Joe Manchin backs Clinton 2016
Source: Politico
By LUCY MCCALMONT | 1/29/14 9:49 AM EST
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin says he wants Hillary Clinton to run in 2016.
"I dont know if theres anyone more qualified. I've seen it all, " Manchin said Wednesday at POLITICO's post State of the Union event at the Capital Hilton Hotel in Washington.
"Experience, basically. Its hard to replace that," he added.
He cited her experience and said Clinton has "seen it from the front lines" including her time as first lady in both the White House and in Arkansas when Bill Clinton served as governor.
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heaven05
(18,124 posts)no doubt, but who will she really represent?
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)brooklynite
(93,834 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)to opensecrets.org, at the highest estimate, though it could be as low as $3M.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)L0oniX
(31,493 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)Who knew? Did she keep that reset button? LOL.
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)to refuse to appear on Sunday shows (and let Susan Rice, who had nothing to do with anything, take the heat)-after all, it was Clinton's employees that died. But as for the security situation itself, I don't think she could have had a handle on that. In broader terms, she accomplished little and gave a lot of bad advice to the President.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)The WH decided to send her, not State. It's the WH who always decide which person to send on the Sunday talk shows. Although, it is true that Hillary almost never did those shows. She simply doesn't like appearing on them.
TwilightGardener
(46,416 posts)But someone high up smelled future political damage for Hillary (endless video clips delivering CIA-written lines that didn't hold up over time) and the protective shield went up. Who decided that? Pretty hinky shit.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)I don't think that the WH would have deliberately thrown Susan Rice to the wolves. She is a close ally of the president.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)Or is it Sean?
Come to think of it, this deserves a fuller rebuttal. Do you think that she personally translated that button? It was the translator who screwed up.
As for disastrous, a SOS enacts a president's foreign policy. If you have some issue as to how our foreign policy is conducted, take it up with the president.
This is a Democratic site, your comment could have been lifted verbatim from any RW site.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Hillary served as the foreign commerce commissioner, and under her tenure and signature spied on diplomats.
Beacool
(30,244 posts)It is standard operating procedure to garner information on foreign diplomats. Are you naive enough to think that other countries are not trying to garner information on our diplomats? They have their own dossiers, just as we have ours.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)And everything the Senator from India did to promote GE and Westinghouse.
Not surprised. Not impressed.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)Its' fine for the party for the short term, she'll probably be elected, but in the long term the party and the nation will suffer due to TPP, KeystoneXL, and the rest of the DINO agenda.