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‘Fool’s Errand’: Tough-Talking Hillary Clinton Says Chinese System Is Doomed

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says in an interview that China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is on the wrong side of governments that resist democracy.

The comments were published on the web site of The Atlantic magazine Tuesday, as top U.S. and Chinese officials, including Clinton, held high-level talks in Washington.

Clinton was asked if China’s government is scared by the protests against authoritarian regimes that have rocked the Middle East and North Africa.

She says: “They’re worried, and they are trying to stop history, which is a fool’s errand. They cannot do it. But they’re going to hold it off as long as possible.”

Since February, China has questioned or detained hundreds of activists.

Editor’s note: Read the complete story here.

Comments (177)

  • Bennie Franklin
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:07pm

    Clinton can give a rats ass about human rights. She only cares about power

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  • awiderview
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

    Is there anybody here who can express anything other than a narrow view? What is it like to be fearful all the time? Just asking.

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    • Nick Pable with Buckshot
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:59pm

      There are, but their comments usually get removed. Just sit back and enjoy the show. I particularly like Caprica’s wide ranging analysis, KickaGrandma‘s caring attitude and Saviourammo’s fantasies.

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    • nptden
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 5:10am

      BROAD VIEW: Progressives in this country have been infiltrated by Communists who love the techniques they use to attain power. A la Saul Alinsky, Frances Fox Piven. It has worked. However they have morphed into the NWO crowd to become the elite when the USA Republic is ‘transformed’ into their ‘socialist’ democracy. They all are bent on weakening and destroying our Republic. They used ‘Race’ as the buzzword to get their man in as the POTUS. They are using, ‘DEMOCRACY’ as the keyword for world chaos and instability.in the Middle East. Hillary is just positioning in the wings if Obama’s policies become recognized for what they really are; to destroy not transform this country.
      Barry and Hillary have both been groomed. by Communists.

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  • cntrlfrk
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:05pm

    What? We sent them all of our manufacturing jobs and they still aren’t free????

    Thanks, Clintons!

    .

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  • fatsomann
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:02pm

    What does “trying to stop history” mean? The end of the world? Another example of something that sounds like it means something that it doesn’t.

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:10pm

      I think she is refering to the collapse of the USSR. I‘m afraid we’re closer to that than they are though.

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    • nptden
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:52am

      If you read Marx & Engels you will understand both Barry and Hillary‘s understanding of the word ’history’. Think of how frequently the Progressives use the word ‘historic’, ‘iconic’, ‘transform’ when they describe any political move they make. It is all right out of Marxism.

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  • Gonzo
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:02pm

    Way to talk tough Hillary! We know who wears the pantsuits in this administration!

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:14pm

      @gonzo, what are you implying????? o yeah, i know, now that is funny.

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    • nptden
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 4:41am

      Hillary and Piven were lovers back in the Hippie days. Check it out. Why do you think she did her thesis on ‘Saul Alinsky’ US number one Commie?..

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  • Vickie Dhaene
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:57pm

    I have lost all my confidence in the US Government. I don’t believe any of the lies that come from these people.

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    • commonsenseguy
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:03pm

      @vickie dhaene, did you just lose confidence or has it been gone for a while ????

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  • NOBALONEY
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:51pm

    Secretary of State Clinton hasn’t got a clue about Communist China, Hong Kong’s Cardinal Zen Ze-Kuin has recently said about China, “ it will use any means to control its people”. State Capitalist China has erected a statue of Confucious in Tiananmen Square, because its useful to their ultimate goal, Control. Cardinal Zen was talking with Ramond Arroyo on EWTN the last week of april about the uderground church, and how the Vatican has always given into the demands of the Chinese government. Cardinal Zen’s opinions went beyond church matters in the interview.

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  • jeff.cooper
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:51pm

    Yesterday, she was lauding the relationship the U.S. has with China. I swear these fools use a Magic 8 Ball for decision making.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:48pm

    poor bill, now i understand why he likes younger women, she has lost her communist mind.the more she talks the more she looks like Mr,eds rear end with his tail up

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    • siebegorman
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:42pm

      After being married to her, I’d understand if Bill was gay.

