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The Generals' Revolt

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:07:22 -0800

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Bill's Back in Business

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Joe Conason - Sep. 22 (Opinion) - Enter the recipients' email addresses, separated by commas: Your email has been sent. Alex Wong / AP Photo Mocking the predictions that he’d be sidelined or prove an irritant to his wife, the former president has his mojo back and is kicking off

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Free Speech and ‘Hillary: The Movie’

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - Sep. 09 (Interview) - Does the application of campaign finance laws to “Hillary: The Movie” violate free speech rights? What are the implications for electoral politics if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Citizens United?

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Afghanistan, Iraq and the Clintons

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Worldfocus - By Martin Savidge, Gideon Rose, Carla Robbins - Aug. 14 (Interview) - Week in review: Gideon Rose of Foreign Affairs magazine and Carla Robbins of The New York Times discuss the week’s top stories: A major U.S. offensive as national elections approach in Afghanistan, a surge in suicide bombings in Iraq and Hillary Clinton's trip to Africa.

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Hillary Clinton demands accountability for war crimes

Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Salon - By Glenn Greenwald - Aug. 05 (Opinion) - As we send murderous, crusading civilian units around the world to accompany our invading armies -- while ushering a regime of torture wherever we go -- and then announce we will only Look to the Future, Not the Past, when their crimes are exposed (despite our best efforts to keep them concealed), do we actually expect anyone to take these sermons seriously?

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Rising Costs

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Republic - By Jonathan Cohn - Jun. 30 (Opinion) - Notwithstanding the predictable fits-and-starts of the legislative process, it seems likely that Obama will have a bill to sign by year's end, thereby accomplishing what the Clintons famously could not. But then what? Having crafted a bill that can pass Congress, will Obama be signing a bill that people actually like? It's a question best answered by examining another episode of the past--one that, although a mere footnote in political history, is fraught with warnings for today's reformers.

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Hillary's New Crusade

Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Daily Beast - By Michelle Goldberg - Jun. 07 (Opinion) - A year ago today, Hillary Clinton ended her presidential campaign—to the relief of many. But even her critics must admit that as secretary of State, she’s been a feminist hero to behold. One year ago today, Hillary Clinton ended her presidential campaign, much to the relief of millions of ardent Barack Obama supporters like me. Throughout the primaries, I had been irritated and then outraged by those who argued feminism obliged women to back her. The possibility that our first female president would be a former first lady promising to continue her husband’s legacy struck me as profoundly dispiriting. During the campaign, her hardball tactics horrified me. So when she made her rousing and gracious speech in the National Building Museum, conceding defeat but celebrating "18 million cracks" in "that highest, hardest glass ceiling," I was too furious to really hear her.

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Clintons’ gooey bliss confounds the cynics

Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Times - By Tony Allen-Mills - Apr. 26 (Opinion) - Spring was in the air in New York and Bill and Hillary Clinton were out on the town with Chelsea, their daughter. At the Café Carlyle, the New York Post reported solemnly, they sat “holding hands” while listening to the cabaret. A few days later the Clintons were in Washington. This time they were seen walking hand-in-hand down MacArthur Boulevard after an intimate dinner at a popular restaurant.

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Secretary Clinton's safety dance

Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0800

The Politico - By David S. Cloud - Mar. 08 (Opinion) - The way to think about what kind of secretary of state Hillary Clinton will be is to remember what she did after coming to the Senate eight years ago. While some of her new colleagues feared the former First Lady would be a dilettante who disdained legislating, she surprised them by plunging into the details of the job and gradually earned a reputation as one of the Senate's most substantive members. She displayed the same style in her weeklong trip to the Middle East and Europe this week, and it was a sharp contrast to her approach on her maiden trip as secretary to Asia in February, where she made headlines with frank and sometimes jarring comments playing down the importance of human rights in the U.S.-China relationship and speculating about a possible succession struggle in North Korea.

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Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton's Trip To Asia

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Council on Foreign Relations - By Paul B. Stares - Feb. 18 (Interview) - he Japanese are clearly very happy that Secretary Clinton is beginning with her Asia trip with Japan. And they clearly are reassured that Japan still counts in Washington's calculus. Tell us what are the leading sort of issues that she's going to be bringing up with the Japanese and what she's looking to hear from them.

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Mrs. Clinton Goes to Asia

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

National Review - By Dan Blumenthal - Feb. 16 (Opinion) - In fashioning her Asia policy, Secretary Clinton has a chance to make a clean break with her predecessors, who tended to view every Asian challenge in isolation. The United States can begin to view Asia as a whole, with interconnected problems and multilateral solutions.

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5 secretaries of State advise Hillary Clinton

Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Los Angeles Times - By Marjorie Miller - Dec. 07 (Opinion) - Hillary Rodham Clinton will have no shortage of issues to take on as secretary of State. She steps into the job amid a global economic meltdown and wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. On top of that, she must address the rising tensions between India and Pakistan, and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while managing complex relations with Russia and China. And there are the perennial issues of hunger and disease in Africa, drugs in Latin America and the nuclear threat worldwide. How can one person manage it all? Times editorial writer Marjorie Miller asked five former secretaries of State what advice they had for Clinton in her new job. What follows are edited transcripts of their counsel.

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What's Behind Barack Obama's Consideration of Hillary Clinton for Secretary of State?

Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New York Magazine - By John Heilemann - Nov. 22 (Opinion) - So it appears that we’re about to embark on a new chapter in the Obama-Clinton saga. Motivating the characters is a blend of cold-eyed calculation and gauzy idealism; selfishness and selflessness; the good, the bad, and the ugly—all the stuff that’s made the drama in which they have co-starred as operatic, twisted, and riveting as any in modern political history.

