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Hillary WOWs Capitol Hill – Round II!

By SusanUnPC on April 22, 2009 at 8:55 PM in Current Affairs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton

If you thought the videos of Hillary’s appearance today before the House Foreign Affairs committee showed off her brilliant and elegantly thoughtful responses, wait until you see these additional videos, which B. found and sent to me (thank you, B!). [Update: Watch the entire hearing. h/t B.] The first and third videos are different with their preachy, full-frontal assaults on Hillary. But she handles them like the pro she is.

“Inglis gets destroyed on HIllary’s view on abortion in China!,” writes B. Inglis is one stubborn ideological hack, isn’t he.

BELOW, a passionate plea on behalf of all political prisoners in Cuba:

This is Congressman Chris Smith asking SecState Clinton for her help in freeing political prisoners in Cuba who are being treated horribly:

Here, Congressman Jeff Fortenberry “dialogues with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing on foreign policy.” His staff uses the term “dialogue”? How about “haranque”? How about his being STUCK on a single issue that apparently trumps all else in the highly complex world of foreign affairs?

Last, but not least, here’s Ron Paul quizzing HIllary:

Notice too that Hillary doesn’t have a phalanx of aides on either side of her to supply her with answers; she’s so well-prepared, she doesn’t need crutches, let alone props like charts.

  • TeakwoodKite

    I have the C-Span Queued up. Yesterday, I noticed, in one of those rare moments when the TV is off, the C-Span bug burned into screen.

  • elise

    She never hesitates or struggles with words and I think it’s because she works hard and stays true to her principles. I would be so proud to call her president.

  • http://www.marklevinshow.com Ulysses S. Moss

    Guess what folks..

    I give credit where it is do…Many of you during the selection period argued with me over Hillary becoming SOS…I made the point that it would give balance and reason to foreign policy and plus the superior intellect that Hillary has would guide this president to centrist policies
    Although I know about the process and how not accepting this position would have impacted her negatively I have concluded that you all were right and she should have just stayed away from Obama.
    In fact she could have stayed away and started a third party with McCain centrists.
    Instead she is in the middle of a vortex for which she cannot escape.
    If Hillary had been elected we wouldn’t be seeing the destruction of our heritage,culture and individual liberties along with our position in the world
    Hillary never would have met with dictators without preconditions. Hillary would never have apolgized and surrendered American power to the world.
    Hillary would have defended Liberty and democracy throughout the world and defended those that are in opposition to these tyrannies.

    • Docelder

      Yes, Seattle. She might have helped elect McCain. Been the go to person for uniting and healing the country. She might have stayed in the senate, became the bluedog from h*ll… a veritable thorn in the side of Obama and helping unite the broad center. Now instead, she has allowed Obama to paint her into a corner. If he fails, she fails. She may well fail in public opinion at his discretion. Her fate is in his hands now. Not a good place to be at all. But then again McCain should have kept to his word and stayed focused on the economy instead of blinking and letting Obama paint him into a corner. In politics, there is no mercy. Neither of these candidates could stand toe to toe with the Chicago machine when it counted most… both blinked and lost.

      • http://www.marklevinshow.com Ulysses S. Moss

        Obama’s favorite movie the Godfather

        No alarm bells there!!

        2012 will see the rise of an Iron candidate to lead the backlash

        This person hasn’t emerged yet

        • Steve_in_KC

          I’m just waiting for the right moment to announce my candidacy, but thanks for being my vanguard!

          ;)

      • Paula Revere

        As for McCain? I am sick and tired of people blaming him for how things went down. No one remembers the stunt Harry Reid the scumbag pulled, do they? Well, it cost McCain the election basically. Yet another slimy liberal who thought winning at any cost was okay. You gotta love that Harry Dirtbag Reid. I hope to God Nevada gets rid of him in 2010.

