Hillary's Hubris: Criticizing the "White House"

Hillary Clinton calls for U.N. sanctions against Iran

By GEOFF MULVIHILL
The Associated Press
1/18/2006, 9:58 p.m. ET

PRINCETON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton called for United Nations sanctions against Iran as it resumes its nuclear program and faulted the Bush administration for "downplaying" the threat.

In an address Wednesday evening at Princeton University, Clinton, D-N.Y., said it was a mistake for the United States to have Britain, France and Germany head up nuclear talks with Iran over the past 2 1/2 years. Last week, Iran resumed nuclear research in a move Tehran claims is for energy, not weapons.

"I believe that we lost critical time in dealing with Iran because the White House chose to downplay the threats and chose to outsource the negotiations," Clinton said.

While Clinton was critical of the administration, she never mentioned the president by name and did not engage in the same sort of sharp rhetorical attack against him or other Republicans as she did earlier this week.

Speaking Monday at a Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. memorial event in Harlem, Clinton said that the House of Representatives "has been run like a plantation" and called the Bush administration "one of the worst that has ever governed our country." The senator's remarks spurred heated reaction from Republicans.

Clinton addressed several hotspots in the Middle East in her wide-ranging speech to some 800 Princeton students, staff and alumni gathered to inaugurate a new professorship, the S. Daniel Abraham Visiting Professor in Middle East Policy Studies, at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

Hillary still trying to walk the fine line between being the Extremist Liberal she truly is and the moderate Democrat she wishes to portray to the public in her bid to be..I can hardly write it without getting violently ill...President. In this case she is careful not to name the President specifically, but hides her criticism behind the broad generality "the White House." Such hubris. Had the Bush administration done exactly what she is now calling for, she would be criticizing them for not allowing the Europeans, with their closer ties to Iran, to take the lead in talks. Democrats are fond of offering Catch-22 choices to their Republican opponents. No matter what course the President chose, Hillary would criticize him.

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