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Giuliani Taken Aback By Clinton Diplomacy Plan
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ABC News' Jan Simmonds Reports: Rudy Giuliani today asked Hillary Clinton to take back comments she made to the Des Moines Register's Tom Beaumont, printed in Sunday's edition, about a diplomacy plan she would put into action the day after she's elected.
"The day after I'm elected, I'm going to be asking distinguished Americans of both political parties to travel around the world on my behalf with a very simple message to the governments and the people alike: The era of cowboy diplomacy is over," Clinton told Beaumont.
After reading the quote from the Register in front of a campaign audience, the former New York mayor offered his own thoughts of Clinton’s plan.
"Well Hillary is not a president-elect… the last time I checked. We are gonna have something to say about that," said Giuliani. "Hillary is not even the nominee of the party. I mean this is very very premature, talking about sending ambassadors all over the world even before she becomes president to in essence interfere with the policies of the United States."
The national Republican frontrunner went on to say that he thinks Senator Clinton "should correct those statements." Giuliani said he agreed with scholars quoted in Beaumont’s article who said Clinton’s plan could undermine the legitimacy of a military strike Bush may see necessary in the closing months of his presidency or prompt ongoing negotiations, often unseen to the new president, to stall while foreign parties wait for the new administration to take office.
But Giuliani was kinder than he has been in the past when disagreeing with Clinton.
"I am not criticizing her," he added. "I am not charging her with anything. I am giving her an opportunity to say that she made a mistake and correct it."
Giuliani even made light of his own public mistakes saying, "sometimes I say things in a way that I would like to correct them later. I feel that this is the way we should kind of conduct a campaign. Not just jump on top of something but let’s give her a chance now to explain what she meant by that and withdraw it."
October 28, 2007 in Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (4)
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Gun owners won’t support either one. Neither will people opposed to the invasion from Mexico.
None of the Democratic candidates impress me and few of the Republicans. Almost all of them favor strong gun control and amnesty for illegal aliens. Americans have proven several times that we want to keep the second Amendment in force and we want illegal aliens simple gone. Few Democrats listen. A few Republicans don’t listen either. Time to look beyond party affiliation and look at individual candidates. Giuliani is practically a Hillary clone.
Posted by: Royce | Oct 29, 2007 12:30:49 PM
O.K., then what was Rudy doing in London the other day meeting with the new prime minister?
He should always remember that as mayor of New York City he refused to meet with many minority leaders, and certainly was less than diplomatic when handling the several questionable police shootings around the city.
Time for Rudy to hang it up!
Posted by: Ray Acevedo-Flores | Oct 29, 2007 12:34:22 PM
The more I hear from Rudy the less I like him. And that wife of his is scary! No fan of Hillary either. I will look for a candidate who will be strong on illegal immigration, (leaves out all Democratic candidates) diplomacy, jobs for Americans, and fiscal responsibility. Who meets those qualifications????
Posted by: sunny | Oct 30, 2007 11:06:22 AM
Rudy who? The pro-war Rudy who dodged and ducked the draft while real Patriots were marching off to VietNam, or the pro-gun Rudy who lambasted the NRA for opposing his policies?
Posted by: Dutch | Oct 30, 2007 11:17:42 AM
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