As some of you might have heard, Hillary met with the editorial board of the Pittsburgh Tribune last week and to hear her detractors tell it, she’d gone in and met with the devil himself rather than talk with those with the power to endorse one candidate or another in the race for the White House. Well the owner of the paper put out an op-ed today and I think Hillary impressed the board – or more to the point, knocked their socks off with her grasp of the issues.
Hillary, reassessed
Hillary Clinton walked into a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review conference room last Tuesday to meet with some of the newspaper's editors and reporters and declared, "It was so counterintuitive, I just thought it would be fun to do."
The room erupted in laughter. Her remark defused what could have been a confrontational meeting.
He goes on to describe how the Trib. has criticized Hillary over the years, and had again just that morning on their editorial pages.
Reading that, a lesser politician -- one less self-assured, less informed on domestic and foreign issues, less confident of her positions -- might well have canceled the interview right then and there.
She turned up anyway full of courage and confidence, and in the course of their 90 conversation Hillary changed his mind.
Sen. Clinton also exhibited an impressive command of many of today's most pressing domestic and international issues. Her answers were thoughtful, well-stated, and often dead-on.
Particularly regarding foreign policy, she identified what we consider to be the most important challenges and dangers that the next president must confront and resolve in order to guarantee our nation's security. Those include an increasingly hostile Russia, an increasingly powerful China and increasing instability in Pakistan and South America.
Like me, she believes we must pull our troops out of Iraq, because it is time for Iraqis to handle their own destiny -- and, more important, because it is past time to end the toll on our soldiers there, to begin rebuilding our military, and to refocus our attention on other threats, starting with Afghanistan.
Here’s what Hillary had to say regarding a question on Pakistan…
On domestic policy, Sen. Clinton and I might find more areas on which we disagree. Yet we also agree on others. Asked about the utter failure of federal efforts to rebuild New Orleans since the Katrina disaster, for example, she called it just what it has been -- "not just a national disgrace (but) an international embarrassment."
Take a look at a video of her comments re Katrina…
He’s not quite there yet regarding an endorsement, but I think Hillary laid the groundwork for one.
Especially if Obama can’t bring himself to go in and meet with Scaif and his paper’s editorial board.
I’ll let Hillary take us out here by talking about super delegates and the need to let the voters in the remaining contests have a say in who our party’s nominee will be…
Grace, courage, tough as nails and as smart as they come - that's Hillary Clinton.
She's shown us time and time again that she's willing ready and ABLE to take on the tough crowds, and win.
She went upstate and won over the republican voters in NY - and won with 67% of the vote.
She went to China and addressed the UN Conf. on women - they shut off the broadcast and she still went into the countryside to meet with thn folks from the NGO's.
She went to speak to Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union.
Heck she even went and spoke at last year's daily kos convention AND reworked her schedule to attend a break-out session.
And how many times has she gone toe to toe with the Sunday talkers like Russert?
This lady's not afraid of any one or any issue. She can handle whatever we throw at her and more!
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