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She is screaming Obama because she wants his supporters. She wants to run on his success and she is saying she was the one who advises him on all of those successes.
So now that the Post has a couple copies of Clinton's yet-to-be-released book, "Hard Choices," where and how does Clinton distance herself from President Obama? And why?
In fact, Clinton details a number of foreign policy differences with Obama and other top White House aides. And perhaps not surprisingly, these differences tend to be on issues that either (1) didn't go as the White House had hoped, and/or (2) continue to be quite volatile.
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Below, we recap the key differences, as laid out by Clinton, and tell you what it means politically...
1. Mubarak's ouster in Egypt
Clinton says she wanted to push for an orderly transition from power for then-Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak -- whom she had known for a long time -- but the Obama administration instead called for him to step down amid Arab Spring protests.
Clinton says the younger generation of White House aides got "swept up in the drama and idealism of the moment."
"His Egypt served as a linchpin of peace in a volatile region," she writes. "Were we really ready to walk away from that relationship after thirty years of cooperation?"
The upshot: Things in Egypt have continued to spiral toward chaos, with the Muslim Brotherhood taking over after Mubarak left and then a military coup. For Clinton, it's helpful to be able to highlight how she would have done things differently.
2. Israeli settlements freeze
Clinton says that she differed with Obama on his push for a 2009 freeze on the construction of new Israeli settlements in disputed regions. Clinton suggests she wouldn't have adopted such a hard-line stance and says that it increased tensions between the two sides.
"I was worried that we would be locking ourselves into a confrontation we didn't need," she writes.
Still, she says she toed the line as a loyal Cabinet secretary. "So that spring I delivered the President's message as forcefully as I could, then tried to contain the consequences when both sides reacted badly," Clinton writes.
The upshot: Obama's occasionally rocky relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is no secret. This sounds like Clinton saying she's a little less likely to rock the boat with the United States' top ally in the region.
3. Afghanistan surge deadline
While Clinton was a supporter of Obama's troop surge in Afghanistan, which was announced in 2009, she said Obama instituted something she wasn't so comfortable with: An 18-month deadline for starting to bring those troops home.
Clinton says the cutoff was "a starker deadline than I had hoped for, and I worried that it might send the wrong signal to friend and foe alike."
"Although I strongly believed in the need for a time-bound surge and a speedy transition, I thought there was a benefit to playing our cards closer to our chests," Clinton writes. "However, with the pace of withdrawal unspecified, there was enough flexibility to get the job done.”
The upshot: Again, this is Clinton sounding more like a pragmatic foreign policy voice rather than an idealist. It fits pretty neatly with her differences with Obama on Egypt and Israel. Also worth noting: It's not that surprising that Clinton opposed a deadline, considering she was also hesitant about instituting a deadline for withdrawal from Iraq -- until 2007.
4. Putin
Clinton definitely casts herself as tougher with Vladimir Putin than some in the White House, including Obama. She says she warned about tough times ahead with the Russian president when she departed as secretary of state in 2013.
"Strength and resolve were the only language Putin would understand," she writes. "We should send him a message that his actions have consequence while reassuring our allies that the United States will stand up for them."
Clinton adds (without naming names): "Not everyone at the White House agreed with my relatively harsh analysis."
The upshot: The unrest in Eastern Europe over Russia's incursion into Ukraine is perhaps the preeminent foreign policy issue today. Clinton suggests here that she saw what was coming, and she's well-positioned to deal with it going forward because she recognized Putin for what he is.
5. Arming Syrian rebels
Clinton says she entertained the idea of arming a carefully vetted group of moderate Syrian rebels in that nation's conflict, acknowledging that such things are always dicey and risk helping extremists, but arguing that it could have been done right.
Clinton calls this "the least bad option" available in that country, but that Obama decided to go a different direction.
"No one likes to lost a debate, including me," Clinton writes. "But this was the President's call and I respected his deliberations and decision."
The upshot: After evidence emerged that Syria used chemical weapons on its people, Obama asked Congress for a use-of-force resolution to conduct a limited military strike. Congress wasn't on-board, and he was clearly about to get rebuffed before Syria agreed to hand over its chemical weapons. The White House's "red line" strategy on Syria is certainly not one of its finer moments -- too put it lightly -- and Clinton lays out her alternative here.
6. Iraq war vote
This was obviously the big one in 2008, with Clinton having voted for the use of force in Iraq and Obama having spoken out against the war in its early days. It's pretty much what gave Obama the opening he needed to pull the upset.
In the years since, of course, their positions on this issue have merged somewhat. And in her new book, Clinton reiterates that she cast the wrong vote, saying, "I still got it wrong. Plain and simple."
The upshot: Unless she faces a tough primary or a more non-interventionist Republican like Rand Paul, Clinton's Iraq position probably isn't much of an issue in the 2016 campaign. This strikes us as her checking a box on one of her "hard choices" that would have been too conspicuous had it not been mentioned.
Yeah, but his wife sides Hilary. I feel like I'm in the Sunni/Shia war all over again.
I hope trump gets in their. That's who we need. All this liberal shit gotta go. I would rather have somebody in office who I knows hate me instead of some democrat who pretends while fucking me up at the same time.
Obama, Clintons, sanders are no good for negroes. They've proven this. It's gonna be the same shit. You think these liberal politicians backing you while u getting fucked up.
U thought cause Clinton went into the black churches, smoked weed, and played the sax he was cool but yet yo ass got locked up more under his administration than bush and Reagan combined.
At least with trump I know what I'm dealing with. People says he won't be president but I believe he will.
Obama, Clintons, sanders are no good for negroes. They've proven this. It's gonna be the same shit. You think these liberal politicians backing you while u getting fucked up.
U thought cause Clinton went into the black churches, smoked weed, and played the sax he was cool but yet yo ass got locked up more under his administration than bush and Reagan combined.
At least with trump I know what I'm dealing with. People says he won't be president but I believe he will.
I bet you shuffle your feet when you walk and don't look the good white folks in the eye .
No but you looking for whites to baby and take care of your big black ass. Grow up and be a damn man. Every four years you niggaz talk about which white slavemaster is gonna be a better daddy. Damn that, get your own shit. Create your own economy and businesses and stop looking for whites to take care of your ass.I bet you shuffle your feet when you walk and don't look the good white folks in the eye .
while you extolling the virtues of a Trump in office .......
got nothing to do with being daddy but you ain't living on no island so stop acting like legislation and policy don't affect you.
and all that don't like you shit is simple talk . ain't nobody looking to make a friend so who gives a fuck if they like you or not. ?
you been a damn dummy the whole time your James Evans collection ass been on here
Pretty much
I can't vote for no bitch
This is the most coontastic post I've ever read on bgol. Seriously
Man, fuck all these rich politicians.
Black people of been got behind a brother who's a teacher in the community, maybe a sister who is a lawyer trying to keep fellow brethren out of jail for petty crimes, or maybe even the brother who worked for the power company for the last 20 years and run him or her as president.
Fuck a rich politician.
Black people of been got behind a brother who's a teacher in the community, maybe a sister who is a lawyer trying to keep fellow brethren out of jail for petty crimes, or maybe even the brother who worked for the power company for the last 20 years and run him or her as president.
Fuck a rich politician.
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You, my Brotha, are AWAKE!
We need more AWAKE brethren for 2016