Posted on 06/10/2014 6:16:05 AM PDT by maggief
To hear Hillary Clinton, the former secretary of state and once and maybe future Democratic presidential candidate tell it, her new book "Hard Choices" isn't the kickoff to a 2016 campaign.
She still hasn't made up her mind about another run for the presidency, she told Renee Montagne, co-host of NPR's Morning Edition. It's more a review of the decisions she made as the nation's top diplomat.
That the book looks backwards is proof, she said, that it's not a campaign document because, echoing a often used line of her husband, former President Bill Clinton, "I'm experienced enough to know that political campaigns are about the future, not the past."
But she acknowledged that the book tour gives her a chance "to work really hard to get out around the country to talk about what's on people's minds." In short, it sounds like she's embarking on another listening tour of the kind she used to launch her career in electoral politics in 1999 before she ran for a U.S. Senate seat from New York.
In any event, a review of her years traveling the globe as secretary of state during President Obama's first term gives her the chance to define her accomplishments even as her Republican critics ask, "What achievements?"
Here are some interview highlights:
Her accomplishments: To hear Clinton tell it, she helped rebuild the U.S. image in the world after the George W. Bush administration badly mangled it.
"The most important thing I did was to help restore America's leadership in the world. And I think that was a very important accomplishment. We were flat on our back when I walked in there the first time.
(Excerpt) Read more at npr.org ...
Rrestored to what? We are no longer the shining city on the hill.
Can you stomach the thought of seeing THAT coming down the steps from AF1 for four (and prayerfully NOT eight) years?
Is this satire?
The higher ups don’t want to deal with the Clintons and the baggage they bring with them. Don’t be shocked if you see some other high profile Dems like Andrew Cuomo and Senator Pocohontas Warren getting more media coverage soon.
She hit her head again on a bottle of Jack Daniels.
What a sick, demented woman....
That’s all we need is another homosexual in office.
huma wrecked
AHHHHH why didn’t it go the other way !?
Damn!
That headline made me laugh outloud!! The guy in the stall next to me probably thinks he’s sitting next to a nut.
Remember Benghazi!
Lol——good one.
Wanna take a good look at Iraq today, Hillary?
The people buying her books are corporations and crony capitalists who owe her for all that State Department spending. They’ll buy crates of her books at full price and use them to heat their homes and factories.
What did you think of that division of labor video?
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