What happens in the Mideast if Hillary Clinton Becomes President?
9/1/2014: "The Progressive Experience" - Episode #001 The impending presidency of Hillary Clinton is a big possibility in 2016, and there will be a lot of concerns from the left-wing side...
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By Dan Merica, CNN
updated 6:53 PM EDT, Fri September 5, 2014
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Washington (CNN) -- Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the span of a few months, has gone from saying she is not thinking about running for president to telling an audience in Mexico on Friday that she will make her presidential decision around the first of 2015.
"I am going to be making a decision around, probably after the first of the year about whether I am going to run again."
Clinton said that in order to run, she "will have to be convinced that I have a very clear vision with an agenda of what I think needs to be done."
"Obviously, I'm thinking about it, but I have not made a decision yet," Clinton said during an event for Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim's foundation.
She added that she has a "unique vantage point and set of experiences about what makes the United States operate well and what doesn't and what a president can do and should be doing."
Clinton's position on 2016 has noticeably changed since the start of 2014.
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(CNN) -- Mitt Romney and Hillary Clinton have dueling opinion pieces about foreign policy in The Washington Post on Friday, but neither former presidential candidate appeared to take a stand on the current debate dominating the foreign policy arena: how to deal with ISIS.
Reviewing former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's book "World Order," Clinton writes that she and President Barack Obama share a similar world view as Kissinger, one that's rooted in "a belief in the indispensability of continued American leadership in service of a just and liberal order."
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Clinton, who's thinking about another run for president in 2016, argues that what makes the country a leader is not only its military strength but its "soft power" -- its values, relationships and diplomacy. She likes to call it "smart power."
While she doesn't mention the emerging crisis related to ISIS, she writes, "it's time for another of our great debates about what America means to the world and what the world means to America."
"We need to have an honest conversation together -- all of us -- about the costs and imperatives of global leadership, and what it really takes to keep our country safe and strong," the Democrat writes.
Romney, in his op-ed, argues that the dominating force that keeps the U.S. on top is its military strength and that one can't equate that with soft-power values. Widely seen as the GOP's party elder, Romney warns that decreasing military budgets can lead to disastrous outcomes.
"The most ludicrous excuse for shrinking our military derives from the president's thinking: 'Things are much less dangerous now than they were 20 years ago, 25 years ago or 30 years ago.' The 'safer world' trial balloon has been punctured by recent events in Ukraine, Afghanistan, Libya, Egypt, Gaza, Nigeria, Somalia, Syria and Iraq," the 2012 GOP nominee writes.
" 'Failures of imagination' led to tragedy 13 years ago; today, no imagination is required to picture what would descend on the United States if we let down our guard," he continues.
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Romney, Clinton duel on op-ed pages
U.S. Senate seats seem to have changed Elizabeth Warren, left, and Hillary Clinton.
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Washington (CNN) -- In the context of 2016, Hillary Clinton and Elizabeth Warren are rivals for the Democrats' presidential nomination whose every word about each other is scrutinized and picked apart.
But Warren and Clinton have been on the national stage for years, and before they were ever considered rivals, they met each other in the late '90s.
Warren spoke about the meeting in a 2004 interview on Bill Moyers' "NOW on PBS" show. Warren reflects glowingly of Clinton as first lady but also bluntly talks about how Clinton's election to the Senate in 2000 changed the former secretary of state.
In 1998, Warren -- an expert and professor on bankruptcy law -- wrote an op-ed for The New York Times titled "Bankrupt? Pay Your Child Support First," about how the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2000 would disproportionally hurt women and families trying to collect alimony checks from their ex-husbands.
The piece, Warren tells Moyers, was eventually read by then-first lady Clinton, whose office subsequently set up a meeting with the professor in Boston.
"After she's finished her speech, we're ushered into a tiny, little room somewhere in the bowels of this hotel, and just the two of us. They close the door. Mrs. Clinton sits down. We have hamburgers and french fries," Warren says.
Warren adds: "And she (Clinton) says, 'Tell me about bankruptcy.' And I got to tell you, I never had a smarter student. Quick, right to the heart of it. I go over the law. It's a complex law. Went over the economics. Showed her the graphs, showed her the charts. And she got it."
According to Warren, at the end of the briefing, Clinton stood up and said: "Professor Warren, we've got to stop that awful bill."
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Elizabeth Warren's unvarnished view of Hillary Clinton in 2004
Hillary Clinton says she wants to transform the United States into the clean energy superpower of the 21st century. At an energy business meeting on Thursday, she called on businesses and politicians to confront climate change through smart investment in infrastructure, technology and environmental protection.
The threat is real and so is the opportunity if we make the hard choices, the Democrats' frontrunner presumptive for 2016 said at the National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas. Clinton's keynote remarks aimed to reach crucial constituencies in the renewable energy and Democratic ranks as she prepares for a likely presidential run, observers said.
Globally, clean energy represents a $250 billion industry, and countries are vying for the biggest slice of that market.
In recent years, the United States has fallen behind China as the top investor in the sector, which includes renewable energy projects like solar, wind and geothermal, biofuels made from plants, energy-efficient technologies like smart meters and energy storage devices. Last year, China drew more than $54 billion in clean energy investments, while the United States saw nearly $37 billion -- a 9 percent drop in investment from 2012, according to research from the Pew Charitable Trusts.
In her remarks, Clinton warned the U.S. cannot afford to cede leadership in this area. Our economic recovery, our efforts against climate change, our strategic position in the world all will improve if we can build a safe bridge to a clean energy economy.
The former U.S. secretary of state, first lady and New York senator didnt offer specifics on what a Clinton energy agenda might look like, the National Journal noted. But she did express support for the Obama administrations climate action plan, a broad set of measures that includes the recently proposed EPA rules for curbing carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.
As expected, Clinton steered clear of the Keystone XL pipeline debate, though she has expressed support for the project in the past. Her State Department oversaw part of the Canada-to-Texas conduits environmental review process, which is still in progress. If President Barack Obama doesnt issue a final verdict before 2016, the decision will likely fall to his successor.
Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey, a possible Republican contender for Obamas job, threw his support behind the proposed 1,179-mile pipeline in a Wednesday speech from Mexico City. He called the Keystone XL an enormous opportunity and indirectly chided the Obama administration for stalling the project.
Clinton did, however broach the topic of natural gas, a sensitive subject among environmentalists. Some groups argue that replacing coal with lower-carbon gas will help reduce harmful emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the short term, until zero-carbon sources like solar and wind can reach a massive scale. Others say the trade-offs are too high with fracking, a method commonly used to drill natural gas. Along with concerns of groundwater contamination, the fracking process has also been tied to unusual earthquake swarms in Oklahoma, Arkansas and Texas.
The former top diplomat endorsed the U.S. natural gas boom, calling it a safe bridge to a clean energy economy. She called for smart regulations to limit leaks of methane -- a potent greenhouse gas -- at drilling sites and to keep operators from drilling when the risks are too high.
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Hillary Clinton: I Want To Turn The US Into 'Clean Energy Superpower'