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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Hillary's deep foreign policy experience [View all]Divernan
(15,480 posts)32. "There Was Never Any Room For Hillary In Obama's Inner Circle"
Last edited Sat Jan 9, 2016, 06:37 PM - Edit history (2)
I think she had very little interaction" with the president, says veteran State Department employee. "A lot of this was, you know, she would go to meetings of the NSC (national security council) when she was in town and called, but it was a very distant relationship."
The NSC sidelined Clinton at every turnas it did other cabinet secretaries from Gates to his successors at the Pentagon, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel. "They would send (the defense secretary) to someplace like Botswana while they crafted North Korea policy at the White House," one former Defense Department official says.
"Obama brought her into the administration, put her in a bubble, and ignored her," says a former high-ranking diplomat. "It turned out to be a brilliant political maneuver by Obama, making it impossible for her to challenge him, unless she left the administration, and not giving her an excuse that she could resign in protest. So she was stuck."
Once she realized she would never really be a major player in Obamaland, Hillary Clinton did what she always did: adjusted her course. "She kept her head down on large issues," says a former Obama administration official. "She did a nice job of tamping down any tension between her and the White House." And she focused on her own future. With Clinton taking to the skies and traveling the world, her post at the State Department became a platform for the United States and Hillary Clinton.
http://www.businessinsider.com/no-room-for-hillary-in-obamas-inner-circle-2014-12
In this excerpt from Clinton, Inc: The Audacious Rebuilding Of A Political Machine, Daniel Halper, a political writer and online editor at The Weekly Standard, compiles candid interviews with former Clinton administration aides, friends, and enemies to reveal the hardened relationship between Hillary Clinton and President Obama.
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Creative excess. A romantic extreme, not a logical matter, like so much else in how we choose.
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#78
Openings, connections, great new day meeting folks of like mind. Go, Bernie Go!
highprincipleswork
Jan 2016
#84
EXCELLENT POST! I have Been Saying Incompetence, Poor Judgement, Poor Demonstrated Performance
CorporatistNation
Jan 2016
#93
You $hould check $ander$ $upport of the military indu$trial complex over the year$.
George II
Jan 2016
#29
It's Bernie talking about potential long term repercussions of the 1st and 2nd Iraq War
HerbChestnut
Jan 2016
#9
Two pilots: one who has yet to solo, and one who has made smoking holes in the ground, killing many.
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#14
LOL! Libya, and Syria are some of the largest smokin' holes known to humankind!
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#70
I believe taking out a ruthless brutal dictator is something to cheer and be proud of.
DCBob
Jan 2016
#83
"The mess that followed ..." is the PERFECT example of a fucked up and skewed view of Foreign Policy
cherokeeprogressive
Jan 2016
#90
Did she laugh when it was reported "we" killed Gaddafi's g'children too?
bread_and_roses
Jan 2016
#113
It's absurd to blame the sitting Secretary of State for the positions she took`
Fawke Em
Jan 2016
#116
Last weekend he was asked a foreign policy question on CNN and he started talking about....
George II
Jan 2016
#31
The question had to do with the situation in the middle east, his answer was way off track.
George II
Jan 2016
#56
The Pentagon recognizes the impact climate change will have on foreign policy, are studying
Ikonoklast
Jan 2016
#125
Can anyone imagine a no fly zone in Syria, what happens if the Russians violate it
Uncle Joe
Jan 2016
#10
Sanders, Nov. 14: "leading the world this country will rid our planet of ... ISIS."
ucrdem
Jan 2016
#20
By voting against the Brady Bill Five times ?! No, Sanders puts down his stone in that category too
uponit7771
Jan 2016
#85
If voting for the war in Iraq without bothering to read the N.I.E. is "experience"
raindaddy
Jan 2016
#43
There's a big difference between voting for the attack of another country without bothering to read
raindaddy
Jan 2016
#66
She's been making bad decisions for years. I really do question her judgement.
reformist2
Jan 2016
#12
Nothing in the link says that Kerry favors a no fly zone,not to mention the article is from October
karynnj
Jan 2016
#75
Yes. That also goes for Biden in a Dem primary and anyone else who voted for the IWR.
Martin Eden
Jan 2016
#106
And as SOS she was discussing the TPP with other heads of state and didn't know enough about it...
cascadiance
Jan 2016
#61
When I saw the title of the thread I almost laughed out a lung or two!
Elmer S. E. Dump
Jan 2016
#64
From just what I read here, Hillary is getting very close to being a War Criminal
andrewv1
Jan 2016
#103
Kinda like John Dillinger bragging about his deep experience in banking.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jan 2016
#107
Hillary would continue the same belligerent foreign policy that has persisted
Maedhros
Jan 2016
#117