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  • commonsenseguy
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:40pm

    are you for real, she really believes in a democracy, no way, i can just see all those Chinese laughing in their wonton soup, or better yet, spitting it up laughing so hard, she said that history is on the wrong side of democracy, well hey boys and girls, guess hat , she is right ,but her and george soros and the puppet o9bama or steadily turning our free republic into a democracy, so will she think that later,

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  • Obama_Sham
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:39pm

    “She says: “They’re worried, and they are trying to stop history, which is a fool’s errand. They cannot do it. But they’re going to hold it off as long as possible.””

    Is she talking about China’s government or is she talking about the U.S. financial system?!?

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  • EQUALIZER
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:34pm

    Straight from the horses arse!

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  • EQUALIZER
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:31pm

    Osama was hiding in Hilary’s pantsuit the whole time

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  • thegreatcarnac
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:28pm

    Chilna is extremely unimpressed with Hillary. They own her and Bill.

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Uhhhh…so just how many trillions of dollars have the Chinese loaned us? Just saying that it seems just a little silly to be talking about how their system is going to collapse while at the same time we are borrowing money by the ship load in order to become more like them.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:25pm

    Feign to the Right, pass to the Left.

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  • shirtsbyeric
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:24pm

    Didn’t her husband sign trade agreements that let China export their goods to us as well as sell the port of Long Beach to a State owned Chinese firm, Cosco? And didn’t she sit on the board of directors of Wal Mart for ten years? A well paid errand runner for the fools?

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  • eat-more-bacon-USA
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:23pm

    Never has such a loud mouth said so little. Will Hillary be moving to Chicago in 2013 to be near the obamas?

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  • geonj
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:22pm

    ” Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says in an interview that China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is on the wrong side of governments that resist democracy.”
    how is that working out for you in egypt, hillary?

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  • RightPolitically
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:17pm

    Nice to know that Secr. of State Clinton is on the side a freedom. Well, I have news for Madam HIllary: SOCIALISM IS NOT FREEDOM!

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:12pm

      Agreed… listening to her and the other progressive/marxists … you would think an election was coming up where they need to “fool” the people into believing they are on “our side” ….

      TEA!

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    • J.C. McGlynn
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:24pm

      Depends on your point of view:
      Ruling Class – free
      Common People – slaves

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  • Ebbertron
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:16pm

    I thought China was the epitome of what we want to be……?

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  • ZAP
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:15pm

    China must be beside themselfs

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:13pm

      China does what China wants…..Hillary’s words ring hollow especially when you have a tin cup in hand asking for more money. What a joke…we are beggars looking for more handouts from the Chinese money tree. China basically runs our economy on their credit card. What I admire the most about the Chinese is that they don’t pound their chest and force their beliefs on other nations. The Chinese quietly take care of business and eat our lunch without a burp.

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  • smithclar3nc3
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:14pm

    Wow a progressive democrat who is trying to Rewrite history of the KKK democratic party and the racist eugenic ideology of the progressive has no room to critique anyone…..LOL

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    • drattastic
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:24pm

      Exactly ,
      What is progressive-ism progressing to ……communism

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    • GeorgieJo
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:22pm

      Sillary loves Francis Fox Piven
      Wonder if she gets advice from her?
      I mute Sillary She is embarrassing

      Confessa Brewer on LSDNBC just interviewed The Daily Beast dude He said yes Bin Laden had been reading Noam Chompskee AND Jimmy Carter

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  • sWampy
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Sure their system is doomed eventually, the only Communism lasts is through expansion, or taking wealth from others. The world has been exporting it’s wealth to China for years in exchange for cheap labor, at some point that has got to stop. A lot of people will suffer before it all comes crashing down though.

