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April 7th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Nancy Pelosi, the party’s leader in the House of Representatives, said she
“would love” her to be their next nominee. Kirsten Gillibrand, her successor
as senator for New York, promised to ask her to stand again. Even David
Plouffe, mastermind of the Obama campaign that dashed her hopes in the
bitter 2008 party primary, said: “She would be a very strong candidate”.
“Texts from Hillary,” a website based on a photograph of Mrs Clinton coolly
staring at her BlackBerry aboard an official plane, as aides scurry in the
background, meanwhile became an internet sensation, with readers imagining
the comically robust messages she was dispatching around the world.
As she enters her final straight as America’s most senior diplomat, Mrs
Clinton’s admirers cite a simple reason for this resurgent popularity and
pressure to take another shot at the top job. In an exhausting role, fraught
with potential for disaster, she has done well, they claim.
“Secretary Clinton has successfully reshaped the American position after all
the problems left by the Bush years,” said Gideon Rose, a National Security
Council official in Mr Clinton’s White House who now edits the journal
Foreign Affairs. “They’ve managed to avoid major mistakes. Most
administrations have a few truly major foreign policy screw-ups. This one
has generally avoided them”.
In a mark of how relatively gaffe-averse Mrs Clinton has been, few now recall
her use of the wrong Russian word for “reset” in a major clear-the-air
summit with Moscow just weeks into the new administration. She announced
instead that relations between the two nations would be “overcharged”.
Supporters argue this is remarkable given the overseas challenges she and Mr
Obama have faced. While winding down two unpopular wars, they executed a new
one in Libya without catastrophe. They also managed to appear to back a
democratic uprising against Arab dictators they called friends just weeks
earlier, without being labelled hypocrites in the popular imagination.
To sceptics, however, Mrs Clinton deserves little credit. “It is hard to say
she has been a consequential Secretary of State of the George Shultz or
James Baker variety,” said Elliott Abrams, a senior foreign policy aide to
President George W. Bush. “President Obama has felt able to lead foreign
policy and diplomacy and has, I think, given her little to do,” he said.
“The President is a control freak,” added Mr Rose.
Other critics see far more serious problems papered over by Mrs Clinton’s
popularity and media savvy, accusing her of focusing on women’s rights and
other personal priorities while failing to persuade Russia to allow action
on Syria, or taking a firm enough grip on Iran or North Korea among other
failings.
“Managing a ship on rough seas, she has just about dealt with the waves but
has had no plans to get a bigger boat, or somehow get to shore,” said
Richard Grenell, a former US official at the UN.
However detractors and admirers alike say that by being made to step aside
from Mr Obama’s failed attempts to advance the middle-east peace process,
and his subsequent chilled relations with Israel, she may emerge handily
untarnished by this and other high-profile foreign policy setbacks. At 69
when the 2016 election comes around, she may decide she is past her prime –
but will be the same age as Ronald Reagan when he swept to power in 1980.
Asked this week for her plans, she told an interviewer: “I want to do the best
job I can as the Secretary of State for this president.” Then, she said, she
would “take some time to get reconnected to the stuff that makes life worth
living”.
As for the 2016 chatter? “It’s very flattering,” she said. “But I’m not at all
planning to do that.” By failing to close, lock and brick over the door to
another run for the White House, she will have done nothing to quieten her
backers.
“I don’t think you’ve seen the last of Hillary Clinton,” said Mr Rose.
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