The Briefing Room
General Category => Politics/Government => Topic started by: DCPatriot on May 10, 2014, 02:20:02 pm
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Hillary Clinton's no good, very bad week
Maggie Haberman
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Hillary Clinton isn’t a candidate for president, at least not yet. But this week felt like she was very much in the 2016 grind.
One day, she was weighing in on gun control, Obamacare and social inequality. The next she was taking heat over Benghazi and facing questions about whether as Secretary of State she went too easy on the group behind the kidnap of Nigerian girls.
Then there was Monica Lewinsky, reviving the scandals of 1998.
It was arguably the roughest week Clinton has had since she left the State Department early last year, highlighting the tensions between the past and the future that will inevitably come to a head if she runs.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clinton-monica-lewinsky-benghazi-106545.html (http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/hillary-clinton-monica-lewinsky-benghazi-106545.html)
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