        • http://www.marklevinshow.com Ulysses S. Moss

          Did you read my post Paula

          I was basically saying that you and a bunch of folks on NQ were right about Hillary having no influence in foreign policy and being caught up in the whirlwind.

          I like to give credit just like I do at work…

          Obama/Wright/Ayers/Flager/Alinsky/Chavez are the new America.
          Hillary like McCain could not stop the Coup orchestrated against this country.

          • Paula Revere

            Correctamundo USMoss! No one can stop this crap and if everyone is putting this country’s survival on Hillary, I hope you aren’t really disappointed.

            • http://www.marklevinshow.com Ulysses S. Moss

              The first firewall was Hillary
              The second firewall was McCain
              The third and final firewall

              Levin!

        • Docelder

          I voted for McCain. He was probably the perfect candidate for us at this time. Perfect not only for us but also the republican party. The far right abandoned him. Yes, the financial crisis was manufactured. In spite of all of that… McCain had Obama. He had the high ground on the economy when he abandoned the campaign and debate and he turned around and let Obama shame him into leaving Washington and going to the debate. Well debates don’t mean much now do they? They don’t mean anything when a candidates word isn’t worth squat. So, in retrospect, which is always easy… McCain ceded the election by showing up for that first debate. He had Obama painted into a corner, he let him out and got painted into a corner himself. Fair or not, McCain had to do something extraordinary to even have a level playing field. It didn’t happen.

          • Paula Revere

            Well, the Harry Reid thing? Harry Reid called McCain early in the morning and told him to get to DC, they needed him. Like the big patriot he was, he went. Then, later, they said they didn’t want McCain there and didn’t ask him, or need him. It was a total set up by the Dimwits and that buffoon Reid, to embarrass McCain. The whole thing was shameful, and horrible to do to someone like McCain who fought for our country and survived immense torture. And people wonder why there is a backlash against the far left coming.

            • Docelder

              But, I would say that more of the same is still more of the same. We don’t need another backlash, we need the center to step forward and take control. We outnumber the wingers at either end probably by 80-10-10 percent. I was raised in a conservative state by democrat parents. I have been a republican my entire adult life. I am done with party, the parties are meaningless now because they represent the interests of the 10-10 percents at either end of the extreme. The larger 80 percent has been free to the 10-10 parties because they have been driven by fear into voting one way or the other. Most of us want mostly the same things from government. We need a third party. We need to take this country back.

              • Paula Revere

                Well, if the DNC hadn’t committed voter fraud, stolen Hillary’s nomination, and screwed America with Obama, then the really partisan Dems wouldn’t have had to “hold their noses” and vote for a “dirty republican” would they?

                • imustprotest

                  good point!

              • b mathews

                we need to get rid of all the old, entrenched, corrupt politicans of both parties, in the 2010 election and bring in some fresh new faces who have no grievances with each other. maybe some 3rd party (a stepping stone to the next GE). its the only way to bring both parties together. maybe the next tea party can focus on this and we’ve got a whole new movement.

          • Peggy Sue

            I also voted for McCain, Dolceder. I voted for the man, not the party. McCain was my second choice. Hillary Clinton had my full support but she was kicked to the curb in the primaries. We can blame the Dems until the day is long, but the Republicans “did not” support their own candidate. Four + milliion Democrats crossed party lines and voted for John McCain, but it wasn’t enough to pull the election out. The GOP was a weak noodle. My take? McCain was not “Republican” enough.

            And McCain did indeed make mistakes. Why did he withdraw, literally wilt, after suspending his campaign because of the economic tailspin? I respected that decision, but he failed to capitalize on his initial instinct.

            Maybe, if we live long enough, the history books will tell us. But McCain and his lackluster GOP support threw the election to 0bama.

            Why? It remains a troubling mystery.

