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Archive for the ‘HRC’ 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 [...]
November 16th, 2008
Category: HRC
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 [...]
June 27th, 2008
Category: Campaign 2008, HRC
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.
May 4th, 2008
Category: HRC
What do “obliterate Iran” and the gas tax holiday tell us about HRC’s character, the quality of her experience, and her fitness to be President?
May 4th, 2008
Category: HRC
HRC on Face the Nation, 2005:
Senator McCain made the point earlier today, which I agree with, and that is, it’s not so much a question of time when it comes to American military presence for the average American; I include myself in this. But it is a question of casualties.
We don’t want to see our young men and women dying and suffering these grievous injuries
that so many of them have. We’ve been in South Korea for 50-plus years. We’ve been in
Europe for 50-plus. We’re still in Okinawa with respect to protection there coming out of
World War II.
