This is why Hillary can not be trusted with the security of American families.

Senator Clinton is not a consistent person — end of the story. She is a shrewd politician but not a consistent person. She goes wherever the political winds blow her.

I second the sentiments of so many Americans — we don't need dynasties in our country. NO MORE BUSHES. NO MORE CLINTONS. The way it looks like things are going, we'll have 12 years of George Bush Sr. — 8 as VP, 4 as pres — (an excellent foreign policy president by the way), 8 years of Bill Clinton, 8 years of Bush Jr., 8 years of Hillary Clinton… and then, oh yes, we will clamor for Jeb Bush…. Then what? George Bush III (Jeb's son) and Chelsea Clinton will be old enough to take up the next generation of the Bush-Clinton tag team. Maybe they can have offspring, eradicate the constitution and formalize a new monarchy? Or they can just keep rigging the system for 52 years of uninterrupted Bush-Clinton rule. I wish I was joking but I find the closeness of former presidents Bush and Clinton to be troubling. I find our willingness to have elected Bush Jr. troubling. I find the front-runner status of Hillary Clinton scary. I find the favorable status of Jeb Bush, as president in waiting, troubling.

We all should be very scared that this women has a chance to become our next president. I'm not against a women being president, just this women. She has no integrity what so ever. We need to elect a person with integrity and someone who is not afraid to stand up for what he or she believes in, not someone who tries to make everyone happy. You can't make everyone happy. My choice for our next president is Mitt Romney because I beleive he is a man of integrity and he is an honest person. He is a sucessful businessman and isn't running government like running a business? Go MITT! Hopefully we will be calling you Mr. President.

How come no comments were printed here? It is easy to guess why.

She is so scared of Barak. She calls him naive for stating his poisition and that you should hold back. What a hypocrite. Now she is not holding back and saying no nukes. What gies Hillary.

SUGGEST WE LOOK AT OTHER DEMOCRATS RUNNING NOW. The groupthink and Bills influence has put you in a trance. Edwards, Rommney anyone. HILLARY NO.

Only a bias media pushing a candidate would put a question mark after this intro. Can you guess who CNN wants to be President?

She is a liar. I hope people are taking note. But probably not.

She's a walking contradiction.

"Obama just says things to get people’s attention"

Or he could just be an out of the box Democrat!

I always said Obama should have been an independent.

As for Hilary, her campaign is the same as the Dem campaigns before her with the exception that she gets to piggy back of her former pres hubby. Typical Dem campaign rhetoric, Bash your opponent, make a fuss, have no ideas of your own, and present details only when you have to counter.

Yes, let's put another slacker in the white house.

Jamilah Brown

Wait, where IS the contradiction? I've read this article three times over to make sure. Clinton and Obama both say nukes are not an option.

Where's the contradiction?

why the question mark? it is a clear contradiction in her effort to appear as a moderate. she is a flip flopper.

What an unabashed hypocrite!

This woman will say anything to get elected. Why are Democrats still being fooled by her?

Truly, Obama just says things to get people's attention. I understand from what I saw that, not only Sen. Clinton, but the other candidates were not surprised with Obama's answer, but also were unconfortable to find themselves with a contender with so little common sense. If one is to be married, and will cheat… should they tell their fianceé that they are going to? Does that answer the question?

This is ridiculous. You can talk about it when you are a senator, but not in a presidential campaign. That is when the voters need you to talk about it, Clinton, because that is how we make up our minds, but knowing what you will do. If you can talk about it one time and not another, well, then it is apparent it just was a political calculation on your part that you could smear Obama by making an irrelevant criticism. What game are you playing, Clintion? Not my game.

I believe Hillary appears to be "waffling" a bit on foreign policy because she solidly recognizes that she will be the next president of the United States. Given that, the leaders of foreign countries are listening to what she says now. What they do in response will influence not only what mess she inherits, with anything they do between now and then, but will determine her effectiveness in dealing with these powers after she gains office. Recall her comment to Obama - be careful you do not say what you are thinking - our leaders are listening…..