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Obama: Don't Hire Hillary

Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Huffington Post - By Patricia DeGennaro - Nov. 20 (Opinion) - As a professor of global affairs and an international security advisor to both the U.S. military and President of Afghanistan, I do not agree with the masses - again. Appointing Senator Clinton is a bad idea. If the President-elect is truly for change he needs someone who supports that and so far Clinton has held true to business as usual.

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HRC for Secretary of State?

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

3BlueDudes - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - The political world has been roiling with news that Senator Hillary Clinton [D-NY] is likely to be offered the plum job of Secretary of State in an Obama administration and the further news that she is almost certain to accept the offer. Apart from setting off what is likely to be an unseemly scramble for her Senate seat, what does this mean, if it happens?

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Appointing Hillary secretary of state would be so un-Clintonian

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Seattle Post Intelligencer - By Maureen Dowd - Nov. 18 (Opinion) - There are Obama aides and supporters who are upset that The One who won on change has ushered in deja vu all over again. The man who vowed to deliver us from 28 years of Bushes and Clintons has been stocking up on Clintonites. How, one may ask, can he put Hillary -- who voted to authorize the Iraq war without even reading the intelligence assessment -- in charge of patching up a foreign policy and a world riven by that war?

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The Test

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New Yorker - By Steve Coll - Nov. 03 (Opinion) - The campaign of 2008 was notable for its misleading narratives about how Presidents are tested. From the wacky competition over 3 A.M. phone calls to McCain’s alleged campaign suspension, it was suggested repeatedly that Presidents are best measured by their day-to-day crisis-management skills. Of course, sound judgment under pressure is essential to a successful Presidency, and its absence can prove disastrous (see Bush, post-Afghanistan; see Bush, post-Katrina). Coolheadedness on its own is sometimes enough to earn lasting gratitude (see Kennedy, Cuban missile crisis). Yet, great Presidencies can arise only from great causes. To define them and deliver on them is the truer test of the officeholder.

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Hillary Made Obama a Better Candidate

Fri, 17 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Lanny J. Davis - Oct. 17 (Opinion) - The anti-Hillary Clinton pundits were sounding the theme a few months ago that by staying in the presidential race through June 3, the former first lady was a divisive force that would irreparably harm Barack Obama's chances of capturing the White House. But now Mrs. Clinton's decision to stay in the race until the last primary has been vindicated. Mr. Obama is a stronger candidate today thanks to Mrs. Clinton's pursuit of the Democratic nomination. And, far from being polarizing, she has helped bring the party together more than at any time in recent memory.

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The Real '08 Fight: Clinton v. Palin?

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Patrick Healy - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - The question is, will Mrs. Clinton fight Ms. Palin to help her former rival, Mr. Obama? Clinton advisers say that Mrs. Clinton wants to do everything she can to elect Mr. Obama, so that she cannot be blamed if he loses -- yet she also does not want to be too closely associated with him if he does lose, nor to tarnish her own image by taking on a rookie national politician like Ms. Palin and possibly coming up short.

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Day 2 Snapshots

Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Talking Points Memo - By David Kurtz - Aug. 27 (Opinion) - The truth is that when you're at an event like the Democratic Convention, it's almost impossible to have a bird's eye view of everything going on. We recap some of what we saw and heard Tuesday in Denver

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Dignity And Respect -- Except for Hillary

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Jon Raymond - Aug. 26 (Opinion) - * Share * Print View * Comments Michelle Obama spoke on Monday about how "....you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them, and even if you don't agree with them." Is that the same kind of respect that Obama supporters show for Hillary supporters when they yell obscenities at them in the streets of Denver?

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Confessions of a Convention Junkie

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Nation - By Victor Navasky - Aug. 25 (Opinion) - Although rallies and counter-convention panels and protests and marches (including one by a group called "Recreate Sixty Eight") are scheduled, my own suspicion is that this time around, the closest thing to serious protest action at the Denver convention itself, will come, if at all, from the Hillary camp.

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Summer Love, Fall Freak

Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Rebecca Curtis - Aug. 20 (Opinion) - In fact, Obama's already experienced the Bradley Effect. He was expected to win New Hampshire--a bellwether state--by 13 points. He lost by 3. Several polls had him winning liberal California by 13 points; he lost it by 10. Obama suffered upsets in Rhode Island, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and more.

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Janet Ritz: Older, Unhappy Women As Swing Voters

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Janet Ritz - Aug. 07 (Opinion) - The AARP's Divided We Fail initiative released a survey today of swing voters in battleground states, those identified as older, lower income, mostly white women, who said their decision would be based, primarily, upon the economy. Not a surprise, considering the state of same, but one that bears further scrutiny following another survey; this one reported by USA Today and ABC news, which stated that older women were unhappier than their male counterparts.

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Mr. Darcy Comes Courting

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 07:35:00 -0700

New York Times - By Maureen Dowd - Aug. 03 (Opinion) - It is a truth universally acknowledged that Barack Obama must continue to grovel to Hillary Clinton's dead-enders, some of whom mutter darkly that they will not only not vote for him, they will never vote for a man again. Obama met for an hour Tuesday with three dozen top Hillaryites at a hotel here, seeking their endorsement and beguiling their begrudging. He opened the session by saying that he knew there had been frustration about what they saw as sexism during the primary. The Los Angeles Times reported that Hillary die-hards want to enshrine a whine in the Democratic platform about how the primaries "exposed pervasive gender bias in the media" and call on party leaders to take "immediate and public steps" to denounce any perceived bias in the future. That is one nutty idea. Perhaps it is because feminists are still so busy cataloging past slights to Hillary that they have failed to mount a vivid defense of Michelle Obama, who has taken over from Hillary as the one conservatives like to paint as a harridan.

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