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'''Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton''' (b. 1947), member of the [[Democratic Party]], former [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[New York]], and the 67th [[United States Secretary of State|Secretary of State of the United States]]. From 1993 to 2001 her husband, [[Bill Clinton]], was [[President of the United States]].  Hillary Clinton's job as [[Obama]]'s [[Secretary of State]] has been made the subject of a Congressional investigation after it had become evident that the deaths of four Americans during the Islamic terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in [[Benghazi]] could have been caused by incompetence or malfeasance on her part.<ref>Page, Susan (May 10, 2013).  [http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/05/09/senator-lindsey-graham-hillary-clinton-testify-benghazi-subpoena/2147869/ "Sen. Graham: Hillary Clinton should testify on Benghazi"].  ''USA Today'' website.</ref>
 
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She is an [[elitist]], [[liberal]], [[pro-abortion]] advocate, supports the death penalty, has yet to embrace same sex marriage publicly but does support civil unions, and supports federal funding for embryotic stem-cell research.
 
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In Hillary Clinton's and former President Bill Clinton's four-decade marriage, her husband has frequently been accused of being a serial adulterer.<ref>Multiple references:
 
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*Olson, Barbara (2001) [http://books.google.com/books?id=foWUM2R1K0wC&pg=PA211&lpg=PA211&dq=barbara+olson%22open+marriage%22&source=bl&ots=08qLt6ftjN&sig=njP7QlpBV08LenTCyo4KVx3JBEQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=htMZT4-UC-7CsQKitZTjCw&ved=0CCMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false ''Hell to Pay''] (Washington D. C.:  Regnery), p. 211.  Retrieved from GoogleBooks.
 
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*Wattenberg, Daniel (April 1994).  [http://search.opinionarchives.com/Summary/AmericanSpectator/V27I45P32-1.htm "Love and hate in Arkansas"], ''The American Spectator'', vol. 27, no. 25.  Reprinted at ''American Spectator'' website.  Archive subscription required.</ref>
 
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As a feminist and role model for young girls and women, Hillary Clinton lied for and covered up her husband's betrayal of trust.<ref>Clinton, Hillary (January 1998). [http://leany.com/Conspiracy/hillary_clinton_transcript.htm "Interview with Matt Lauer"].  Today Show television program, NBC.  Transcribed at Leany.com.</ref>
 
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Clinton is considered by many commentators to be the leading candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States in 2016.
 
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==Early life==
 
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Hillary Diane Rodham was born October 26, 1947, in Chicago, [[Illinois]] to Hugh Rodham and Dorothy Emma Howell Rodham.  Hugh was from a Pennsylvania family of coal miners, but decided on higher education and graduated from Penn State University before moving to Chicago and becoming prosperous as a merchant.  He also voted Republican and was known as a martinet.  Hillary grew up in the upscale Chicago suburb of Park Ridge with two younger brothers, Hugh Jr. (born 1950) and Anthony (born 1954).  Hillary attended Maine East High School, where she was involved in many extracurricular activities; was active in the Methodist church, and worked for Republican campaigns as a Goldwater Girl.  In her memoirs Hillary Clinton described herself in 1964 as "an active Young Republican" and "a [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]] girl, right down to my cowgirl outfit." Columnist [[Robert Novak]] observed, "As a politically attuned honor student, she must have known that Goldwater was one of only six Republican senators who joined [[Solid South|Southern Democratic]] [[segregation]]ists opposing the historic [[Voting Rights Act|voting rights act of 1964]] inspired by King."<ref>Novak, Robert D. (March 12, 2007). [http://townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/2007/03/12/hillary,_king_and_goldwater "Hillary, King and Goldwater"].  Townhall.com website/Columnists.  See [[Townhall.com]].</ref>
 
