In October 2006, Hillary called Bush's refusal to talk "unrealistic" [View All]

[BeyondGeography]

"At our best, Americans have always lived in a creative tension between idealism and realism; between our clear-eyed insistence on seeing the world as it actually is and our deeply-held desire to remake the world as it ought to be.

"This Administration has abandoned that tension for a simplistic division of the world into good and evil. They've refused to talk to anyone on the "evil" side. And some have called that idealistic; I call it dangerously unrealistic.

"At the end of the day, you have to question whether this administration has led with our values or used our values as a cloak to justify its ideology and unilateralism. Something is wrong when our pursuit of idealistic goals has turned a good portion of the world against us."

http://www.senate.gov/~clinton/news/statements/details.cfm?id=265807

Tactical mistake by Team Clinton here. They will focus on the itty-bitty "precondition" word, but she has already agreed to the concept of talking with anyone and everyone and her smearing of Obama as naive is an obvious invitation to re-open her great weakness, IWR.