Jimmy Fallon sees Hillary Clinton #39;s point on media #39;s "double standard" April 4, 2014
Jimmy Fallon Sees Hillary Clinton #39;s Point on media #39;s "double standard" Jimmy Fallon #39;s monologue from Friday, April 4.
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April 3, 2014: Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks as she delivers the keynote address at the launch of the U.S. Global Development Lab, an initiative of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in New York.AP
Lets assume that Hillary Clinton was serious the other day when she said that excessive partisanship was taking America backwards. That means shes on the phone right now reading the riot act to fellow Democrats Harry Reid and Chuck Schumer.
Yeah, right.
Clintons pose of rising above the political scrum made for a good headline just as her party is plumbing new depths of mud and smears. Reid and Schumer are tarring David and Charles Koch in ways that smack of McCarthyism, though Tail Gunner Joe at least found a few real Communists.
Reid, a nasty little man who demeans the office of Senate majority leader, called the Koch brothers un-American because they dare to spend their own money advancing causes he doesnt like. Reid, of course, spends public money advancing causes the public doesnt like.
Schumer, hoping to succeed Reid, obviously thinks the way to success is to ape his mentors worst instincts. In the process, he proves the adage that sometimes, party asks too much, though its hard to know where party ends and personal ambition begins.
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Hillary Clinton has answered a question about her presidential journey again. (Tea leaf readers to the front office, please.) During an interview as a part of an appearance at a marketing conference, the former secretary of state said: "I am thinking about it, but I am going to continue to think about it for a while. ... The hard questions are not do you want to be president, or can you win. The hard questions are why. Why would you want to do this and what can you offer that could make a difference."
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If you strain your ears, you can hear a tiny shift in what Clinton is saying when she talks about "why" she is running. Though she isn't even close to declaring her candidacy, the Clinton 2016 campaign is already coming under fire for lacking vision. (This is also true of the food at the China Club restaurant in New York's Freedom Tower, which doesn't open until 2015.) If she rebutted the charge that the campaign she hasn't announced lacks a theme, that would be effectively announcing the campaign, so that's not going to happen. But there is a way to get at this issue. That's a little bit of what Clinton is doing here.
No candidate wants to fail the question Roger Mudd famously put to Ted Kennedy in 1979. Mudd asked why Kennedy was running against incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter, and the senator didn't have much of an answer. (It was a tap dance routine that lacked only a hat and cane).
This interview fed the belief that Kennedy was just going through the motions because he was a Kennedy and didn't have a real vision for himself or the country. Clinton faces the same problem Kennedy did. As with the son of the famous political family, there is so much noise that attends her presidential ambitions, whether it's talk of her husband, her gender, or her age and health, it's hard for a voter to hear a message even if there is one.
Clinton must prove that she is not just running because it's her turn or because she's popular, but because she actually wants to do something. Clinton says that's what she's pondering now. If she can focus everyone on why she might run during this crazy speculative period, they might focus a little more closely on her explanation to that specific question. If she does decide to run, the purpose of her candidacy may not get lost in the circus of the announcement.
If Clinton is being honest, and this is the only question she is considering, imagine the box that puts her in if she doesn't run. "I've decided I can't make a difference." That seems an unlikely outcome of this period of great pondering. So that means the bidding is open to come up with an answer to the "why question." The target answer presumably would be something that hinted at the prosperity of her husband's years but was also forward-looking, rebutting the idea that she's a candidate of the past. It would simultaneously flick at the historic nature of having a woman in the White House while not leaning too heavily on her sex. Oh, and the answer needs to be short enough to fit into Twitter's 140-character limit and leave room for the #Hillary2016 hashtag. Clinton says she's not going to announce until some time next year. Answering the "why question" will give her plenty to think about.
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Summary: The former Secretary of State concluded that innovation is at the core of solving not only technology and marketing problems, but also "human problems that can only be addressed by habits of the heart."
SAN FRANCISCO---Innovation isnt vital for just keeping a business afloat in Silicon Valley but also reinforcing the economy nationwide.
That was one of the sentiments iterated by former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Tuesday while delivering the afternoon keynote address at Marketos customer conference in San Francisco.
A summit for digital marketing software might seem like an unexpected (if not offbase) location to find the former First Lady these days being that she is widely rumored to be launching a presidential bid for 2016 soon.
Nevertheless, Clinton explained over the course of less than half an hour how she sees marketing driving innovation and the role it plays in promoting both economic prosperity as well as diplomacy.
"Big data gives us the processing power and tools to analyze the mountains of data generated by life in the 21st century, Clinton observed, citing McKinsey research that big data could unlock hundreds of billions of dollars" for the United States GDP.
