Hillary Clinton Called Obama To Say She Wasn't Trying To Attack Him [View all]
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Source: TPM
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called President Barack Obama Tuesday to stress that she was not trying to attack him in a recent interview with The Atlantic, Politico reported. A Clinton spokesman told Politico that the presumptive 2016 Democratic frontrunner called Obama to “make sure he knows that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him."
The interview garnered significant press attention for Clinton's comments in which she seemed to disparage Obama's guiding foreign policy principle: "Don't do stupid stuff." Some top Obama advisers subsequently responded to Clinton's comments publicly. Progressive groups issued critical statements.
The Clinton spokesman noted that Clinton and Obama had "honest differences on some issues" while she was serving in the Obama administration. He noted that the pair would see each other Wednesday night during a social gathering in Martha's Vineyard.
"Some are now choosing to hype those differences but they do not eclipse their broad agreement on most issues," the Clinton spokesman said. "Like any two friends who have to deal with the public eye, she looks forward to hugging it out when she they see each other tomorrow night.”
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Despite foreign policy criticism, Clinton to meet with Obama at Martha’s Vineyard party
By Agence France-Presse
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 12:16 EDT
Hillary Clinton may have distanced herself from Barack Obama’s foreign policy, but he doesn’t seem to have taken it personally: the two will meet at a party later this week.
Obama and the presumptive frontrunner for his Democratic Party’s 2016 presidential nomination are due to attend the same soiree on Martha’s Vineyard on Wednesday.
And the White House told AFP both the US leader and his wife Michelle were “very much looking forward to the occasion and seeing Former Secretary Clinton.”
The First Family is spending their summer vacation on the swanky Massachusetts resort island. Clinton, meanwhile, will be there for a signing of her memoir “Hard Choices.”
The social gathering will be held at the home of Vernon Jordan, a former adviser to ex-president Bill Clinton, the White House said.
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