This is the second time that Hillary has bashed Obama on stances she herself has promoted. It's obvious to me that the Clinton machine will say or do anything to squash political challenge - lie, steal, cheat, and especially deny or qualify any stance they have ever taken.

I still don' t know where she stands on the iraq war… and in the past month, she's from Arkansas, Illinois, and New York… these con-men don't deserve to guide our country just to sate their egos.

This should be the top story on CNN–just like Obama's comments on nukes were. WHY IS IT NOT? MAKE IT #1 CNN, SO THAT PEOPLE SEE HER TRUE NATURE.

I am tired of this!

She's a democrat, a darling of the media. You won't post any "civil" comments aganist the fav. of the media.
I founmd that out. So much for freedom of expression with Clinton News Network.

I still haven't decided who to vote for yet, however, I have decided I will NOT vote for CLINTON. We have already had 8 years of her husband and 12 years of the Bush's. Do we really want to risk another 8 years of another CLINTON? That will make 28 years of CLINTON's and BUSH's. I have enough of both of these families!

Finally CNN has taken on Hillary Clinton in one of many examples of the hypocrisy she emulates.

She is playing purely political games, and she will say ANYTHING to get elected. This is but only one example of her double speak. Case-in-point, read what she actually said at the AFL-CIO Forum in Chicago a few days ago.

"remember, you shouldn’t always say everything you think if you’re running for president."

Ofcourse not, why in the world would we ever want to elect a president who actually tells the American people what they actually think.. How foolish of me..

She must have really learned a lot from the Bush admininstration on that front.

These guys (and gal) will never tell you what they really think because they know if they open their big mouths, they ALL might as well forget about being President.

Finally so objective writting! It seems to me there are alot of things said by Obama, that are always taken out of contexts. Somethings have to be implied before hand. They say that those who speak their minds are often the ones with nothing to hide. Imagine the day when all of our politicians will dare the speak their minds!

Classic Clinton. She will say anything to anyone to get what she wants. She is a kite in the wind-no moral compass…her only guide is to stick her finger in the air and do what is easiest today.

We need a real leader in the White House. Someone who has been an executive and who will make correct, long-term decisions. Hillary is not that person. Her decisions (as evidenced by this comment here) are made for short-term political gain or for a quick soundbite on AC 360. America and the world can not afford short-term answers when life and death and the future of the free world is at stake.

Jihadist terrorists who want to kill us…China wanting to undermine us…Iran killing our troops daily…Mrs. Clinton is the wrong person for President.

Give us a break and before you chastise any Democratic candidate on an issue of definition (i.e. what is or is not socialized medicine) deal with the motive and give credit where credit is due. How many Americans including children do you think will be helped with medical coverage rather than the Republican way of outrageous self-interest?

Talking about living in a glass house, Soledad, you need to look into Obama's hypocrisy in attacking Hillary about lobbyists' donations, ABC's report today that Obama authored legislation exempting a foreign company from paying fees, thanks to the help from a representative (lobbyist) of that company who donated $$$ to Obama. It sounds like quid pro quo to me.

Mrs. Clinton was for nukes before she was agains nukes. She was for NAFTA, Def Of Marraige Act, Dont Ask Dont tell, Iraq (she was niave because she was mislead by Pres. Bush but doesnt admit the war was wrong) and GAT before she was against it. It seems to me Mrs. Clinton always takes credit for the good things like the surpluses during her husband admin but reduses to take responiblity for the bad things. A pattern. Hmmmm.

Yes, CNN reported that Obama’s comments cause a negative public response in Pakistan further destabilizing the sensitive social political situation in Pakistan.
Unlike the Taliban that invited, welcomed and supported terrorism, Pakistan has been invaded by unwelcomed terrorists.
Yes, there is a big difference.
Clearly telling President Bush to cool off on Nuclear threats as part and parcel of his diplomacy is an important message to send to Bush. Isn’t that how we got into this mess in Iraq? Why repeat the same blunder again?