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    • OLDBIKEFIXER
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:36pm

      Hmmm… maybe not. I don’t believe China is afrraid of anything that their citizens might do. Remember what happened a few years ago in Tienanmen Square? They send the troops out at the first sign of anything that could be construed as a rebellion.

      However, China is slowly seeing that Capitalism ain’t quite as bad as they though it was going to be. They are the world’s leading manufacturer and exporter of just about everything, and little by liitle they’re coming around to the Capitalist way of thinking. Once they realize that becoming a truly Capitalist society will strengthen their power in the rest of the world, they could possibly become what America used to be. If the left has their way, America will become like China was back in the 1950′s.

      Go figure…

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    • sWampy
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:37pm

      They are more of a fascists society, all the “Businesses” are owned by the government, with no freedoms except for the few ruling class, without constant expansion or influx of resources from others societies like this always fail eventually. The US with it’s idiotic non free trade, where we send China our precious raw materials, have them use slave labor to turn it into crappy made finished goods that don’t last long enough to take home, has been pumping up their society, while pulling down our poor and middle class, and making a few liberal fat cats insanely rich. Eventually our poor and middle class will have no more wealth to export to them, we will look like a 3rd world nation, and China will have to find some other suckers to keep their slaves feed.

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  • Sam Brown
    Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:13pm

    Hillary knows that she is dealing with people just as corrupt as she is.

    Sam

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    • ISeeDanger.com
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:21pm

      When it hits China, look out. The market will crash for sure. Just imagine what will happen to Apple’s stock price. The only thing more impacting to us will be when Saudi Arabia gets hot.

      http://www.ISeeDanger.com

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    • IMPEACHBHO
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:30pm

      Note she said democracy..you know, like the one breaking out in the middle east. Democracy is a cover for their agenda, it is not in any way related to the Republic here in the U.S.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:31pm

      Hi Kettle meet Pot, he goes by the name Black.

      Hippocrats at their best. And I guess if Hillary is saying your system is broke, it must be broke.

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    • lovenfl3
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:33pm

      Remember how great the world was going to be under Obama? Everybody was going to love us and things were going to change. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeRl7wQ5SnQ Obama has been full of mixed messages.

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    • yougottabekidding
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:38pm

      Which Democracy is that?
      The one that is now killing Christinans and burning Churches, you know the one of peace.
      Or is it the one that has people that work and care pay for those that do nothing and don’t care, you know the ones that are owed.
      Or the ones that have union pensions that are more then the people that pay for them ever make?
      Which one??

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    • Thevoice
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:42pm

      IMPEACHBHO …You got it right….

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    • ozchambers
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:50pm

      She gearing up for a presidential run? Dont be fooled.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:53pm

      Hillery once again proves PIG POO can talk!

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    • mill
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:56pm

      Does she realize CHINA OWNS US???????????
      We‘re the ones doomed with our crackpot unions and elected officials that are afraid to fart unless Obama says it’s okay.

      With her arrogance, Obama will have her as his running mate…then they can Alinsky us into oblivion.

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Damn you nailed that point home YGBK

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    • CatB
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:58pm

      Wasn’t it her husband “giving” technology to China that helped them?

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    • smithclar3nc3
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:02pm

      30 Million chinese people died to get Mao‘s communist vision started he said he would have gladly sacraficed 300 million I don’t think China Government is worried about any type of revolutions because they still have 270 million deaths they didn’t get in the beginning.

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    • Sinista MACE
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:07pm

      Hillary Clinton has actually taken time out of fomenting unrest in the Middle East through the Muslim Brotherhood to speak about China’s Human Rights abuses?

      THESE ARE THE SAME GLOBALIST DIRT WHO WANTS TO MIMICK THE CHINESE PEASANTRY SYSTEM. HILLARY CLINTON AND HER PROGRESSIVE VAMPIRES!

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    • Church_Lady
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:20pm

      These are communists and Buddhists. We must not take them seriously and there is no more reason to honor their “national debt” bond holdings than there is to honor our “social security” bond holdings. Screw them! (except for any christian non-communist converts) Its all just paper in a file cabinet!

