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Nice to know that someone out there felt the same way.
I listened to the Town Hall, too. . .and when she took credit for kick-starting the Iran deal (then, as you said, crediting Kerry only for what sounded, by her description, as minor last-minute clean-up work), I said to myself, Oh, God. She Really Went There. I was just fuming.
Yeah, the health care thing too. Teddy Kennedy played no role in this? Really?
And climate change. To be blunt, she deserves no credit for our progress in this area. The climate change talks, the initiatives to have US embassies across the world "walk the walk" on sustainability in their own practices, the connecting the dots at every turn between environmental and national security issues, this all happened on Kerry's watch, and because he has made these issues a priority not just at State, but during his entire career.
Yes (as you said down-thread), it is really a pattern. And running for President does not excuse her from giving credit where credit is due, or from claiming credit that one does not deserve.
And such a contrast to Sec. Kerry, who lavishly praises his team at State - by individual name- at every significant public moment, at every announcement of progress on the many, many courageous initiatives he's undertaken with persistence and creativity.
Real leaders, the best leaders, the most confident leaders, do not feel the need to claim credit that is not deserved. They are secure enough to be generous to others, and to acknowledge the good work of others. And they acknowledge that they have not achieved their success on their own.
Also, the question that directly asked her about a perceived weakness --and I personally agree that this is a weakness of hers-- that she's slow to acknowledge and apologize for missteps . In her answer, I didn't appreciate her once again blowing off the email thing with a practiced patter, and refusing to acknowledge even that it was an error in judgment, and just kept saying that it wasn't illegal. Hey, setting up a private email server to handle all SoS email was an error in judgment (to say the least), and she would have done herself a big favor by recognizing that before she set up her email that way in the first place, or at least admitting it as soon as the first problems arose. I keep ending up with a suspicion that, in fact, she does not understand to this day what was ethically questionable (and strategically stupid) about setting up her email this way. And that disturbs me most of all.
On that same note, she keeps saying how great it is that she's released all her email - not mentioning the unbelievable amount of extra work her missteps have caused the State Dept, which has been forced to dedicate special staff to collect, review and filter these emails. The number of man-hours involved must be staggering. No thank yous for this, but instead complaints that they're not working fast enough?
OK, I'm letting off steam, too.
I really, really want Sec. Kerry to get the Nobel Peace Prize. First of all, he deserves it. Second, I want to see him formally and publicly praised by the world for all that he has done. And, no, Sec. Clinton does not get to share that one.
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