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But she can still blame Bush!

Can't name a single tangible Hillary Clinton accomplishment? Don't worry. Neither can she.

By Robert Laurie ——--April 7, 2014

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Thursday, Hillary Clinton appeared at the Women of the World Summit in New York City. There, she was asked what she is "most proud of" from her time as Secretary of State. Obviously, the audience was ready for Secretary Clinton to list her many achievements. After all, she's "the smartest woman in the world" and one of our finest political minds - so she should have no problem coming up with a litany of accomplishments, right?
Well, no. It turns out that Ms. Clinton is just as incapable of naming her successes as everyone else is. Instead of spotlighting her time at the State Department, she offers a rambling non-answer that centers on the standard, antiquated, "blame Bush" rhetoric.
So when President Obama asked me to be Secretary of State and I agreed, we had the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, we had two wars. We had continuing threats from all kinds of corners around the world that we had to deal with. So it was a perilous time frankly. And what he said to me was, ‘Look, I have to be dealing with the economic crisis, I want you to go out and represent us around the world.’ And it was a good division of labor because we needed to make it clear to the rest of the world, that we were going to get our house in order. We were going to stimulate, and grow, and get back to positive growth and work with our friends and partners.
“So I think we did that. I’m very proud of the stabilization and the really solid leadership that the administration provided that I think now, leads us to be able to deal with problems like Ukraine because we’re not so worried about a massive collapse in Europe and China — trying to figure out to do with all their bond holdings and all the problems we were obsessed with. I think we really restored American leadership in the best sense. That, once again — people began to rely on us as setting the values, setting the standards. I just don’t want to lose that because we have a dysfunctional political situation in Washington. And then of course, a lot of particulars, but I am finishing my book so you’ll be able to read all about it."
So, let's see..... The recipe for a Hillary Clinton success story is as follows:
  • 1 part Blame Bush
  • 1 part Iraq war
  • 1 part 'how I worked with Obama'
  • 1 part unprovable (and currently laughable) "restore American leadership"
  • a dash of "buy my book"
I get tired of writing this, but: If a conservative had given such a disastrously weak answer, the left would be roasting this "imbecilic right-wing failure" in every available media outlet. The humiliation wouldn't let up until the press had cemented their utter worthlessness as popular opinion. Hillary, of course, gets a pass. Apparently, the most important thing about Hillary's time as Secretary of State is that it gave her something to put in a book.

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