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    • Enuff Zenuff
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:32pm

      .
      As correctly noted on Beck’s show last night, California and Massachucetts are even more communist than China.

      While Hillary is correct that regimes which repress their own people will not stand the test of time, she is incorrect to promote a “Democracy” form of government to protect the peoples’ interests. It is the same mistake California, Massachucetts and other deeply-indebted progressive-blue states in the US have made – assuming that the will of the majority should overrule the individual rights protected by our constitution.

      The only form of government that protects individual rights and freedom is a Republic that follows the Rule of Law – NOT a Democracy that ignores laws at the whim of the electorate. The word ‘democracy’ does not even appear in our Constitution, Bill of Rights, Declaration of Independence, nor any of the 50 states’ constitutions!

      America has mostly abandoned the Rule of Law under Democrat regimes which have trampled our private property rights and our Constitution simply because they had a temporary majority that opted to do so… and they did so for the sole purpose of ensuring their own re-elections – destroying the American system in the process.

      HIllary accusing China of being on a “Fool’s Errand” is her subconscious projection of her own destructive life’s mission onto others. Hearing Hillary promote “Democracy” for China reveals yet again just how ignorant progressives are when it comes to what made America g

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:52pm

      I just want to throw up in my mouth!!!! What a hypocrit!

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    • TheLascone
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 1:53pm

      Hillary Honey … I guess you just don’t understand the Chinese …
      http://www.flickr.com/photos/23630227@N06/4175315338/in/photostream/

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    • jblovesAmerica
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:00pm

      funny how BHO and his merry group are pulling the same -except for the killing of dissidents.
      that will come next??
      not one liberal in the inner circle has a clue.
      coal/natural gas/Oil more than anywhere on the planet-and they are asking Brazil to bail the USA out.
      how stupid they are

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    • Professional Infidel
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:04pm

      Ugly is forever, Dumb is inherited, evil is her choice!!

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    • TexasCommonSense
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:11pm

      Let me see if I have this right. She wants China, a Communist country, to become more democratic, and she wants the USA, a Republic, to become more Communist?

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    • Water Bart
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:15pm

      Bring it on! China! Ha Ha !

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    • 101
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:22pm

      What a tool

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    • booger71
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:31pm

      But they are a damned more Capitalistic than we are

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    • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:33pm

      This is one of the few times I have to agree with Hillary in principle; there are cultural and economic stress fractures building in China itself; missionary friends of mine, once out of coutnry have told of them in detail to those who will listen, and it would only take a series of small events to unleash a civil war and unrest across the majority of the nation.

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    • pajamash
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:36pm

      “Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says in an interview that China’s human rights record is “deplorable” and that history is on the wrong side of governments that resist democracy.”
      ______________________________________________________________________________

      Truth be told Hillary all governments have a finite time when it comes to history.

      Think about it…very few governements last more than a few hundred years at best.

      We have a great form of government here in the United States but there are too many that are willing to give it up and allow The Federal Government to have more and more control over our lives. The more power the Fed gets the further away our form of governement is from the form it had in the first few years after 1776. Very sad!

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    • Clive
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:42pm

      you guys are all so sad and angry. buck up.

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    • Clive
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:51pm

      lovenfl3
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 12:33pm
      Remember how great the world was going to be under Obama? Everybody was going to love us and things were going to change.
      ——–
      uh, have you seen world opinion polls since bush left? we are in a much better place now. like beck says “do your research ******”, http://pewglobal.org/database/?indicator=1

      and get ready for his re election.

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    • Showtime
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 2:59pm

      I can’t believe anything she says after her statement, “The government of Egypt is stable.” She, as SoS, HAD to know differently.

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    • independentvoteril
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:01pm

      Now IF ONLY Hilary knew what DEMOCRACY was.. she thinks that is what they have in EGYPT where they are KILLING CHRISTIANS.. She’s as deluded as OBAMA and CHINA..