Can you say DOUBLETALK?

What a political beast this woman is.

Two nights ago at the AFL-CIO debate, Hillary Clinton said, "if you need someone to take on the right, I'm your girl."

This sound bite was almost Bush worthy in it's level of divisiveness and stupidity.

I don't need you to take on the right, Mrs. Clinton. I don't need a champion of the left to jump in there and stir up the base the same way Bush has done to the right for the last six years.

The base won't gain you the Presidency, ma'am.

The time for the sort of us versus them mentality typified by your niave statement last night, Mrs. Clinton, is over.

Barrack Obama is tapping into the feeling that pervades this country, the feeling that we are all of ONE NATION, FOR THE PEOPLE, not "for the politicians". Beyond that, I can think of others who have been much more willing to "take on the right" than you have, not least of which is Barry Obama.

MRS. CLINTON, YOU HAVEN’T BEEN TAKING ON THE RIGHT. You haven’t been speaking up in Congress, you’ve been safely hiding…

You blindly voted for a Right sponsored disaster of a war and have never apologized for your mistake.

You stand by and say nothing as others call for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney as they break law after law and craft bigger lie after lie to cover it.

While the American Constitution goes the way of a bald eagle in a bathtub full of DDT you say less than others in an effort to protect your meaningless status.

Did I hear you speak up when Habius Corpus was reversed and when anyone’s rights where stripped away merely by the “accusation” of being a terrorist?
When Nancy Pelosi was arguing that point, or the point warrartless wiretapping was illegal where you there beside her on C-SPAN?

The two “girls” in action?

Nope. Even John McCain spoke far more memorably about it than whatever sound bite you espoused at the time.

When it was revealed that Alberto Gonzalez had tried to coerce John Ashcroft into signing an illegal surviellence program on possibly his deathbed were you speaking out in outrage like John Webb or Harry Reid or even Joe Biden?

Were you even half as outspoken as Arlen Spector for cryin out loud, when he said that he’s lost all crediblity in our Attorney General? Or when he found out that an attorney in his own office authorized provisions of the Patriot Act that give the President absolute sole authority, totally bypassing your own Congress, to decide arbitrarily who should be a U.S. Attorney?

When it became known that the U.S. is outsourcing it’s interrogations of POWs and suspected terrorists to countries in the former Soviet Union, Syria and Cuba, were you there besides the dozens of other Senators that loudly proclaimed it’s unconstitutionality?

Where you beside President Jimmy Carter a few months ago when he called George W. Bush the worst President in history?
Or when he wrote two scathing books on the effects of the current administration? Was your book as decisive and harsh to the right?

If it was, I can't remember the chapter.

I think you were complaining somewhat about Bush, but it was not quite as loud, not quite as up front as Mr. Carter or the others, was it?

Why? Because it's not presidential enough?

Did you personally try and block the vote that 14 of your fellow democrats signed last Friday that made Bush’s illegal spying on Americans over the last six years legal, even despite the total unconstitutionality of the law?

Nope.

Somehow, I doubt you’re our girl, Mrs. Clinton. I think you’d be okay, maybe not as bad.

Not bad ain’t enough. Shame on you for pandering to the audience and making yourself into a progressive.
YOU ARE NOT PROGRESSIVE, you are REACTIVE.

If any infrastructure needs a major overhaul, it’s that of the U.S. Government, starting with yourself.

Obama ‘08.

At least the man still has his integrity and I believe what his ads say. His message hasn’t had time to be as corrupted as yours has been ma’am.

Thank God he’s running now, instead of waiting another 10 years to become as cautious as you have become.

"“I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table."
Ok…THAT's not a hypothetical? Hillary Clinton wasn't saying SHE would take nukes off the table IF she were President?

This "explanation" is beyong hilarious. There are so many more contradictions that will be forthcoming from Hillary…just watch.

"But was Clinton caught in a contraction after attacking Obama for ruling out the nuclear option in Pakistan and Afghanistan?"

Was she having a baby or did she say can't?

