The swift title change away from Bernie's 20% win, remember when IA's results were left until the last breath before New Hampshire because it had Clinton's 0.3% win on there?
You're so annoying. He won. We all know it. We're literally on to SC. Everyone is. Even the Bernster himself.
Hillary Clinton Promises A More Muscular Foreign Policy As President
From Iran to Syria to Ukraine, Clinton wants the U.S. to be more aggressive.
In the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election, Hillary Clinton’s vote to authorize
the Iraq War six years before haunted her on the campaign trail.
It put her in stark contrast with then-Senator Barack Obama,
who touted his foresight in opposing the ill-fated war.
But if Clinton was scarred by the perception that her foreign policy agenda is too hawkish for the Democratic Party, she showed no signs of it Wednesday morning in a speech detailing her plan to counter Iran after the implementation of the nuclear deal.
While Clinton was instrumental in paving the road for the nuclear negotiations with Iran in 2012 and
supports the accord reached between Iran, the U.S., and five world powers in July,
she made clear on Wednesday at the Brookings Institution that she does not view
the agreement as marking a shift in U.S.-Iranian relations.
“I don’t believe Iran is our partner in this agreement. Iran is the subject of the agreement,”
Clinton said, using rhetoric that notably contrasts with that of the Obama administration,
which has been consistenly cautious about not upsetting Iran.
While Obama has always insisted that military action against Iran remained on the table,
he generally avoided issuing what could be construed as an outright threat. But the key to successful implementation to the Iran deal,
Clinton argued, is showing the Iranians the U.S. is serious.
"We should expect that Iran will want to test the next president."
"They will want to see how far they can bend the rules," she said in the speech.
"That won’t work if I’m in the White House."
To show her seriousness, the former secretary of state suggested deploying additional U.S. forces
to the Persian Gulf region and recommended that Congress “close any gaps” in the existing sanctions
to punish Iran for any current or future instances of human rights abuses and support for terror.
Although the nuclear agreement allows for additional sanctions that are unrelated to Iran’s nuclear program,
it also requires parties to avoid action “inconsistent with the letter, spirit and intent” of the deal.
Since July, a handful of senators from both parties have said they are drafting new sanctions laws.
Though the Obama administration has resisted additional sanctions during the implementation phase of the nuclear agreement,
Clinton advised Obama to work with lawmakers to pass new laws.
While the speech focused on Iran, Clinton also addressed foreign policy elsewhere,
highlighting areas in which she thought Obama was too hesitant to use military might to exert American influence abroad.
The administration’s decision to back down from threats to bomb
Syrian President Bashar Assad in 2013 for his use of chemical weapons,
an operation Clinton actively supported, “cost us,” she said -- though she conceded that
the trade-off of getting Russian assistance to transfer the bulk of
Assad’s chemical weapons arsenal out of the country was a worthy endeavor.
As secretary of state, Clinton was an early supporter of arming and training members of the Syrian opposition to fight Assad, a plan that faced resistance out of concern that it would be difficult to appropriately vet fighters and ensure that weapons didn’t fall into the hands of extremists. Today, the program is off to a slow start, with only 54 graduates from the first class, several of whom scattered after coming under attack by an al Qaeda affiliate in Syria.
As commander-in-chief, Clinton would dramatically escalate the program, she said.
Clinton also criticized the Obama administration’s minimal efforts to contain
Russia’s expansionist efforts in Ukraine since the 2014 annexation of Crimea.
She put herself “in the category of people who wanted to do more in reaction to the annexation of Crimea,"
adding that the Russian government's objective is
"to stymie, to confront, to undermine American power whenever and wherever they can."
Republicans have leveled similar criticism against Obama, accusing him of acquiescing to the
Russians in exchange for their support in negotiating the nuclear agreement with Iran.
For all the divergence between Clinton and Obama’s foreign policy rhetoric,
there is minimal variance in their actual policy prescriptions --
a point most acutely emphasized in Clinton’s remarks on her commitment to Israeli security.
Clinton vowed to preserve Israel’s qualitative military edge and suggested renewing
its current security package (currently $3 billion a year in U.S. aid) this year rather than waiting until it expires in 2017 --
both non-controversial policies that would have the backing of any American president.
But she add that she’d invite Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to visit the White House within her first month in office,
noting that “tough love” for the country is counterproductive because it invites other countries to delegitimize Israel.
You're so annoying. He won. We all know it. We're literally on to SC. Everyone is. Even the Bernster himself.
I'm happy you find it annoying when bias in favor of Clinton gets called out. This still doesn't change the fact that the IA title stayed there until the very last minute before NH because it was in favor of Clinton. It's a (rather trivial) symbolization of how the bigger bias works in favor of Clinton.
It is no surprise that Hillary is the establishment democrat candidate since she is the only registered democrat running for POTUS and has been since the sixties.
Democratic National Committee: Organization Lifts Ban Against Contributions From Federal Lobbyists
The change was made in recent months and reported by The Washington Post. Barack Obama originally put the ban in place when he became the party's presidential candidate in 2008.
It is no surprise that Hillary is the establishment democrat candidate since she is the only registered democrat running for POTUS and has been since the sixties.
It's quite interesting how Bernie stans rail against the Democratic establishment for not supporting him.
He won. We all know it. We're literally on to SC. Everyone is. Even the Bernster himself.
, we can give you a final projection on March 1.