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Τετάρτη 11 Ιουνίου 2014

ΚΙΝΗΣΕΙΣ ΤΗΣ ΚΛΙΝΤΟΝ ΕΠ’ ΑΦΟΡΜΗ ΤΗΣ ΚΥΚΛΟΦΟΡΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ ΑΥΤΟΒΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΑΣ ΤΗΣ (Μικρή συλλογή άρθρων)

Α)On eve of book tour, Hillary Clinton rejects blame for Benghazi and vows to fight back




On the eve of a cross-country book tour seen as her opening gambit in the 2016 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton rejected personal blame for the terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya, and resolved to fight back against Republican criticism of her handling of the assaults, which killed four Americans.

Under sharp and extended questioning during a one-hour special Monday night on ABC, the former secretary of state defended her role in the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks on U.S. outposts in Benghazi — and said she considers the unremitting GOP criticism an argument in favor of a campaign.“Actually, it’s more of a reason to run, because I do not believe our great country should be playing minor league ball,” Clinton told ABC News anchor Diane Sawyer. “We ought to be in the majors. I view this as really apart from — even a diversion from — the hard work that the Congress should be doing about the problems facing our country and the world.”

Clinton said there was nothing she could have done differently to prevent the attacks.

“I take responsibility, but I was not making security decisions,” she said. She added, “I’m not equipped to sit and look at blueprints, to determine where the blast walls need to be or where the reinforcements need to be.”

In the most wide-ranging interview since leaving the State Department in early 2013, Clinton presented herself as a resilient figure. She said that she has “moved on” from her husband’s affair with White House intern Monica S. Lewinsky and that she forgave him long ago. Asked whether she would repeat her famous 1990s quote about “a vast right-wing conspiracy,” she said she would not because “I don’t think we need more political combat in our country.”

Clinton said she failed in her 2008 campaign for president because she “didn’t plan it the right way,” adding that she was not effective at calling out what she considers a “double standard” for women in politics. If she runs again in 2016, Clinton said, she “would be working as hard as any underdog.”

To promote her new memoir, “Hard Choices,” which hits stores Tuesday, Clinton is traveling from coast to coast this month giving speeches, signing copies and sitting for network television interviews. The first was with Sawyer.

When Sawyer asked Clinton to detail a marquee accomplishment or signature doctrine as secretary, she gave no answer — an exchange her Republican critics immediately highlighted.

Clinton caused a political flap earlier Monday after ABC aired a portion of the interview in which Clinton said her family was “dead broke” upon leaving the White House in 2001 and “struggled” to pay their mortgages on two homes.

Republicans seized on the comments to argue that the Democrat — now a multimillionaire who charges $200,000 per speech — is out of touch with middle-class Americans. The episode is the latest reminder of the increasingly partisan aura that surrounds the former secretary of state as she gets closer to making a decision about 2016.

Sawyer asked Clinton about reports that she has made an estimated $5 million delivering speeches since she left the State Department last year and that Bill Clinton — who earned $200,000 annually during his eight years as president — has made more than $100 million since leaving the White House.

“We came out of the White House not only dead broke but in debt,” Clinton said. “We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea’s education. You know, it was not easy.”

Sawyer followed up with a reference to Hillary Clinton’s typical speaking fee of about $200,000. “Do you think Americans can understand five times the median income in this country for one speech?” she asked.

Clinton answered, “I thought making speeches for money was a much better thing than getting connected with any one group or company, as so many people who leave public life do.”

Her comments bore echoes of comments that caused political trouble for the past two Republican presidential nominees, both of whom were wealthy.

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus tweeted, “How out of touch is Hillary Clinton when ‘dead broke’ = mansions & massive speaking fees?” America Rising, the leading Republican super PAC attacking Clinton in the run-up to the campaign, posted pictures of the Clintons’ “multi-million dollar mansions” in Chappaqua, N.Y., and Washington on its Web site.

When the Clintons left the White House, they had accrued an enormous amount of legal debt, much of it owed to Bill Clinton’s attorneys during impeachment proceedings.

