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Anyone have copy on Hillary Clinton's take of Obama's endeavors against IS as of late? (Original Post) Purveyor Sep 2014 OP
We'll find out in a few months CJCRANE Sep 2014 #1
Maybe we'll hear something here: Hillary Clinton is going to Iowa this weekend. Purveyor Sep 2014 #2

CJCRANE

(18,184 posts)
1. We'll find out in a few months
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 02:01 AM
Sep 2014

if she runs for office.

If she does, my bet is that she'll be for more intervention but with more of a "theme" or a "story" about spreading freedom and American values all over the world.

 

Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
2. Maybe we'll hear something here: Hillary Clinton is going to Iowa this weekend.
Sat Sep 13, 2014, 02:14 AM
Sep 2014
Hillary Clinton is going to Iowa this weekend. How she acts will be telling.

Let's get one thing out of the way: Hillary Clinton is a massive favorite to win the Iowa caucuses -- and the Democratic presidential nomination -- in 2016. (If she runs, of course, which everyone now assumes she will.) Just in case you aren't hip to that reality, CNN and the Opinion Research Corporation released a poll on Friday that made it crystal clear; Clinton led the 2016 field in Iowa with 53 percent followed by Vice President Joe Biden at 15 percent. No one else even got into double digits.

So, when Clinton stops in Iowa for the first time in six years this Sunday -- she and her husband are headlining Sen. Tom Harkin's final Steak Fry -- she will be greeted like a hero. But, it's worth remembering Clinton's problems in Iowa in 2008 when analyzing the approach she takes to all of that adoration.

Clinton finished third in the 2008 Iowa caucuses -- John Edwards narrowly edged her out for second. There were lots and lots of reasons given for her struggles in the state up to and including:

* The Clinton machine wasn't strong in Iowa since Bill Clinton didn't seriously compete in the state in 1992 (native son Harkin made the race non-competitive) and was unchallenged for the Democratic nomination in 1996.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/09/12/hillary-clinton-is-going-to-iowa-this-weekend-how-she-acts-will-be-telling/
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