Hillary's Terror Comments

In the past week, Democratic favorite in the run up to the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton, had a few interesting words.

She said, "It's a horrible prospect to ask yourself, 'What if? What if?' But if certain things happen between now and the election, particularly with respect to terrorism, that will automatically give the Republicans an advantage again, no matter how badly they have mishandled it, no matter how much more dangerous they have made the world."

She also said in regard to the prospect of terrorism, "So I think I'm the best of the Democrats to deal with that."

The Republican Party has lived and died in the 2004 and last November's elections when playing the terrorism card. They reiterated time and time again that the Republican Party was more equipped to dealing with the prospect of terrorism and would be more apt than the Democratic Party to prevent such acts from occurring on our soil again. This won Bush the 2004 election against John Kerry and lost Republicans the majority in Congress last November.

So, why is Hillary Clinton subtlely and suddenly playing that same card? She criticizes the prospect of asking the "What ifs" in regard to terrorism or anything else and then comes back with asking the "What if", herself and attempting to play that to her advantage. Republicans attempted to frighten Americans into voting for them in the 2004 presidential election and again last November. Are the Democrats going to join the fear game or will it just be Hillary Clinton vs. the Republicans? I hope that neither party plays that card when election time draws near, but that would be very naive of me to believe that it would actually occur. Hopefully Hillary elaborates and clarifies on the statements she made earlier in the week, because she ticked off many of her fellow Democrats with them.