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karynnj

(59,957 posts)
2. It bothers me because it is something she constantly does
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 12:01 AM
Jan 2016

What does it say of her own integrity and her own self assurance that she regularly takes credit for far more than her share of anything. Just considering John Kerry, here is a list of her overstated claims

1) schip - where Kennedy was clearly the main guy, but Kerry and Hatch would clearly be the number two and three - in either order.

2) Afghanistan - in her book, it was HRC on the phone who persuaded Kharzi using her own experiences - JK was simply there.

3) Iran - already said

4) Syria's chemical weapons - where she calls Kerry's comment a gaffe, no credit, she told Obama to work with Putin after he responded to Kerry's gaffe.

5) Less clear, but she tried to morph the Copenhagen agreement into what pushed things fore=ward on climate change - where in fact, after Copenhagen, Obama thought things unlikely to happen in Paris - Kerry was behind the US/China pact that actually did lead to first Lima - then to Paris.

I seriously doubt that John Kerry is the only one she takes credit from.

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