like being pregnant - you either are an American or you are an illegal.
Posted by: katablog | Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 12:14 AM
Illegal aliens are just fine with Hillary, whether they are from Mexico, Cuba, or the Bahamas. For a lawyer, she evidently doesn't believe in enforcing laws. And her husband probably got payback from the Weather bi-yotch he pardoned. And she benefited from the Puerto-Rican pardons.
Pardoning terrorists is a political thing for the Clinton Inc. crowd, not a national security matter. And I hope Fred finds a way to make that point as well as he did putting down the morbidly-obese toad with the cigar video. If he can pound a stake in that hard and brittle heart, he's got my vote!
Posted by: daveinboca | Sunday, July 01, 2007 at 01:17 AM
"Only a fool would believe Bush does not use the War on Terrorism for political gains."
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You mean to tell us that there are politicians who do _NOT_ seek political gains from the policies they promote?
Posted by: seekeronos | Monday, July 02, 2007 at 01:02 PM