I am surprised CNN reported this. Isn't Hilary your girl! This is just one of the times Hilary got caught on tape. So typical for this bought and paid for career politician. She will say anything that severs her at the time. I am sure she will try to worm her way out of this.
I will take Obamas' "inexperience" any day over Hilary's lies. Why can't she just run her own campaign and stop the dirt so early on.

I didn't see a Flip or a Flop, the reason is that now things are a hundred times more complicated since Bush got in office, now things must approached differently than before. Who ever get in office in Washington, things are going to be tough, the reason is in the facts, and the facts are Bush has changed all of the rules, we must approach all avenues with a different view, it must be resolved Diplomatically, if not Hillary is prepared to deal w/that too, you can bet on this.
Hillary is the best candidate we could possible trust to get this mess cleaned up, she has my vote.

Clinton's "people" can back-pedal all they want…it doesn't change the fact that she's a big hypocrite.

Hmph. Why can't everyone just say "I won't use nuclear weapons?"

Unless there's a drastic change in world affairs and someone like Russia or China is pointing their nukes at us, there's no reason to even consider using them, especially when the regions in question (Iran, Afghanistan/Pakistan) have civilians everywhere.

Hillary should have agreed with Obama on this one, especially considering her previous comments.

So Mrs. Clinton has one set of answers as a senator, but another set now that she's running for president? Thank you, Mr. Obama, for holding an honest dialog with the American public.

also, Hilary's own aide is saying she wasn't relevant when this statement was made, much like she's not relevant now. Obama 08.

this article is full of typo's… Iram? "contraction" instead of contradiction? get it together CNN.

hilary has shown me, through all the debates i've watched, that she will say anything to get elected. this contradiction is no surprise, and i'm glad that CNN is actually reporting this, instead of all the obama slander they've been posting.

She made no apologies for authorizing a war that has created hundreds of widows and orphans, billions of dollars and our reputation abroad. She made no apologies for arrogantly declaring that she will continue to take money from lobbyists.

What did you expect here? That she will say "Sorry it was a mistake to accuse senator Obama for something I too am guilty of”? This is one of those cases where voters would have to look at the facts and judge for themselves whether or not a potential president is already persistently lying to the American people and making no apologies even before she’s nominated. Imagine what she’ll do if she enters the Oval Office.

These people are good at it and even the press cannot stop them. Only the American people can, with the one thing that they desperately need- our vote.

Was Clinton about to go into labor after attacking Obama? How does one get "caught in a contraction"? What does "Last week, the Obama said," mean? Oh, and Where in the world is Iram - I have heard of Iran and Iraq. Does anyone proof the political ticker sometimes I really have a hard time understanding what is being said.
I hope that this doesn't make it to the blog, I really enjoy reading but sometimes I have a difficult time understanding because of the lack of professional writing and proof reading.

She is such a joke…and I am sure more of this is too come.

I'm delighted CNN finally brought this up. I said this 2 weeks ago, but it was ignored.

Senator Obama was not asked a broad hypothetical. Check the AP transcript for yourselves. As CNN mentioned, the question was specific on using nuclear weapons against terror suspects in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Senator Clinton is a glaring hypocrite and in this case, she's looking for an escape route as always. Here's the transcript of her interview:

HUNT: Senator, you sit in the Armed Services Committee. There were reports this weekend, the "Washington Post" and elsewhere, that the United States is considering a military option against Iran if it won't relinquish any ambitions to nuclear weapons. The "New Yorker" even said that we're considering using nuclear – tactical nuclear weapons. Should those options be on the table when it comes to Iran?

CLINTON: Well, I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I [Hillary clinton] would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table. And this administration has been very willing to talk about using nuclear weapons in a way we haven't seen since the dawn of a nuclear age.

"In the April 2006 interview with Bloomberg Television, amid reports the administration may have been weighing a nuclear option in Iram"

spell check?

"Sorry, that was a mistake. She has Alzheimers so when she accused Senator Obama, she couldn't remember that she said the same thing last year" Was anyone hoping her campaign would say something like this? Forget it. She couldn't even say sorry for authorizing the biggest foreign policy disaster of our generation.