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As a tenth-grader, she heard the Rev. [[Martin Luther King]] speak in person, and years later she remarked in a speech "As a young girl I had the great privilege of hearing [[Martin Luther King|Dr. King]] speak in Chicago. The year was 1963....[Dr. King] called on us, he challenged us that evening to stay awake during the great revolution that the [[civil rights]] pioneers were waging on behalf of a more perfect union."<ref>Sweet, Lynn (March 6, 2007). [http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2007/03/clintons_selma_speech_text.html "Clinton's Selma speech.  Text as delivered"].  ''Chicago Sun-Times'' website/Lynn Sweet Blog.</ref>  In the eleventh grade, she was class vice-president, and she was in the top 5% of her class when she graduated in 1965. 
 
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Hillary Rodham then entered Wellesley College, an elite woman's college near Boston, and seemingly a Republican activist.  During the summer of 1968, she participated in Wellesley's Washington Internship Program where she worked as an intern in the office of [[Melvin Laird]], then a congressman from Wisconsin, and attended the Republican convention in Miami as a [[Nelson Rockefeller]] supporter; Rockefeller would eventually lose the nomination to [[Richard Nixon]].  She was the commencement speaker at her graduation from Wellesley in 1969, during which she argued forcefully against the war in Vietnam and said, "And the challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible." In her speech, she also acknowledged the influence of her roomate and friend Eleanor D. Acheson in helping Hillary become the first student in Wellesley College history to deliver its commencement address.<ref name="WesleyHillary">{{Cite web
 
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|accessdate=June 30, 2011}}</ref>—the granddaughter of President [[Harry Truman|Harry Truman’s]] secretary of state [[Dean Acheson]]—is credited for having introduced the young Hillary to political circles.
 
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====Saul Alinsky====
 
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[[File:Hillary letter1.png|right|200px|thumb|Letter by Hillary Rodham dated 1971, sent to community organizer and leftist radical Saul Alinsky.]]
 
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By 1968 Rodham had abandoned her Republicanism in favor of liberalism, and in June 1969, she appeared in ''Life'' magazine, having written a statement advancing a cause of leftist politics and activism<ref>Cosgrove, Ben (February 15, 2014).  [http://time.com/3502935/life-with-hillary-portraits-of-a-wellesley-grad-1969/ "LIFE with Hillary: Portraits of a Wellesley grad, 1969, photograph 15"]. ''Time'' magazine website/Life/Photography.</ref>.  She also embraced a book, ''Reveille for Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1946). [http://www.historyofsocialwork.org/1946_Alinsky/1946%20-%20Saul%20Alinsky%20-%20Reveille%20for%20Radicals.pdf ''Reveille for Radicals''] (Chicago:  University of Chicago Press).</ref>, a work originally written in 1946 by a former archaeologist and full-time communist, Saul Alinsky, who in his book taught how to organize a community to the point where the "have-nots" (the poor) take from the "haves" (the middle-classes and rich), and she admitted that she had read it many times before her first of several meetings with him. 
 
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In a letter written in 1971, Rodham had asked Alinsky when his new book, ''Rules For Radicals'' was going to be published:
 
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''Rules For Radicals''<ref>Alinsky, Saul (1971).  [https://archive.org/details/RulesForRadicals ''Rules for Radicals''] (New York: Random House).  Archived at Internet Archive.</ref> outlined twelve basic rules<ref>Ibid, [http://www.bestofbeck.com/wp/activism/saul-alinskys-12-rules-for-radicals "12 rules for radicals" (excerpt)].  Reprinted at Best of Beck website/Activism.</ref> for overthrowing a government, and Rodham read it voraciously.  Alinsky's methods included "demonizing" and "ridiculing" the opposition, using the expertise of poor as a weapon, and using lies and innuendo to their fullest advantage.  Alinsky wrote:
 