            • Docelder

              Yes, what I was hearing was there was no difference between McCain and Hillary. O.K. say that was true… there is a world of difference between McCain and Obama. McCain has done everything for this country short of dying for it and Obama has been given the benefit of everything McCain fought for, and he doesn’t even appreciate that fact. McCain was the perfect candidate for us in 2008. I don’t know where we are headed as a nation. But I do know, we will either pull it together and help ourselves or we are headed for a red state vs. blue state split the likes of which we have not seen since the civil war. The way it is looking, we will get attacked again. That attack may unite us as it did in 2001, or it may well divide us further. Obama is not a uniter, he is a divider. If we are to unite, then somebody else will need to step up.

              • Paula Revere

                Our lives would have been 180 degrees different had it been McCain. We would be loving our country, feeling great about fighting for her survival, rather than watching this complete buffoon humiliate us all over the globe and put us in danger. Never mind that he is colluding with other countries to destroy the Dollar and make us part of the IMF.

                Obama is the worst thing to ever happen to this country. Ever. The Bush thing isn’t even close and NO I am not saying that because I am a Bushie. I am SAYING that he is more dangerous than ten of Bush. Period. We all know that.

                I will vote GOP straight ticket from now on. What the Dems did by shoving Obama down my throat is unspeakable. Anyone who supports the DNC after what they have done is a traitor. Period. I can’t even read these disturbing posts that the ENTIRE responsibility for Obama is on the GOP. How sick and deranged is THAT? The ONLY people responsible for nominating Obama, and taking Hillary out of the race, are the Moonbat sick f**ks in power now – the Dimwits. Period. Some of you people are your own danger to America. Start putting blame where it belongs. ROFLMAO. Yeah, Obama was the GOP nominee. It’s all their fault. WHAT A JOKE.

                So, you people won’t vote those in Congress OUT in 2010? Because you can’t vote THIRD PARTY? Shame on you. There isn’t going to be a big Third Party organized by 2012. So, please, vote Obama back in since this nonsense is so PARTISAN. Bring Obama back for another four miserable, sad, disgusting years IF we are even still here. Christ.

                • Docelder

                  There is time. There has never been a better time for it. The new media is replacing the traditional left wing controlled media. The Internet is the vehicle to return this country to the people. I think that is why the far left now wants the Internet czar so badly now. Note the recent propaganda releases about power grid hacks and defense contractor hacks. The far left wants to nail down the Internet. They can’t. The Internet was designed to be redundant and to be a source of free information. The Internet will make it and so will we. There is time.

              • Peggy Sue

                Dolceder said:

                “O.K. say that was true… there is a world of difference between McCain and Obama. McCain has done everything for this country short of dying for it and Obama has been given the benefit of everything McCain fought for, and he doesn’t even appreciate that fact.”

                We agree, Dolceder. I respected McCain’s sacrifice and though I did not agree with every McCain point, I agreed enough. And so he got my vote.

                But you’re right. Someone needs to step up, someone who can cross the divide and speak to the right and left middle with the same convincing tenor that 0bama pretended he was speaking to–the vast middle ground. I like Sarah Palin as a person. She has the “x” factor, but she’s simply not ready. And I don’t see a credible candidate out there. At least not yet. Of course, there’s the outside chance that we’ll be attacked again [God forbid]. Then Obama and all his merry men are toast. Ar that point, the GOP will be able elect Quasimodo.

                Otherwise? We’re looking at 8 years of missteps and misdirection. Elections have consequences.

    • Paula Revere

      I just spent an hour on the phone with a friend of mine in politics in DC. Apparently all is not well in Clinton land with the Fraud. My friend said “Bil and Hillary have figured out that they can’t work with Obama.” However, the bad news is…we’re pretty much done. He said before Obama went to that G20 thing he was saying that he wouldn’t collapse the Dollar and force America into the IMF. Apparently the Queen of England is part of the problem, and one of the people who is pushing for America to join this global currency and turn our treasury over to it. At the G20, Obama signed that document that will make America no longer sovereign and part of this global mess. We would be told how much money we could spend and it would be dictated by these other nuts. Can we undo it? Probably not. It appears that we are done for good.

