Mrs. Clinton, You are No Lady Thatcher II

(H/T photo: Kitty LItter ) 

From the Way Back Machine archives, Terry McAuliffe, stooge for Mrs. Clinton:

Their policies are totally different but they are both perceived as very tough,” said Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman. “She is strong on foreign policy. People have got to know you are going to keep them safe

From Mike Glover, Associated Press 

DAVENPORT, Iowa – Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday that President Bush should withdraw all U.S. troops from  before he leaves office, asserting it would be “the height of irresponsibility” to pass the war along to the next commander in chief. [emphasis removed]

From Don Riehl, Riehl World View, “I Resemble That Remark:”

How can someone think they deserve to be President if they’re going to resent inheriting a tough job? If a 9/11 were to happen on her watch, I can just hear the less than Presidential address now – “Frankly, Osama, I really resent this attack. I wanted to work on healthcare!”

From A.J. Strata, Strata-Sphere, Mrs. Clinton, “blundered badly:”

This looks and smells of cowardice. A woman has enough trouble convincing voters she has the backbone to face our problems without going spineless and demanding George Bush make life easier for her before she will step up. Condi Rice would not have made such a blunder. She knows the stakes involved, the choice of winning in Iraq now or having to do it later as part of a World War eminating from the Middle East (if we lose Iraq). And Clinton’s hands are as dirty in this as anyone’s since she voted for the Iraq war. Her claim that 20-20 hindsight would have changed her views is stupid. Who wouldn’t think differently with hindsight?

Would Lady Thatcher complain about inheriting a tough situation?  Did she ever?   I dare say Lady Thatcher was never impugned to be a coward.

More: Jules Crittenden.

Update:  James S. Robbins, NRO, The Corner, on “Hillary’s Demands:”   

Another way to read Hillary Clinton’s demand that the US be out of Iraq by 2009 is that were she President she would not be able to handle it. So she’d rather it just go away.