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Is The World Heading Towards World War 3? says Paul Craig Roberts – Video


Is The World Heading Towards World War 3? says Paul Craig Roberts
Is The World Heading Towards World War 3? says Paul Craig Roberts. WW3 - Paul Craig Roberts: Hillary Clinton Will Lead Us To World War 3 Gerald Celente on Economic Disaster 2015: Collapse...

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The Case Against Hillary Clinton: Part 3 – Video


The Case Against Hillary Clinton: Part 3
Eric Holder did discuss the Marc Rich case before the White House counsel asked for his opinion on the matter, that does not negate the fact that Holder was asked on the final day of Clinton #39;s...

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Hillary Clinton responds to maternal paid leave question on CNN_ June 2014 – Video


Hillary Clinton responds to maternal paid leave question on CNN_ June 2014
Last year, I had the opportunity to ask Hillary Clinton a question to which our great nation has long awaited a good response - The question of paid maternal leave for women in the workforce....

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Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren met in December

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, at the confirmation hearing for then-Sen. John Kerry, D-Massachusetts January 24, 2013 in Washington, DC. Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosted Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts, for a meeting at her Washington home in December, theNew York Times reported Tuesday.

The two powerful women met in private without aides in what was described to the Times as a "cordial and productive" meeting. Amid reports Clinton has begun to bring on staff for a potential presidential campaign, the former Secretary of State did not ask Warren to consider endorsing her if she runs for president.

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Warren has repeatedly denied interest in running for president in 2016, yet she remains a powerful force in the Democratic Party. She has come to represent a more populist branch of the party, recently fighting to remove reforms that would have weakened Wall Street regulations in a spending bill that passed Congress last December. People in her inner circle have suggested to the Times that she would push Clinton to make income inequality and keeping a check on large financial firms important parts of her platform.

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Clinton, for her part, was once more in tune with the liberal wing of the party that has fallen in love with Warren, but has been accused of getting too close to Wall Street firms in recent years, in part because she has spent the two years since she left the State Department speaking to such groups for handsome fees.

The Times suggested the meeting was not only a good way for two relatively unfamiliar people to get to know each other better, but also for Clinton to try to ensure that Warren offers any opinions about Clinton's campaign or policies privately rather than publicly.

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Milbank: Hillary Clinton rebrands Obamas frat house as her own

The 2016 campaign has acquired an unexpected story line in its early stages: All Madam Presidents Men.

As Hillary Clinton begins to staff her nascent presidential campaign, a paradox has emerged. When she ran in 2008, she played down her potential to make history as the first woman to be president, but her campaign was run by a woman and dominated at the top levels by women. This time, Clinton is properly emphasizing her path-breaking role, but shes relying on the old-boy network in large part by taking over President Obamas heavily male campaign apparatus.

Her campaign chairman: John Podesta. Her campaign manager: Robby Mook. Her chief strategist: Joel Benenson. Her pollsters: Benenson, John Anzalone and David Binder. Her top media guy: Jim Margolis. John, Robby, Joel, John, David and Jim join former Obama hands such as Jim, Jeremy and Mitch, who have already been boosting Clintons candidacy in the super PAC world.

This is quite a departure from Clintons run eight years ago, when a Huffington Post study found that eight of her 14 senior staffers and 12 of her 20 highest-paid staffers were women (including campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle, who was later replaced by Maggie Williams, and chief media strategist Mandy Grunwald). By contrast, only three of Obamas top 12 staffers were women, and in less important roles.

This surely wasnt Clintons intent, but her decision to re-brand Obamas frat house as her own puts out a message quite at odds with her candidacy: that women cant run a presidential campaign. Will Hillary 16 Be a White Dude Fest? the Daily Beast asked last month.

Clinton world has since done some damage control, letting it be known that Jennifer Palmieri would run the campaigns communications operation and that Grunwald would have a role. And some of the grumbling about Clintons early hires isnt fair: Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Williams, though they dont (yet) have official roles, are highly influential members of Clintons inner circle. From what Ive heard, Clinton lieutenants were surprised by the reaction to the early slate of male hires. They say they blundered in putting out the names of several men at once and were not making a fundamental shift from the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit to the Obama towel snappers.

Even so, this suggests a tone deafness reminiscent of Obamas handling of the issue. A 2009 basketball game at the White House in which only men played became a symbol of an administration that excluded women from top positions. The common response that senior adviser Valerie Jarrett has broad influence behind the scenes is similar to the explanation of the role of women in Clintons emerging campaign.

There is one very good reason for Clinton simply to put her name on the door of Obamas campaign operation: His advisers clearly know how to win elections. Clintons 2008 run was famous for its dysfunction and internal feuding.

But its just as possible that merging Obamas advisers with her loyalists will simply produce more squabbling. Many of the officials now poised to work for Clinton spoke of her with undisguised contempt eight years ago. Have they suddenly been converted? Or are they working for Clinton to further their own ambitions and businesses while privately holding the views that are still being voiced by former top Obama strategist David Axelrod? Axelrod, who is not working for Clinton, has been critical of Clinton in his new book, in which he describes her as an opportunist and not a healing figure and too much a part of the system in Washington ever to change it.

An early hint of squabbles between Obama and Clinton loyalists came last week, when Clinton ally David Brock accused former Obama adviser Jim Messinas pro-Clinton super PAC, Priorities USA Action, of planting negative stories about him. Brock resigned from the Priorities USA board.

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