Hillary Clinton will do a good job on foreign policy: Poll

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Washington: Americans are more likely to say Hillary Clinton would do a good job handling foreign affairs as president, but they believe her greatest strength would be race relations, according to a new poll. The former first lady, who is the leading hopeful for Democratic nomination for the 2016 race to the White House, also gets generally mixed reviews of her tenure as secretary of state under her 2008 rival President Barack Obama in the latest Gallup poll. Given her background including four years as America’s top diplomat, along with eight years as a US senator and eight years as first lady in the White House, Clinton’s prior service could be seen as a major plus for her presidential credentials, the opinion poll agency said.

Republicans and others, however, have assailed aspects of her tenure at the State Department, a time that involved her handling of the terrorist attacks at the Benghazi consulate and her handling of emails while secretary, it noted. Americans give Clinton a net rating on foreign affairs (percentage good job minus percentage bad job) of +13, which is roughly the same as healthcare and the economy, but behind the +22 rating she receives for her potential to deal with race relations. Her ratings on handling terrorism are just behind these others. Americans are least positive about the job Clinton would do in handling two broad issues: the way government in Washington operates and the distribution of income and wealth in the US.

- See more at: http://www.freepressjournal.in/hillary-clinton-will-do-a-good-job-on-foreign-policy-poll/#sthash.fIHb8HLz.dpuf

[Thinkingabout]

1. Yes, she will be strong on foreign policy, though she was working Obama's agenda she

Has experienced first hand the duties of SOS and will be able to use this with her policies. Until (which I doubt ever) the GOP accepts responsibility for the cuts to the state department then the non-scandal of Hillary being responsible for the attacks is totally wrong, put the blame on the guilty ones.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. They should link to the actual poll...

It's not up on the Gallup site yet but Gallup alluded to it in another poll.

[truebluegreen]

3. What did she actually accomplish,

other than logging a lot of air miles? It's a serious question.

[Thinkingabout]

4. True, she was working Obama's agenda, I realize this is a question ask by RW people,

One of the first things hich needed to be change was the attitudes towards the US after the Bush years.

[truebluegreen]

5. Are you trying to imply that I are RW people?

John Kerry is also "working Obama's agenda", and seems to be making far more actual progress.

[Thinkingabout]

6. Did I say that, I said it is a question ask by RW groups.

Yes John Kerry is working on Obama's agenda, had the troops been pulled from Iraq when Kerry became SOS, no. Did Kerry get the job right after the Bush administration left office, no. Currently the relationship with Netanyahu is worse so who do you blame for this. The negotiations with Iran is getting to the position of accepting or not, and US isn't the only nation working on this. When Hillary was first SOS there was terrible relationships with many countries, one being France so just like gestation for babies to be born it did not happen overnight.

[truebluegreen]

8. So in your opinion she didn't actually accomplish much because of timing.

Fair enough.

[Thinkingabout]

11. You are not good enough to rewrite my post, don't even try.

Twice you tried and you fail both times, try somewhere else.

[truebluegreen]

12. Just trying to understand what you are saying.

But poor grammar, usage and sentence construction, and perhaps deliberate obfuscation, make it difficult. Is English your mother tongue?

[Thinkingabout]

13. Don't even go there, try reading comprehension.

[truebluegreen]

16. Riiiight.

[treestar]

19. Really?

You think that is all their is to being SOS?

There's a lot of day to day stuff to do that we may not be aware of.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

20. You sound like your are channeling Carly Fiorina

"Surveying her tenure, she does not list accomplishments, only activities,"

-Carly Fiorina

[truebluegreen]

21. Yes, of course, anyone who questions the Hillary resume

must be channeling Carly Fiorina.
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No other explanation is possible.



btw, are you channeling the previous poster? It's "you are" or "you're".

[DemocratSinceBirth]

22. Mea Culpa

btw, are you channeling the previous poster? It's "you are" or "you're".

Do the spelling and typographical NAZIs throw people into literal gas chambers or figurative ones?

[truebluegreen]

23. You poor thing.

Likening having your spelling and/or typographical errors corrected to being thrown into even a figurative gas chamber. Do you get out much?

[DemocratSinceBirth]

24. If the metaphor fits wear it...

Ooops...

Now you will correct my mixed metaphor...

[truebluegreen]

25. Hah.

If the metaphor is wildly-overblown hyperbole, don't let it pass.

