Hillary Vows Review Of Executive Power If Elected President

The Guardian:

Hillary Clinton would launch a policy review as president with an eye towards giving up some of the executive powers accumulated by George Bush, she tells Guardian America in an interview today.

The New York senator and frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination also accuses the Bush administration's broad brush approach to terrorism of making it harder to understand "what it is we were up against", and expresses concerns about the attitude of the president's nominee for attorney general to interrogation and "expansive" executive power.

Read the whole story: The Guardian

Comments

[tbudha]

12:50 PM on 10/25/2007

Hillary censoring free speech at Denver rally:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcgbStBJzJ4

[ang4ever]

12:28 PM on 10/25/2007

Good start. American civil liberties had been stolen away, and this administration continues to defy the Constitution.
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Signing Statements are just ruse to strip us of our Constitutional Rights. The Supreme Court held that the Presidents warrant-less taping was illegal, and while this President vows to adhere to those decisions, he then uses Signing Statements to do defy the Courts decision.
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Hillary must roll back this absolute power of the Presidency, and restore the Constitution.

[DJBrunner]

10:31 PM on 10/24/2007

When I first saw this I had mixed emotions. First and foremost it is without a doubt the right thing to do. Separation of powers and checks / balances is essential if democracy is going to work at all.

Being that there is a strong possibility that the next president will be a Dem (providing the moron-in-chief (MIC) doesn't cancel them) I'd just love to hear the wining start when the shoe is on the other foot (or party in this case) from the hypocritical rubber stamp Rethugs who gave the MIC these powers to begin with starting in 2001 and continuing through the last Congress.

Before relinquishing these 'extra powers' the new president ought to first stuff down the throats of the Rethugs what the majority of people in this country want:

(1) Bringing the troops home from IRAQ
(2) Repeal of the Patriot Act and Military Commissions Act
(3) Closing of Abu Ghraib
(4) Following the Geneva Conventions in regards to torture
(5) Prosecuting the phone companies for spying on Americans
(6) Disbanding and outlawing Blackwater type companies.

Last and probably the most important thing which needs to be accomplished is to get it set in stone that these 'extra powers' can never again be acquired, or ignored under penalty of impeachment, by a president unless at least two thirds of both houses of Congress vote it so. We must ensure that this never is allowed to happen again.

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[OhgReaTone]

04:39 PM on 10/24/2007

The issue of Presidential Power is central to the proper function of our entire Government system.
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[zitlight73]

02:45 PM on 10/24/2007

So Senator Clinton wants to wait until she's elected president(if there are elections)before she'll do anything about the un-constitutional power grabs by Cheney-Bush. As senator she was sworn to uphold the Constitution of the United States and all the un-aalienable guaranteed by it. Failing to do so now as a senator would make her a liar and traitor to the people and the country she was elected to represent. Cheney and Bush are verifiable pyschopaths Hilary is a cold calculating reptile.

[Bobleblah1]

01:31 PM on 10/24/2007

"That has to be part of the review I undertake when I get to the White House, and I intend to do that," she said.

Wait did we have an election already?
Every time I examine this person I am left with the impression that she is someone who doesn't believe a word that comes out of her own mouth.

[mrcontinental]

01:30 PM on 10/24/2007

LOL! Good one Hillary! ROFLMAO! Please stop, it hurts when I laugh this hard!

[cryingeagle]

01:19 PM on 10/24/2007

Senator Hillary Clinton said yesterday that if she is elected president, she intends to roll back President Bush's expansion of executive authority, including his use of presidential signing statements to put his own interpretation on bills passed by Congress or to claim authority to disobey them entirely.

"I think you have to restore the checks and balances and the separation of powers, which means reining in the presidency," Clinton told the Boston Globe's editorial board.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/10/11/clinton_vows_to_check_executive_power/


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[itmaybetoolate]

12:53 PM on 10/24/2007

She might? She will review?! Reason enough NOT to vote for her. I will vote for the person who wants to return the executive branch to its rightful role as an EQUAL arm of the government. A clinton dictator is still a dictator. Gore or Dodd!

[Pauper]

12:53 PM on 10/24/2007

Only "we the people" will be able to remove ourselves from the tyranny of the imperial presidency. But beware - it wont be the National Guard, Army, or cops that will kill us for being "subversives" - it'll be companies like Blackwater.

[SmellyOne]

12:24 PM on 10/24/2007

She doesn't mean it.

I hate to paint with a broad brush, but every one of them politicians is a fucking liar.

It's part of the job description.

[TNFarmer]

12:17 PM on 10/24/2007

"...giving up some of the executive powers accumulated by George Bush." Gee, and I thought the Constitution was somehow involved in defining our ruler's powers. Silly me.

Neither she, Bush, or whoever sits in the ivory tower should have any say in what "powers" the Prez gets or gives up.

[yappnmutt]

12:15 PM on 10/24/2007

tooooo effing funny!!!! and to think people wnt to vote for this wacko dimocrat. there are only two candidates for dimocrats and repugnants. they are, respectively, kucinich and paul. the rest are mussolini light.

[angryruth]

12:05 PM on 10/24/2007

maybe Chris Dodd could give Ms. Clinton a briefing
on our Constitution; the bitch loves power and
she has been totally corrupted by it!!