"Big data gives us the processing power and tools to analyze the mountains of data generated by life in the 21st century, Clinton observed.
Clinton asserted she encouraged the implementation of social media during her years at the Department of State, methods that already seem commonplace today but were shrugged off as passing trends not long ago.
"Marketing had changed incredibly in recent years, and you have to stay on the cutting edge however you define that, Clinton said.
Highlighting Facebook and Twitter, Clinton argued that the use of social media demonstrates actual communication, versus stale methods such as simply sending out press releases or hosting press conferences. Thanks to these channels, Clinton posited that we are in the midst of the participation age."
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Hillary Clinton: Social media has fostered the 'participation age'
Hillary plants a seed of doubt
Speaking on the West Coast on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton once again was asked about whether shell run in 2016, but this time her answer contained a tiny seed of doubt. I am obviously flattered and deeply honored to have people ask me and people encourage me. And I am thinking about it, Clinton said in San Francisco, per NBCs Andrew Rafferty. But I'm going to continue to think about it for a while. Then came the doubt part, with Clinton saying the political back-and-forth she observed as Obamas secretary of state gave her pause about waging another presidential campaign. "I would be the first to say we're having a political period of, frankly, dysfunction, she added. I saw it from afar as secretary and it was disheartening and even embarrassing to see people arguing about letting us default on our debt. Of course, if there is any political player who is accustomed to deep partisanship and political dysfunction, its probably Hillary Clinton. (Remember impeachment and the government shutdown of the 1990s?) But anytime Hillary expresses a little doubt about 2016, its going to set off some panic in the Democratic Party. Why? Because, at least right now, there isnt another Democrat out there that would have the same demographic, experience, and fundraising strengths she has.
Huckabee strikes a populist tone in Iowa
Hillary Clinton wasnt the only potential 2016er speaking yesterday. Here was former Arkansas Gov. (and 2008 presidential candidate) Mike Huckabee in Iowa. At the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition's spring fundraiser, Huckabee gave a passionate speech tailor-made to appeal to religious conservatives and liberty-movement conservatives, two minority factions of the Iowa GOP, the Des Moines Register writes. He touched on abortion and same-sex marriage as well as topics that most presidential candidates weren't focused on two election cycles ago government spying, the IRS, liberty and the U.S. Constitution. But what was maybe the most striking part of Huckabees remarks was his VERY populist tone, blasting a federal government that leaves hard-working people scraping for $5 to put a little gas in their car while it shells out billions to Wall Street barons who take the country over the cliff, the Register adds. Folks, anytime you hear a 2016er criticize Wall Street or Goldman Sachs as Huckabee did yesterday, you can consider it an implicit dig at the establishment in general but also an attempt to differentiate themselves from a potential primary rival, namely, Sen. Ted Cruz (whose wife works at Goldman). And its worth pointing out how Huckabee, Cruz, and a Rick Santorum are all attempting to occupy the same evangelical populist space if they decide to run. And as we saw in 2008 and 2012, that evangelical populist space is how you win the Iowa caucuses.
More 2016 activity on the way
By the way, theres going to be even more 2016 activity later this week. On Friday, Paul Ryan headlines an Iowa GOP Lincoln Dinner in Cedar Rapids, IA. And on Saturday, Huckabee, Cruz, and Rand Paul will appear at a Freedom Summit in New Hampshire thats sponsored by the conservative groups Citizens United and Americans for Prosperity.
McCain vs. Kerry
Sen. John McCain and Secretary of State John Kerry had quite the exchange during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing yesterday. On the issue of Ukraine, my hero Teddy Roosevelt used to say talk softly but carry a big stick. What you're doing is talking strongly and carrying a very small stick. In fact, a twig, McCain said to Kerry, per NBCs Katie Wall. Kerry shot back: "Your friend Teddy Roosevelt also said the credit belongs to the people who are in the arena trying to get things done. And we're trying to get something done. That's a Teddy Roosevelt maxim and I abide by it." And there was more from NBCs Erin McClam: On the Middle East, Kerry took issue with McCains characterization of talks between Israelis and Palestinians. Kerry said that both sides wanted to keep negotiating. Well see, wont we, Mr. Secretary, McCain said. Kerry shot back: Yeah, we will see. McCain: Its stopped. It is stopped. Recognize reality. Obviously, Kerry and McCain have one of the more complicated political friendships in Washington. Two Vietnam vets from opposite parties who had VERY different experiences in war, and those experiences clearly influence their thinking about world affairs today. But to hear McCain dismiss the sitting secretary of state so publicly on an attempt at Mideast diplomacy was a tad surprising. Of course, theres little chance, history says theres little chance, but should a sitting senator who has the standing McCain has be saying that in the midst of the sensitive negotiations?
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