[Exilednight]

26. I have the same question. In another post I asked the same thing and didn't get

An answer.

Her tenure at state is mediocre at best. There is nothing there for her to point to and say "I made a lasting difference that will fundamentally change the world and strengthen US standing." It seems to me that it was nothing more than a way to pad her resume.

I don't believe it's a coincidence that Biden was put in charge of Iraq and Afghanistan while she was at State, and that Iran nuclear negotiable and Cuban relations happened after she left State.

She didn't want anything too controversial to get in her way for her presidential run.

When it comes to Benghazi, I honestly believe that it was just bad luck. It just happened on her watch and there was nothing she could have done to stop it.

On the other hand, she took on no real challenges in which she might fail. She played it as safe as she could and left just in time to get out of government service and paint herself as a stateswoman.

Just like there is no there there when it comes to Benghazi, there is also no there there when it comes to her substance at State.

i, also, find it interesting that Obama ditched his foreign policy pledge after being elected and picked Hillary to head State. Their differences on foreign policy is why I supported Obama over Hillary, but once he was elected he adopted many of her foreign policy positions. After she left, he appointed Kerry and seems to be following his pledge with great outcomes. I don't believe this to be a coincidence either.

[truebluegreen]

30. I think the same: there is no there there...

She seems to have spent her time at State avoiding controversy and shaking a lot of hands. Benghazi was a convenient reason for Republicans to attack her, and Obama (while, as always, ignoring all attacks during Dubya's term). My only quibble with her was for losing her cool in front of one of the umpteen committees; otoh there could have been more pushback from our side regarding the Republicans' duplicity and hypocrisy (cutting funding for security and then complaining about the lack of security).

And like you I found it curious that Obama, who painted himself as a better candidate than Hillary largely on foreign policy differences...appointed her SoS.

Kerry, on the other hand, seems to have been training for this job his entire life, and is going for the hard stuff.

[Exilednight]

32. That's pretty much my view. I wish one of her supporters would actually answer my question. I keep

reading how they want to debate issues, yet when I raise issues I hear nothing but crickets.

[truebluegreen]

33. Crickets, or "you're just like Carly Fiorina!"

[Exilednight]

34. I only her accused of right-wing talking points when I go into

An anti-gum tangent. Talk about irony.

[truebluegreen]

35. +1

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. As evidenced by her vote and support of Bush's adventure in Iraq?

[geek tragedy]

9. Better than Republicans, probably worse than Obama. nt

[Maedhros]

10. "We came, we saw, he died."

Don't need anymore of that.

[Thinkingabout]

14. You can usually tell when people does not have anything to add to the conversation by

The same old talking jabs. They may be living sheltered lives.

[truebluegreen]

17. ftw "...(do) not..."

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[L0oniX]

15. Yep ...and we'd be bombing Iran right now with her leadership.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/10/opinion/10dowd.html?_r=0

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/apr/23/hillaryclinton.iran

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2008/04/iran-a24.html

http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/04/22/us-usa-politics-iran-idUSN2224332720080422

[AtomicKitten]

27. x 1,000,000,000

[Purveyor]

29. Indeed! eom

[treestar]

18. lol at Republicans immediately starting out with Benghazi

They will never stop trying to use it and the voters are going to continue to ignore them. No great scandal there Republicans. Look for another one.

[yallerdawg]

28. Where do we find these Democrats?

Democrats generally expect her to perform well in all of the different areas, Republicans expect her to do poorly in all areas and independents have mixed views. Both Democrats and Republicans rate foreign affairs near the top of their respective rank-ordered lists, but with vastly different absolute ratings. Democrats’ net rating of her potential ability to handle foreign policy is +62, independents is +2, and Republicans is -44. Americans are somewhat mixed in their evaluations of Clinton’s four years as secretary of state, with more Americans rating her tenure as outstanding or above average than rating it below average or poor.

[Exilednight]

31. Only +62 by Democrats? What does it say when

38% of her own party don't support her in foreign policy

It's not the very top of my list, but it's in the top 3.

[BrotherIvan]

36. If she would work for peace, she could be a powerhouse

I remember in 2008 when she asked, "What part of peace and prosperity didn't you like?" referring to Bill's presidency. I think she has a lot of clout in the world and could use it for peace.

But the idea that her greatest strength is race relations is the strangest thing I've ever heard. Huh?