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Clinton Going Soft on Human Rights

By Philip Klein on 3.10.09 @ 1:24PM

The Washington Post hammers Hillary Clinton, and by extension the Obama administration, for the unwillingness to call out China, Egypt, and now Turkey on human rights violations and supression of speech. "Ms. Clinton is doing a disservice to her own department -- and sending a message to rulers around the world that their abuses won't be taken seriously by this U.S. administration," the Post editorializes.

While none of this should come as surprising, it's worth noting that during the Democratic primaries, Clinton touted her record of fighting for human rights as a key part of her vast resume of foreign policy experience, specifically boasting about a trip she made to China in 1995 in which she gave a speech about women's rights. "I've been standing up against, you know, the Chinese government over women's rights and standing up for human rights in many different places," she told CNN last March.

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Pingback| 3.10.09 @ 1:40PM

Clinton Going Soft on Human Rights — But As For Me links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

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Pingback| 3.10.09 @ 2:33PM

Fred Hiat, Gateway Pundit, The American Spectator is CDS Making a Comeback with the R links to this page. Here’s an excerpt:

…We barely as a country have a pot to piss in and you wan’t the Secretary of State to go LECTURING? Yeah. Sure. Because like everything is just peachy keene over here. Whatever. Anyway. These blogs, here and here are running a story on being *upset* all of a sudden about the Secretary of State not addressing human rights in China. The American Spectator even quoted her from March: While none of this…

Alan Brooks| 3.10.09 @ 6:57PM

human rights? smacks of Jimmuh.

btw, did you hear how Iran supposedly doesn't have enriched uranium?
so what are they hiding? chocolate mousse?

J. Kelley| 3.11.09 @ 3:36AM

This is the Clintons, after all. Bill will be shaking these Countries down for money for his projects. Republicans should have resisted her nomination for this State job. They could have at least been able to say we told you this would happen.