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Hillary Accomplishment Finally Discovered: “She Boosted Morale at State Department”

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On May 24, 2014 @ 1:37 pm In The Point | 11 Comments

Hillary did wonders for the morale of Ambassador Stevens. No one can argue with that.

Valerie Plame was interviewed by ABC News on the occasion of a Ready for Hillary fundraiser she and her husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, headlined this week in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

“Which past president would you compare Hillary Clinton to?”

“FDR comes to mind as a person who has such a sweep of experience as she does. I mean, across the board: legislative, executive policy. Even those that hate Hillary admit she is a work horse and not a show horse. She gets down into the nuts and bolts and figures out “what’s the policy, what’s the substance?”

Can Valerie name an example of Hillary doing that… or anything else.

“What would you say were Hillary Clinton’s successes at the State Department?”

“My husband, Joe, would be in a better place to answer that. He’s more a foreign policy guy. But it’s the inside baseball that you don’t see. The morale at the State Department was really lifted while she was there. Also what she did in terms of outreach. There’s lots of ways to convey U.S. power and influence, soft versus hard. I hope that doesn’t come across in any way sounding sexist.”

Suddenly when Plame is asked for details, she claims not to know, even after jabbering about FDR’s nuts and bolts in the previous answer.

I can lift morale at State too. Hand out donuts to everyone. When you’re claiming that X lifted morale, it’s bureacratese for they did nothing at all. Hillary running on a platform of lifting morale in the Federal government doesn’t have much appeal outside D.C.

And I think we were all impressed by Hillary’s soft power reset button outreach.


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