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    • gofigureinternational
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:20pm

      Wonder how selling those 600 Super-computers that Hillary’s “Faithful” husband allowed, overriding the Pentagon’s advice, is mixed in with her comments? How about the spy who infiltrated Los Alamos and stole a great deal of top secret info on their watch? Of course the largest Democratic donation to date at the time came with ties to China, but that was simply coincidence. China is financing our destruction due to overspending; meanwhile they have increased the size, scope and expertise of their military. For which enemy does anyone think they are gearing up for? Does Tibet, Taiwan, or South Korea seem very likely? Not hardly. China sets their National goals in terms of decades, not election cycles. We have been weakened by actions of multiple administrations and by the time the nation awakens, it may very well too late!

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    • BetterDays
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:20pm

      MR. Hillary Clinton is a mouth piece for the Globalist’s who use the Chaos of Democrocy to enslave the peoples and enrich themselves at the peoples expense. They are waiting until they know our every move before acting upon us, but when it comes it will be brutal like nothing before it. They can let a free people survive, it would be their undoing. I pray that I’m wrong, but decades of research, tracking, reading, and putting the pieces together all point to a very dred time for us to soon come. we‘ve been in their clutch’s since Bush 1 announced the New World Order in his first state of the Union address twenty odd years ago. It’s all just a matter of timing now. Get right with GOD, times about up for doing so , once your declared righteous or wicked that’s the end result of you once the sealing is done. My prayers out to everyone, yes you to trolls, because many will be in Heaven with me that were not my idea to have them be, but I’ll be glad to see them nevertheless.
      “Press on to the prize of the highest calling of GOD through the grace of Christ Jesus.”

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    • V-Forge
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 3:30pm

      I wonder what Mrs. Clinton thinks china will do with about 2 billion people to keep them busy after they collapse. I’m sure they can find something to keep them busy… and fed..

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    • restorehope
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:24pm

      And thus speaks Hillary, with her many, many years of diplomatic experience. Um, no. She was just as fit to be Sec of State as Obama was for the presidency. Their lack of experience is ultimately hurting our country and will do so for years after they leave DC. We are so waiting for 2012.

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    • Zorro6821
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 4:44pm

      Hillary calling the kettle black. Oh I guess our system is so squeaky clean. No corrupt politicians, No human rights violations. Such nonsense for mass consumption. Saint Hillary oh please stop the charade already and cleanup your act at home before trashing other nations, maybe that is why America is disliked by so many nations. We talk the talk but don’t walk the walk.

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    • Marengo Ohio Patriot
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 5:25pm

      hahahahahahahahaha
      China has been in existence how long?
      The United States has been in existence how long?
      And this woman holds how much power? Was really a contender for president????
      hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
      STUPID AMERICAN!!!!!

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    • Code_Orange
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 7:24pm

      Mr. Showtimes, what lies are you talking about? Was this said today? Just curious because it would be outrageously useful if we had her say that AFTER the recent uprisings! Good Catch!

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    • tarbush
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 8:03pm

      We will be switching places with them. China heading toward capitalism while we become marxist. What would the Gipper say?!!

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    • ChiefGeorge
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 9:05pm

      When it hits China it will be World War 3 because they know who exactly is behind the mischief! USA/NWO/CFR/EU!

      They are not going to sit back and take it. They are going to react. Why do you think they came to Washington recently? They came here to warn us! Back off or else!

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    • MiketheTrucker
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 10:07pm

      Heed your own words Ms. Progressive!

      We THE PEOPLE have had enough of your meddling. There will be another Tea-nami in 2012.

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    • LIVINGTHEDREAM
      Posted on May 10, 2011 at 11:28pm

      China is in trouble, let’s all light cigars with Hillary. Didn’t she write “It takes a village to keep an eye on my husband!”

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    • avenger
      Posted on May 11, 2011 at 6:15am

      hil should have her own comedy show….

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