Hillary Clinton Faults Obama for ‘Stupid Stuff’ Policy Hillary Clinton is taking on President Barack Obama with the same issue he used against her in the 2008 Democratic primary: foreign policy vision. Obama lacks a specific doctrine, according to an Atlantic magazine interview with Clinton, the unannounced presidential candidate who is leading Democrats and Republicans in 2016 polling. “Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Clinton told the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg, also a Bloomberg View columnist, in reference to the way Obama and his aides describe his approach to foreign policy. That’s a “political message” and “not his world view,” she said. Clinton’s effort to show differences with Obama, which began with the release of her book in June, reflects a new political reality. The hard-line policies that hurt her with a war-weary Democratic base in 2008 aren’t as significant now that polls show the party is unified behind her. It also has become necessary for Clinton, Obama’s first secretary of state, to draw contrasts as his approval ratings have cratered. Thirty-six percent of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of foreign policy, and 48 percent disapprove, according to a CBS News poll conducted July 29 to Aug. 4. Testimony Reversal [...] ilinnews/hillary-clinton-faults-obama-for-stupid-stuff-policy/
Posted on: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 04:01:38 +0000
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