This is one of those cases where Americans would have to look at the facts and judge for themselves whether or not a potential president is persistently lieing to them and making no apologies even before she became president. Unlike Edwards and Dood, She made no apologies for authorizing a war that has caused hundreds of widows and orphans, billions of dollars and our reputation abroad (she blamed George Bush) and she arrogantly and unapollogetical said she would continue to take money from lobbyists. How sick can America get?

This is another example of the idiocy of Hillary Clinton. In her bid to attack Barack Obama's position and make him appear inexperienced, she has contradicted herself. How can someone so experienced be party to the most blatant foreign policy of recent times and her 'inexperienced' competitor was proved right at the end of the day? This woman is still going to do something very very stupid. I can almost feel it. She is programmed and coached. Her statements, actions and positions do not reflect that she can herald change or is even sincere in saying she represents change. Vote Barack Obama as President of the United States of America. Vote for Change.

This is double talk by the Clinton campaign to try to weasel out of an obvious contradiction. Clinton will say whatever she believes will serve her purpose at the time.

Now, can ANYONE trust a politician who is blatantly caught in a complete contradiction and then attempts to squeeze out of it like this?

Sounds a little like 'ole Slick Willy to me.

NOT going to fall for that one again are we?

This is exactly why I would not vote for Hillary Clinton! Whatever it takes to get your vote is what she will say, let alone all the baggage that she carries with her!

FINALLY!!!

caught in a contraction? the obama?

Is this poorest piece of written journalism on you site? I high school daughter could have done better. Doesn't anyone over there prrof read?

Wow. So what you say only matters in a presidential election? I think not. What you say before the presidential election is must more accurate of your views and opinions. Now she only says what the public wants to hear so she can win. This ought to be like NASCAR at this point.

Hillary Clinton flip-flopped again and again long time ago.
Remember, she wanted to talk to dictators few month ago. When Obama said the same thing, she was against it.
Here we go again, with the nuclear question.
She is the queen of soundbites. As a result, you will see contradictions after contradictions coming from her.

Remember Hillary Clinton said:
"LOBBYISTS REPRESENT "REAL" AMERICANS".
I honestly think that statement was unscripted and is a BIG gaffe.

Oh yeh right !!!

CNN Political Desk Manager Steve Brusk
"Clinton contradiction on nukes?"

Bizarre title for this article!

I think Steve Brusk should make a real investigation of different positions of Sen. Clinton then he will know for himself that she is flip flopping on almost every issue!
This primary in the democratic Party looks like Obama against ALL oter candidates
And CNN is actually not doing his Homework!

CNN your out of your mind!!!
How dare you say she is flip floping. Why can't people have a change of mind?

Apples and oranges?? Are you kidding?

I think it's irresponsible to take _anything_ off the table, including antipersonnel tactical nukes, when dealing with nutcase Islamic regimes.

"But was Clinton caught in a contraction after attacking Obama…."

It's bad enough that CNN would publish such pathetically strained, anti-Clinton propoganda. It's an indication of the level of intelligence involved in such obvious pandering that the writer can't even spell "contradiction."

You guys will never rise to the level of the great news services with garbage like this article.

J. Mark Lane
Larchmont, NY

typical clintonesque.. she will flip flop and say anything that anyone or cause needs to hear..that is the clinton mantra…nothing ever changes for the clintons,, this is a two party ticket right ?

Hillary Kerry-Clinton? Que?

Why is it that when Democrats change opinion it is "flip flopping" but when Republicans contradict old themselves (Mitt Romney on abortion, gay marriage, etc.) the press is silent?

Mrs. Bill Clinton is a democrat. You expect democrats to shift & blow like the winds.

OH MAN! Clinton contradicts herself? That can't be possible, which is what the Clinton campaign said, right? NO COMMENT.

Sounds like Hillary is an "empty suit"; there's really nothing solid on the inside. Waffles in the wind.