Mrs. Clinton lays claim to two traits nearly every day: strength and experience..Where's the Beef?

by: Granitdamit

Wed Dec 26, 2007 at 18:40:28 PM EST

As a Junior Senator from N.Y she has not shown the type of strengths or conviction that are true to the Democrat party.
In my opinion she has complied with and supported GW Bush in the Iraq war and voted  to intensify America's continuing confrontation with Iran.  Very hawkish indeed, in my opinion.

Today I looked up information on the internet, to add to what I have listened to in the debates and found written or quoted in books, and the strengths or experience she claims to have just don't add up.

Strength
Something I found today.

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.
From the Mark Healey piece 12-26-07  
The Long Run

Experience

First, according to Susan Rice, a National Security Council senior aide and State Department official under Mr. Clinton Mrs. Clinton was not involved in "the heavy lifting of foreign policy." Ms. Rice also took issue with a recent comment by a Clinton campaign official that Mrs. Clinton was "the face of the administration in foreign affairs."

"Making tough decisions, responding to crises, making the bureaucracy implement decisions that they may not want to implement - that's the hard part of foreign policy," Ms. Rice said. "That's not what Mrs. Clinton was asked or expected to do as first lady."
From the Mark Healey piece 12-26-07  
The Long Run

 Mrs. Clinton has declined to divulge any private advice she gave her husband.

With all the back fires Hillary has had during her primary campaign,the Norman Hsu fund raising problem, the pre arranged questions in Iowa by her staff members, the idiotic leaks and attack's on other democratic candidates, all her C+ debate performances,  and  that she gave the wrong date to caucus in Iowa to supporters, I have come to following conclustion ....
Mrs. Clinton got where she is today  because she married Bill Clinton.
He opened the doors; she walked through them.

So where's the Beef?