7 Ways Hillary Clinton And Friends Botched Benghazi
7 Ways Hillary Clinton And Friends Botched Benghazi.
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Hillary Clinton worked to fire up Democratic women Friday as the party looks to turn out its base voters in Novembers contested midterm elections. I know they may not be as glamorous as presidential elections, but these upcoming midterm elections really are crucial to our countrys future, she told the audience at a Democratic National Committee womens leadership forum in Washington.
Highlighting the role that female lawmakers have had in breaking Washington gridlock and advocating for progressive policies, Clinton praised a movement of women making a difference in government. Dont let anyone dismiss what youre doing here today as womens work, she said. Dont let anyone send you back to the sidelines.
Clinton didnt mention her own possible presidential ambitions, but she did note that she is on grandbaby watch as her daughter Chelsea prepares for the birth of her first child.
She also offered a vociferous defense of DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who introduced the former secretary of state. Wasserman Schultz has been under the spotlight after POLITICO reported that her fellow Democrats believe she is becoming a liability to the committee.
First published September 19 2014, 9:45 AM
TIME Politics 2016 Election Hillary Clinton Pledges to Campaign for Female Democratic Candidates Former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton addresses the Democratic National Committee's Women's Leadership Forum annual Issues Conference in Washington on Sept. 19, 2014. Jim BourgReuters Calling out Senate and gubernatorial candidates by name, Clinton pledges to help get every woman on the ballot elected
Hillary Clinton plunged back into the political waters Friday by pledging to work to get all the female Democratic candidates on the ballot elected in November.
I cant think of a better way to make the House work again than electing every woman on the ballot, Clinton told the Democratic Womens Leadership Forum, a group she helped start more than 20 years ago with former Second Lady Tipper Gore. There are 10 women running for the Senate, six women running for governor and I wish I could vote for all of them.
Clinton called out several candidates by name: Senate challengers Michelle Nunn in Georgia, Alison Lundergan Grimes in Kentucky and West Virginias Natalie Tennant, incumbent Sens. Kay Hagan in North Carolina and Jeanne Shaheen in New Hampshire, and House candidate Staci Appel in Iowa.
The former Secretary of State particularly tout former Trek Bicycle executive Mary Burke, who is challenging Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. Burke she is offering a choice between more angry gridlock, Clinton said, and smart progressive policies.
Clinton said she wanted to see a movement of women rise up to take back the government. Were in the home stretch and it all comes down on who shows up to vote, she told the crowd of female Democratic organizers, many of whom will be relied on to turn out female voters in November. This country will maintain a level playing field so whether youre the grandchild of a president, or the grandchild of a janitor, whether you were born in a city or a small rural village, no matter who you are you have the right to inherit the American dream.
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STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Des Moines, Iowa (CNN) -- If Hillary Clinton decides not to run for president -- and yes, that is still possible -- her return to the media lion's den might be a factor in her thinking.
She's done a national book tour and the paid lecture circuit, but Clinton got an up-close look at today's frenzied political news environment last weekend when she visited Iowa for the first time in seven years, a spectacle primed for an avalanche of media coverage given her expected campaign and her tortured history with the Hawkeye State.
I joined more than 200 other reporters who swarmed the scene and tweeted away, even though most Americans on social media that day probably cared more about Robert Griffin's ankle.
The press scrum that assembled to witness noncandidates Hillary and Bill Clinton flip Hy-Vee steaks with Sen. Tom Harkin -- behind a barricade, of course -- was as large, if not larger, than the media hordes that covered her at the height of her 2008 campaign.
One reporter got whacked in the head with the butt of a big television camera. Another photographer dramatically toppled off his ladder while straining to get a shot. It was a little absurd. When the Clintons approached the media zoo for question time, Bill Clinton leaned in and relished the scene. Hillary kept her distance.
Political Twitter, though, wasn't just a stream of gauzy Instagram-filtered pics of the Clintons: It was also rife with media criticism, some fair and some not, from politicos and press critics who pointed to the event as another example of lazy "pack journalism" with little journalistic upside.
The sniping had some credibility. What was the competitive advantage of being there, just one more reporter among the herd, all of us racing around to get the same quotes and the same pictures?
This was especially true for the many journalists in attendance who rarely travel outside of Washington or New York to cover politics but decided to open up their travel budget for this one trip.
Couldn't their time have been better spent reporting on an undercovered Senate or governor's race in some other part of the country, far away from the rest of the media scrum? Of course, the academics would say. But the incentive structure of today's click-driven news economy begs to differ. Hillary gets eyeballs. Arkansas' Tom Cotton does not. This is the world we live in.
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