Hillary Clinton to Libya skeptics: ‘Whose side are you on?’
Let’s play “What if President Bush said this?”
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is questioning the priorities of lawmakers criticizing the U.S. intervention in Libya.
She’s asking bluntly, “Whose side are you on?”
Setting up a showdown on Libya, House Republicans agreed Wednesday to vote on dueling measures, one to give President Barack Obama limited authority to continue U.S. involvement in the NATO-led operation against Moammar Gadhafi and the other to cut off funds for military hostilities.
Democrats spent the entirety of the Bush years slamming every move he made, and they eventually nominated and elected the most vocal war critic to become president. During all of those years, Democrats referred over and over again to a line President Bush spoke within days of 9-11 — “You’re either with us or against us in the war against terrorism.” Rejecting that line and the man who spoke it as he led a war for our survival, the Democrats slammed and slammed and slammed him. George Lucas even wrote a version of that line into one of his abysmal Star Wars prequels. That’s how much the left made of that one line.
Now, the Secretary of State is asking Congress, which is mostly just trying to remind the administration that it doesn’t have imperial powers to go to war whenever and wherever it feels like and no matter the cost or implications to national security, “Whose side are you on?” Way to bring people together, top diplomat! You know, they told me that if I voted for John McCain, we would have a heavy handed government stifling reasonable dissent — and they were right!
This obviously isn’t an idle statement, either, but part of the Obama administration’s pushback as Libya spirals into a mess: spokesman Jay Carney told skeptics to watch what they say about Libya last week.
This bunch would have positively melted down if they had been on the receiving end of the abuse they hurled at President Bush.
More: Thanks to commenter Black Sabbath –
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
- Senator Barack Hussein Obama. December 20, 2007.“We are currently doing everything we can to bomb, strafe and use missiles to carry the rebels into power in Libya. We want them to win. We just don’t know who they are.” Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake,” Obama said to a crowd at the Springfield, Illinois town square on Feb. 10, 2007.
“Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken and the young lives that could have been. America it is time to start bringing our troops home. It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war. That’s why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.” Barack Hussein Obama.
Whose side was he on?
“The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation.”
- Senator Barack Hussein Obama. December 20, 2007.
“We are currently doing everything we can to bomb, strafe and use missiles to carry the rebels into power in Libya. We want them to win. We just don’t know who they are.” Hillary Rodham Clinton.
“Most of you know that I opposed this war from the start. I thought it was a tragic mistake,” Obama said to a crowd at the Springfield, Illinois town square on Feb. 10, 2007.
“Today we grieve for the families who have lost loved ones, the hearts that have been broken and the young lives that could have been. America it is time to start bringing our troops home. It’s time to admit that no amount of American lives can resolve the political disagreement that lies at the heart of someone else’s civil war. That’s why I have a plan that will bring our combat troops home by March of 2008.” Barack Hussein Obama.
were Hilly ‘n Billy on at the Huma Abedin-Anthony Weiner-wedding?
Hey Kankles, maybe the same side you were on when you wanted to bolt from Iraq.
This isn’t the only thing Hillary has gotten away with in the last few days. While the media is bashing Palin for canceling her trip to Sudan, Clinton is doing the same and not a peep. http://bit.ly/lAYMz6
The double standard for Hillary and dems is ridiculous.
But…I thought dissent was patriotic?
Right, Hillary?
I would answer her, America’s side; but I know that would just confuse her.
I would answer with America’s side, but that would just confuse her.
“We have to win this War in Libya for the rebels so we can find out who they are.”
Didn’t Nancy Pelosi say something like this about the Obamacare law. How’s that working out?
I cannot imagine the outrage were a Republican to ask a Democrat “whose side are you one.”
New Rules: Only Democrats can question the national loyalty of others.
Hillary’s question now is answered. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/270293/al-qaeda-and-libyan-rebellion-john-rosenthal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJxmpTMGhU0
I thought she said we should be able to disagree with any administration?
Hillary, the answer is easy: “Our side.”
The rebels want us dead just as surely as Kookadaffy does. What happened to avoiding other peoples’ civil wars?
The really significant thing about all this is that the president and the secretary of state KNOW that those who support them will either be unable for, shall we say, lack of insight, to discern between the democratic position prior to this presidency, or that they will be blatantly and willfully oblivious to that difference. They assume that their supporters are either stupid, hypocritical, or both, and that they are totally OK with all this.
“as he led a war for our survival.”
Our survival? Really? Is this shrill hyperbole necessary to point out the hypocrisy on the left?
Agreed, using the word “survival” is way over the top. Otherwise, this is just item # 1,327,056 in the recent annals of Democrat hypocrisy.
“She’s asking bluntly, “Whose side are you on?””
It is one of the Left’s favorite songs:
“Which Side Are You On?”
A Song by Florence Patton Reece
Come all of you good workers
Good news to you I’ll tell
Of how that good old union
Has come in here to dwell
Chorus
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
Which side are you on?
My daddy was a miner
And I’m a miner’s son
And I’ll stick with the union
Till every battle’s won
They say in Harlan County
There are no neutrals there
You’ll either be a union man
Or a thug for J.H. Blair
Oh, workers can you stand it?
Oh, tell me how you can
Will you be a lousy scab
Or will you be a man?
Don’t scab for the bosses
Don’t listen to their lies
Us poor folks haven’t got a chance
Unless we organize
“Whose side are you on?”
The side of Liberty & Freedom, which makes me the mortal enemy of Hill & Barry!
Did she just questioned my Patriotism?
We’re on the side of General Betrayus.
I don’t think either you or Slick Willy served their country in the miliary. In fact if I recall correctly Slick managed to completely avoid that possibility. So you ask what side the Republican Party is on. I think the answer is definitely on the side of the United States of America. I think there is more reason to question which side you are on. If I take you and Slick’s actions instead of your words into consideration the answer seems to be pretty damned clear.
It must be tough to be a right-winger right now – it’s so easy to bash Obama for blatantly violating both the Constitution and then also the War Powers Act, but to do that you’d have to be against a war and in favor of requiring the President to obey the Constitution! What to do, what to do?
Seriously, Obama should be impeached for it, but neither the Republicans nor the few actual liberals in Congress have the guts to do it, and the Senate wouldn’t convict him anyway. At least when George Bush wanted to have a war, he had the decency to lie to Congress to get their support first.