Only now, two and a half years after her horrifying tenure as Commissar of State ended, is Mrs. Clinton deigning to "start formulating" a defense of that abysmal record.
Only now.
Either because she heretofore thought that record was self-evidently awesome, or because she just didn't think she needed to, in her Marie Antoinette-esqe way.
So you know what this means, right? Time for some more history revisioning:
She is less inclined to focus on any specific achievement than to weave her time at Foggy Bottom into a larger narrative about her experience and toughness.
Because she hasn't any "achievements," other than embarrassments and foreign policy-wrecking disasters.
“I’ve stood up to adversaries like [Russia President Vladimir] Putin....
....and reinforced allies like Israel”....
Her left hand had a knife she was sliding between Bibi's hexiribs, in case you weren't looking very closely.
....she said in her speech on Saturday at Roosevelt Island in New York City. “I was in the Situation Room on the day we got [Osama] bin Laden.”
Oh, yeah, she was in there, alright. But for all her relevance to it, she might as well have been bringing O and Leon Panetta their coffee. She didn't have anything to do with killing OBL; SEAL Team Six did that. She didn't have any military responsibilities - that was the purview of DOD. Nor did she have any oversight or management of intelligence activities. Even Barack Obama has more of a claim to getting bin Laden than the Empress.
She's not a warrior, she's not "tough," she's not "experienced," other than in screwing things up and leeching the electability of others. Her "record" is so terrible, she doesn't even have enough spin material to work with to make anything up:
The general nature of those remarks points to a potential vulnerability for [Mrs.] Clinton. Her critics argue that she achieved little of substance as secretary of State. And they expand that critique to suggest that her public life more broadly has been marked by talk over action.
Making her the perfect Democrat Commissar of State - and unsuited for any other role.
Captain Ed sums up her true record:
In the four years of Hillary’s term as Secretary of State, the U.S. retreated from missile defense in eastern Europe and practically handed over American policy on Syria to Moscow. Obama and Hillary became so obsessed with nuclear-weapons reductions as some sort of credibility issue in dealing with Iran that they turned a blind eye to Putin’s neo-imperialism. And of course on that point, they blamed George Bush — which was the impetus for the craven “reset button” idiocy that started Hillary’s career at State.
And Israel? Ask the Israelis how they view the policy of the Obama-Hillary years, especially their decision to make housing expansion in Jerusalem a flash point with the Palestinians. The U.S. thumbed their noses at the Netanyahu administration, only to get rebuked when the Israelis decided that Netanyahu had the better part of the argument.
In both of those cases, Hillary was more than just “in the room.” Those foreign-policy decisions are part of her record, too. And that doesn’t even include Hillary’s war on Moammar Qaddafi and the transformation of Libya into a failed state teeming with terror networks. That’s why Team Hillary would prefer not to talk about it at all.
Some chicken crap, in other words, just can't be turned into chicken salad. Just as Hill cannot be turned into Bill.
I wonder if, when it's all said and done, she'll be able to live with that.
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