Word: clintonism
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...last Democratic President, Bill Clinton, put into law an assault-weapons ban in 1994. President George W. Bush allowed that ban to expire, but last month Obama's Attorney General, Eric Holder, said the Administration wanted to reinstate Clinton's ban. "The gun culture is hypersensitive," says Miles Hall, an Oklahoma City gun-shop owner. "If someone sneezes in Washington, we hear it and get nervous. There's a lot of anxiety out there...
...convenient and long-standing tradition in Mexico to blame its problems on the U.S.--and one that's now finding agreement from surprising quarters. "Our insatiable demand for illegal drugs fuels the drug trade," declared U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton en route to Mexico on March 25. "Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border ... causes the deaths of police officers, soldiers and civilians." Mexico has seen more than 7,000 drug-related killings since early 2008, and the violence now threatening to spill north hasn't escaped attention. Late last year, somewhat hyperbolically...
...Clinton's trip is the first step in solving the U.S. side of the equation. She took with her a plan to put more than 500 new federal agents in border states, cut off arms-smuggling into Mexico and lasso more of the billions of dollars heading back to drug cartels. Meanwhile, the Merida Initiative, a bilateral plan that began last year, is supposed to funnel almost $1.5 billion to Mexican President Felipe Calderón's offensive against the cartels...
...Administration has stopped using the phrase, and I think that speaks for itself. Obviously.' U.S. Secretary of State HILLARY CLINTON, saying she hadn't received a directive to stop using war on terror--it's "just not being used...
...minutes, a statement condemning the actions was released. A few hours later, Gibbs was briefing reporters, saying that Obama had already spoken with Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Gen. James Cartwright, the vice chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already been dispatched to arrange an afternoon Security Council meeting to condemn the action...