In 1999, the couple bought a house in Chappaqua to establish Hillary Clinton’s residency. in New York in advance of her 2000 Senate campaign. But they had so much debt that they needed a friend and campaign fundraiser, Terry McAuliffe — now the governor of Virginia — to put down $1.35 million as collateral on their $1.7 million loan.Soon enough, however, both Clintons cashed in. In December 2000, Hillary Clinton signed an $8 million advance to publish her first memoir, “Living History.” Bill Clinton hit the paid-speaking circuit and received a reported $15 million advance for his memoir, “My Life.”

By 2004, according to federal financial disclosure forms, the Clintons had paid off their debts. During the 2008 campaign, the Clintons released tax returns showing they had earned $109 million over eight years.
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Β)Ύμνοι της Χίλαρι για την Μέρκελ.




Απίστευτο θαυμασμό τρέφει για την καγκελάριο της Γερμανίας, Άνγκελα Μέρκελ η πρώην υπουργός Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ, Χίλαρι Κλίντον, όπως αποκαλύπτει στο βιβλίο της που κυκλοφορεί σήμερα.


Όπως αναφέρει η Χίλαρι Κλιντον, ο θαυμασμός που έτρεφε για την καγκελάριο Μέρκελ αυξήθηκε, όταν η ίδια υπηρετούσε στο Στέιτ Ντιπάρτμεντ.

Μέρκελ και Χίλαρι Κλίντον γνωρίστηκαν το 1994 στο Βερολίνο. Τότε, η Χίλαρι ήταν Πρώτη Κυρία και σύζυγος του προέδρου των ΗΠΑ Μπιλ Κλίντον και η Μέρκελ ήταν ανερχόμενη πολιτικός, εργαζόμενη στο γραφείο του τότε καγκελάριου Χέλμουτ Κολ.

«Η Μέρκελ είναι μια νεαρή γυναίκα που θα πάει μακριά» γράφει στο βιβλίο της για εκείνη την εποχή η Κλίντον, σημειώνοντας ότι οι δύο γυναίκες κράτησαν επαφή.Όταν η Μέρκελ εξελέγη καγκελάριος το 2005, η Κλίντον είπε ότι είναι «ενθαρρυντικό να βλέπεις την Άνγκελα να κινεί τα νήματα στην Ευρώπη».Αργότερα, όταν οι δύο γυναίκες συναντήθηκαν εκ νέου, η Κλίντον ήταν υπουργός Εξωτερικών των Ηνωμένων Πολιτειών και η Μέρκελ «ήταν καθοριστική, έξυπνη απλή, που πάντα έλεγε ακριβώς αυτό που είχε στο μυαλό της» όπως αναφέρει το βιβλίο. Η Χίλαρι Κλίντον γράφει ότι πέρασε πολύ χρόνο μιλώντας με τη Μέρκελ και τους άλλους Ευρωπαίους ηγέτες κατά τη διάρκεια της χρηματοπιστωτικής κρίσης. Είτε συμφωνείς με τη νομισματική πολιτική της είτε όχι, «ήταν αδύνατο να μην εντυπωσιαστείς από την ατσάλινη αποφασιστικότητα της» σημειώνει η πρώην επικεφαλής της αμερικανικής διπλωματίας. Στα τέσσερα χρόνια ως επικεφαλής της αμερικανικής διπλωματίας από το 2009 έως το 2013, η Χίλαρι Κλίντον επισκέφθηκε 112 χώρες και συναντήθηκε με όλους τους επιφανείς ηγέτες του κόσμου, ανάμεσά τους ο Νικολά Σαρκοζί και ο Βλάντιμιρ Πούτιν για τους οποίους η πρώην υπουργός Εξωτερικών των ΗΠΑ έχει ξεχωριστές αναφορές στο βιβλίο της.

Η Χίλαρι Κλίντον εν τω μεταξύ είναι πανταχού παρούσα στις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες αυτή την εβδομάδα για να προωθήσει το βιβλίο της σε μια "περιοδεία" που προσομοιάζει με την πιθανή απόφασή της να ανακοινώσει την επίσημη υποψηφιότητά της για το Λευκό Οίκο στις επερχόμενες εκλογές του 2016.



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