      Also, he said that Pelosi is one of the number one people with Summers and Geithner in on the swindle with the bank bailouts. That there are 200 accounts, or more, of fraud being reported as to how the money has been handled. Also that most of the money is going to Goldman Sachs because of Paulson. But we are being swindled big time. Right under our noses.

      He said that some big stuff about Fannie and Freddie will be coming out in the next week. And as we all know, the CFO of Freddie killed himself this morning. Very odd and I don’t buy the suicide thing. First it was reported he hanged himself, next it was a gunshot wound. WTF?

      The other thing he said was that, after the G20 thing, we are being literally laughed at by the leaders of all these countries, particularly Russia who has what an idiot Obama is all over the press in their country. But it’s really bad for us that they no longer consider us to be leaders in the free world.

      Okay, I could go on forever. The only hope I had on this call was that this guy said the world was waking up to what a Fraud Obama is. I asked if he would be there for all four years. He wasn’t sure, but he thinks if he does make it all four that America won’t exist. And with all the money we are spending, we won’t have the means to defend ourselves against our enemies.

      • b mathews

        perhaps that is exactly what 0bama has in mind. to weaken our country, monitarily, defensewise,respectwise and any other way he can so that we will be so downtrodden we will accept anything he does. or maybe to make way for his friends (muslims?, chicago cronies? who really knows?)to take over. i have always thought this was his real agenda…to change america but into what?

  • Murph

    I continue to learn from this astoundingly smart and principled woman — her words, her ideas, her manner, her ability to field the constant attacks and challenges.

    These men? Tiresome blowhards.

    • Tricia Spiegel

      Agree with you, Murph!

      • maddie

        Also agree with you, Murph!!

  • Peggy Sue

    Thank you, Susan, for the additional vids. I loved the response [hardly retiring] to Inglis and Fortenberry. They tried to nail her to the wall. But she was having none of it. And good for her!

    On the other hand, I genuinely enjoyed the exchange between Ron Paul and Secretary Clinton. It’s small moments like this that we realize we’re dealing with human beings and despite our differences we can witness exchanges between the loyal opposition that isn’t fraught with off-putting nastiness or wearisome political indictments.

    Good show. Like elise, I would be proud to call HRC POTUS. But I’m also proud to call her Madame Secretary. She brings true class to the position.

  • Linda Anselmi

    Susan -

    Thanks for posting part I & II on Hillary. Only got a chance to catch a few minutes on C-span tonight. Not sure how she manages to keep getting more and more impressive, but she does.

  • T

    Hillary should have stayed in the Senate. It’s painful to see her carry the heavy water for Obama who is clearly botching every issue. He’s not worthy. Obama is simply not ready to be President. Hillary is damaging her own credibility.

    • Ani

      Oh please. Somebody has to step up to the plate in spite of him. She is damaging nothing. Anybody knows she is doing her best to clean up the mess and run interference with other nations.

      The Senate is a disaster — if she were there, people would complain too because she can’t just be seen as an obstructionist to the Dems, then they’d start back with the same ole’ blame Hillary meme. It’s ridiculous. It looks to me like she can never please his supporters and cannot even please her own. This was entirely the problem she had in the primary. So many wanted to damn her for something.

      She wants to serve her country any way she can. Yes, she is a politician but no one can doubt she loves America — she has been doing her best to serve it for many years.

      Truly I respect people’s right to be angry with her if they wish, but really, it is so easy for us to sit, in anonymity at our keyboards, and second guess her. There is so much going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to. I was also one of the people fearing for her taking SoS because I do not trust him. I still don’t know what the better alternative is. She is doing a great job in a difficult situation.

      Her own party was ready to crucify her and still she is looking at the bigger picture — America is the bigger picture and she would rather be on the inside putting her two cents in than not have any say at all. I for one, am grateful.

      That doesn’t mean I will always agree with her but I respect her work ethic.

