Did Hillary Clinton Really Restore America’s Reputation in the World? Uh nope...

[Purveyor]

International public sentiment about the U.S. did not improve when Clinton was in charge of State, an aggregate of polls shows.

By Alexander McIntyre
June 2, 2016 — 5:00 AM EDT

Hillary Clinton is set to deliver a major speech on national security Thursday in San Diego, where she’s expected to outline her vision of America’s role in the world—and cast Donald Trump as a purveyor of “fear, bigotry, and misplaced defeatism.” Clinton and her surrogates often point to her foreign-policy expertise, and in particular her years as President Barack Obama’s first secretary of state, as evidence of her effectiveness as a leader.

“Hillary worked to restore America's leadership in the world, after it was badly eroded by eight years of the Bush administration's go-it-alone foreign policy,” her website says. At a Clinton rally in February, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, referring to the Bush administration, said, “They really undermined America's reputation and our position in the world. And Hillary as secretary brought us back.” Writing in Politico, New York Senator Charles Schumer, another Clinton supporter, said Clinton “did much to restore the shattered credibility of the United States, which had lost so much influence following the failed foreign policies of the previous administration.” Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson said she was “key in rebuilding America’s leadership and prestige overseas after the Bush years.”

Did Clinton really rehabilitate America’s global reputation? It’s not an easy thing to quantify or definitively dispute—which makes it an attractive applause line. But there is a way to get a general idea: by looking at whether international public sentiment about the U.S. did in fact improve when she was in charge of State.

Over the past 10 years—a time period that includes the end of the Bush administration and Clinton’s years as secretary of state—three major polls have asked citizens in dozens of countries for their opinions about the U.S. To make the results comparable, we weighted* the polls by population.



GlobeScan, a Toronto-based consultancy, conducts an annual global survey that asks people whether they think the U.S. is “having a mainly positive or mainly negative influence in the world.”

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http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-02/did-hillary-clinton-really-restore-america-s-reputation-in-the-world

[cheapdate]

1. Wow. US popularity overseas was soaring under George W. Bush.

[tonyt53]

2. Hillary acted at the behest of the person that hired her. She was an extension of him.

The SoS does not act on their own. So, that survey means jack shit because Obama is respected.

[Downwinder]

4. Ignored him on Honduras.

[frylock]

6. Pushed him on Libya.

[beachbumbob]

3. Named most admired female in world several time...

Brought respect back from where GWB left us...lol....no small feat

[IdaBriggs]

5. Trump is on those lists, too. Always consider the source. nt

[cheapdate]

7. For what it's worth,

1) The end of Hill's tenure was close to a 10 point improvement over 2008 and a 20 point improvement over 2007.
2) The US president arguably has a much greater impact on how the country is perceived.

[democrattotheend]

8. I give Obama most of the credit for restoring our image overseas

But I think Hillary played a part in it too. I will give credit where credit is due.