Posted on 08/11/2014 5:25:19 AM PDT by McGruff
White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes is now publicly responding to criticism from Hillary Clinton of Barack Obama's foreign policy. "On the broad thrust of our foreign policy, she was fully on board," Rhodes tells Politico.
Hillary Clinton did a recent interview where she was seen to have been bashing elements of Obama's foreign policy.
President Obama has long ridiculed the idea that the U.S., early in the Syrian civil war, could have shaped the forces fighting the Assad regime, thereby stopping al Qaeda-inspired groups—like the one rampaging across Syria and Iraq today—from seizing control of the rebellion. In an interview in February, the president told me that “when you have a professional army ... fighting against a farmer, a carpenter, an engineer who started out as protesters and suddenly now see themselves in the midst of a civil conflict—the notion that we could have, in a clean way that didn’t commit U.S. military forces, changed the equation on the ground there was never true.”
Well, his former secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton, isn’t buying it. In an interview with me earlier this week, she used her sharpest language yet to describe the "failure" that resulted from the decision to keep the U.S. on the sidelines during the first phase of the Syrian uprising.
Of course, Clinton had many kind words for the “incredibly intelligent” and “thoughtful” Obama, and she expressed sympathy and understanding for the devilishly complicated challenges he faces. But she also suggested that she finds his approach to foreign policy overly cautious, and she made the case that America needs a leader who believes that the country, despite its various missteps, is an indispensable force for good. At one point, I mentioned the slogan President Obama recently coined to describe his foreign-policy doctrine: “Don’t do stupid shit” (an expression often rendered as “Don’t do stupid stuff” in less-than-private encounters).
This is what Clinton said about Obama’s slogan: “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.”
Rhodes tells Politico that Clinton and Obama are close, and that they try not to surprise each other.
“We have been able to have a no-surprises culture, and that is rooted in the fact that we have very deep personal relationships,” said Ben Rhodes, Obama’s deputy national security adviser. “She is going to do what she is going to do, and she is going to say what she is going to say, but generally the lines of communication are such that there are no surprises on the big issues that come up.” ...
The Clinton camp also shared a draft of her book with Rhodes before the publication.
“The goal wasn’t to give anyone a veto,” said one associate familiar with the book-writing process. “It was to have a no-surprises policy.”
“It would have been strange if she wrote a book in which she agreed with every single thing we did,” Politico reported Rhodes as saying. “On the broad thrust of our foreign policy, she was fully on board. There are also going to be places where she is going to have differences.”
Obama is not even Junior Varsity. What a putz.
Hillary determines policy, and history, by putting one finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
Getting it all out now so it will be old news in a couple of years is all this is.
Does anyone actually think that most sheeple will remember any of this back and forth going on now come election time other than political junkies?
Politics as usual, where paid consultants do nothing but spend 18 hours a day micro managing their bosses image for game day in November.
Remember Hillary’s pretty and pink show with Billious way back when? She apparently still thinks that works but somehow the Beer Goggles just take the shine off of it. Miss Manners says this is the definition of “frump.”
I didn’t know donkey’s ate their own.
I took a nasty spill once.
There is nothing funny about falling.
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Oh, I LOVE that picture of her!
Reminds me of Charlie the Tuna.
Who ever is the repub running against hillary should run that clip in every ad.
Oh this is rich. Hillary's actual "career" is nothing BUT moronic capers derived from adolescent fantasies and OCD bitterness, leaving nothing but wreckage behind her for thirty years, and continuing in full screaching insanity to this very day. Stupid is literally written in her DNA.
Everything collapsed the day this narcissistic idiot found her first NLP book. I can just see her one-watt light bulb come on as she sat up in excitement and said, "wow, words are anything I want them to be - they don't actually stand for anything!"
How much misery has flowed from that terrible moment, engulfing the entire world in the flames of her madness, as she's followed by her sea of rats all biting each other as they fight for a scrap from her table.
She was on board, is no better than Obama, they both celebrate abortion/homosexuality and a wide variety of anti Christian values.
They both spit on Jesus
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