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Archive for the ‘Hillary Rodham Clinton’ Category
December 23rd, 2008
As Mark observes, it’s a good thing that Hillary Clinton has appointed Jack Lew as budget director within the State Department. Two other things emerge from the NYT piece, one good, one bad: 1) Clinton seems to want to get State more involved in international economic affairs. This is good. Matt Yglesias is worried about [...]
November 16th, 2008
Category: Hillary Rodham Clinton
I am not at all sure that I understand Obama’s reasoning in considering HRC for Secretary of State, but my gut tells me that we may be seeing an instance where politicians get in trouble through the misplaced use of historical analogy, in this case the “team of rivals.” Abraham Lincoln really had to have [...]
August 26th, 2008
Category: Hillary Rodham Clinton
There was lots of good stuff in Clinton’s speech, and then there was this: I want you to ask yourselves: Were you in this campaign just for me, or were you in it for that young Marine and others like him? Were you in it for that mom struggling with cancer while raising her kids? [...]
June 27th, 2008
Category: Hillary Rodham Clinton
She’s asking for money to pay the vendors, but she’s walking away from the $12 million of her own money the campaign borrowed from her.