      • Peggy Sue

        Ani said:

        “Truly I respect people’s right to be angry with her if they wish, but really, it is so easy for us to sit, in anonymity at our keyboards, and second guess her. There is so much going on behind the scenes that we are not privy to. I was also one of the people fearing for her taking SoS because I do not trust him. I still don’t know what the better alternative is. She is doing a great job in a difficult situation. ”

        She is indeed doing a terrific job in an impossible situation. She was and will always be my candidate and has a long and distinguished record to put most, if not all, rivals to shame. She has my respect and my admiration. Thank God, we have someone to trust in this troubled administration.

  • RobWarrior

    If Hillary stayed in the Senate it would have gone down one of two ways.

    1. She would be on board with the Democratic Majority, signed off on stimulus, omnibus and all the other crap that has already come down the line

    2. Or offered opposition, lost in the final votes anyway and be painted by the media as a sore loser who can’t get over the primaries and is trying to embarras our brilliant and enormously popular President. The drum beats from the MSM would be louder than ever and would severely hamper her ability to do any good in that chamber. They wouldn’t even let her have a meaningful role in crafting health care legisilation.

    She is not playing a great hand now as SOS, but it is a better hand than having stayed behind in the Senate. If there is any shot for her in 2012, it will be because of the economy and the deficit. It will be because of stimulus that didn’t work and bailouts that backfired. Because she is at state, she will be the one prominent Democrat whose name is not on any of it.

    • Ani

      Correct. I don’t think she has any shot in ’12 anyway — no one run against the incumbent — particularly not him. He would literally have to be doing so badly that he would “bow out for health reasons” or some such excuse to it possible for her.

      • Paula Revere

        Ani,

        Maybe he won’t BE the incumbent? I really have a hard time thinking he will complete this term.

        • Docelder

          Let us pray we have not seen our last peaceful transfer of power.

        • b mathews

          i think by 2012 after he has taken a free tour of the world for himself and 500 of his closest friends and finally has to stay in D.C and do some actual work, he will have become bored with the job.

  • Amalia

    she is simply amazing. i was lucky enough to watch most of her time in the witness chair this am and it was a treat. she answered virtually everything that came at her, admitted when she did not know something, was funny (that bit about Paul on the campaign trail was great), warm and genuine.

    and unflinching in her defense of women’s rights everywhere. i wish she were the pres, but i’m glad she is in there working for us. remember, she is working for us!

  • beachnan

    I got a chance to watch Hillary on C-span and she blew me away. She sat in that chair and talked about a gazillion issues with so much knowledge, that I was again reminded why I supported her and will continue to support her. She is the only positive that I can see in this administration. She is working hard for you and me, despite her boss, who keeps mucking it up for America. I keep thinking how different things would be if more people stopped treating the Presidency like it’s a popularity contest ala American Idol. I pray we are learning from our mistakes. People must understand that we must have the best and the brightest leading us, and that is not what we got with Obama. I may be crazy, but I think that Hillary is so much smarter and better at what she does than Obama, who is not ready for prime time. We cannot afford 3 more years of this administration, and no way a second term. I am grateful to have Hillary as SOS at this time and I refuse to give up on my dream of her as Prez.

  • http://noquarterusa No-nonsense-Nancy

    Did anyone else notice that the sign in front of Hillary simply said “The Secretary of State”? They didn’t even have the courtesy of haveing a plaque with her name on it. They still don’t give her the respect that she deserves.

  • Dawnelle

    &#^$INGLISROFLOL$#@!

    what a PUNK

    I don’t even know if I want to watch the rest of the clips. That first guy was just such a PUNK!! omg where are the REAL MEN in WASHINGTON??? dang that a jerk was SUCH a PUNK! (oh yea said that already) ;-) (on to the next video)

    HILLARY U ROCK SISTA! I just wish you weren’t rockin it for BAMBI & HIS JUICE BAR