Oh hey remember this dust up? Where Hillary said that Obama was “naive and irresponsible” for saying he would meet with Iran without preconditions?
Now she’s saying the same thing.
CANTERBURY, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton called Barack Obama naive when he said he’d meet with the leaders of Iran without precondition. Now she says she’d do the same thing, too.
During a Democratic presidential debate in July, Obama said he would be willing to meet without precondition in the first year of his presidency with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
Standing with him on stage, Clinton said she would first send envoys to test the waters and called Obama’s position irresponsible and naive.
But asked about it Thursday by a voter, the New York senator said twice that she, too, would negotiate with Iran ”with no conditions.”
”I would engage in negotiations with Iran, with no conditions, because we don’t really understand how Iran works. We think we do, from the outside, but I think that is misleading,” she said at an apple orchard.
She characterized her recent vote to label Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps a terrorist organization as a way to gain leverage for those negotiations.
So she adopts his position, and then claims that labelling Iran’s army as a terrorist organization will help her to meet them with no conditions.
Obama once again proves himself to be out in front, and Hillary once again proves herself to be an inconsistent shrew.
A couple of months ago, Senator Clinton called me “naïve and irresponsible” for taking this position, and said that we could lose propaganda battles if we met with leaders we didn’t like. Just yesterday, though, she called for diplomacy with Iran without preconditions. So I’m not sure if any of us knows exactly where she stands on this. But I can tell you this: when I am President of the United States, the American people and the world will always know where I stand.
