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[Omaha Steve]

6. Hillary Clinton's book tour exposed "flaws in the machinery"

I met VP Biden in Omaha when he was on a book tour in 06. Got the book autographed What exactly is your point?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/hillary-clintons-book-tour-exposed-flaws-in-the-machinery/

By REBECCA KAPLAN, JAKE MILLER FACE THE NATION June 29, 2014, 4:43 PM

Political analysts from the left and right disagree on whether the former Secretary of State's recent memoir, Hard Choices, was a good read, but they all said it helped her team to identify some weaknesses that could affect a potential presidential campaign.

Clinton faced a "dilemma" with the book, in that she has finished her term at the helm of the State Department but still sees a potential political future, said Dee Dee Myers, who served as former President Bill Clinton's press secretary, in a panel on CBS News' "Face the Nation." Her staffs' attempts to prevent the recent book tour from turning into a political campaign "proved to be much harder than expected," Myers said.

"In this day and age and being Hillary Clinton, everything's about politics. So I think they've some work cut out for them," Myers said. "She's hasn't declared anything yet. And so, it's all fixable, but I think they saw some flaws in the machinery that they need to go back and readdress."

Wall Street Journal Columnist Peggy Noonan, who called the memoir "a banal piece of work," said the interviews that Clinton conducted with various media outlets "gave fresh life to stories such as Benghazi" and other issues that Clinton could face as her party's nominee.


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