ORLANDO, Fla. — Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina railed against President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Saturday, claiming the two Democrats make her “angry” for myriad reasons.
“Like all of you, I am angry,” the female GOP hopeful told Florida Republicans at the 2015 Sunshine Summit.
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“I am profoundly disappointed that our own president cannot bring himself to speak with the same clarity of purpose as do [French] President Francois Hollande and [British] Prime Minister David Cameron,” Fiorina said in her reaction to Obama’s response to the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night.
“[I am] angry that just yesterday morning, hours before the Paris attacks began and against all the evidence, President Obama declared ISIS ‘contained’ and took a victory lap,” she noted, adding, “they are not a JV team, Mr. President. They are not contained. They are at our shores and their measure of victory is the body count.”
Fiorina continued, turning her attention to Clinton. “I am angry that Hillary Clinton dares to ask ‘what difference does it make’ how four Americans died in Benghazi. And then she tells us that we must empathize with our enemies.
“Mrs. Clinton, when the United States does not answer a purposeful terrorist attack on our embassy with a purposeful and powerful response, but instead blames a video, you invite more terrorism and bloodshed,” Fiorina said, earning thunderous applause.
The former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard told voters she is also angered by Obama and Clinton’s declaration of “victory in Iraq in 2011” where, she claims, they “abandoned all our hard-won gains for political expediency” and left “vast swaths of territory and too much weaponry to be gobbled up by ISIS.”
“I am angry that President Obama unilaterally decides that we’ll accept up to 100,000 Syrian refugees while his administration admits we cannot determine their ties to terrorism,” Fiorina added.
“Mostly I am outraged because the murder, mayhem, danger and tragedy we see unfolding in Paris, throughout the Middle East and too often in our own homeland, are the direct consequence of this administration’s policies. You cannot lead from behind,” she said.
Fiorina holds the No. 6 spot in the Washington Examiner’s presidential power rankings. She was the last of 12 Republican candidates to speak at the two-day gathering of GOP voters in Florida.