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:''"A Marxist begins with his prime truth that all evils are caused by the exploitation of the proletariat by the capitalists. From this he logically proceeds to the revolution to end capitalism, then into the third stage of reorganization into a new social order of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and finally the last stage—the political paradise of communism...An organizer working in and for an open society is in an ideological dilemma to begin with, he does not have a fixed truth—truth to him is relative and changing; everything to him is relative and changing.... To the extent that he is free from the shackles of dogma, he can respond to the realities of the widely different situations...."''<ref>Ibid., pp. 10-11.</ref>
 
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In her 1969 thesis entitled "There Is Only The Fight"<ref>Clinton, Hillary (1969). [https://nukegingrich.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/hillaryclintonthesis.pdf "There is only the fight" (Political science B.A. senior honors thesis)] (Wellesley MA:  Wellesley College).  Reprinted at Nuke's N2l's.  Copyrighted material, for fair educational use only.</ref> she praised Alinsky and his methods for community organizing:
 
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:''"His are the words used in our schools and churches, by our parents and their friends, by our peers. The difference is that Alinsky really believes in them...Alinsky is regarded by many as the proponent of a dangerous socio/political philosophy. As such, he has been feared — just as Eugene Debs or Walt Whitman or Martin Luther King has been feared, because each embraced the most radical of political faiths — democracy.''" <ref>Ibid, p. 6, 74.</ref>
 
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Alinsky died in 1972, a short time after ''Rules For Radicals'' was published.  Later on, at the behest of the Clinton White House, Rodham's thesis would be hidden, obtainable to a select few, and it would be in 2005 that it would be uncovered, despite being hidden by the college at Clinton's request<ref>Noonan, Peggy (June 23, 2005).  [http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122487008765067079 "Eine Kleine Biographie"].  ''The Wall Street Journal'' website.</ref>.  The two things that became clear in the following years was the fact that Hillary Rodham Clinton was solidly on the left, using the Alinsky method of overthrowing the Constitutional system of the United States, as well as going to any length to conceal her radicalism—and the lies of others within the Democratic Party—from the public.<ref>Multiple references:
 
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*Poe, Richard (January 13, 2008).  [http://rense.com/general80/fon.htm "Hillary, Obama and the cult of Alinsky"].  Rense.com website.
 
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*Chait, Jonathan (September 22, 2014). [http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/09/saul-alinsky-secretly-controls-hillary-too.html "Saul Alinsky secretly controls Hillary Clinton too"].  ''NYMag'' website/Daily intelligencer/The national interest.</ref>
 
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==Early Career==
 
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In 1969, she attended Yale law school, where she was one of only 27 women among 235 law students.  On May 7, 1970, she addressed the League of Women Voters in Washington, a sign of her growing prominence.  Always active in campus politics, she ended up becoming something of a communications facilitator, as she had been at Wellesley, between potentially radical student elements and the college administration during the era of extreme student unrest in 1970.  She was written up on hometown and New England newspapers, and was interviewed on Irv Kupcinet's nationally syndicated TV talk show from Chicago.  That summer, she worked in Washington for Marian Wright Edelman's Washington Research Project, where she conducted research on migrant children's health and education difficulties, especially in the South.  Her subsequent studies at Yale were concentrated on how the law affected children.  At Yale in 1971, she met Bill Clinton, her future husband, also a law student at Yale.
 
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She graduated from Yale Law School (JD 1973) a year later than necessary, having remained an extra year to be near Bill. As a staff attorney for the Children's Defense Fund, she specialized in children's advocacy law.  She married Bill on October 11, 1975; daughter Chelsea was born in 1980.
 
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As her husband built a political career in [[Arkansas]] as governor, she was a partner in the locally prestigious Rose Law Firm, 1976-1992.  Nationally she continued her legal advocacy for children and chaired the American Bar Association's Commission on Women in the Profession, which played a pioneering role in raising awareness of issues like sexual harassment and equal pay.
 
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During the 1970s and '80s, the Clintons invested in the [[Whitewater]] Development Corporation which later became the subject of a federal investigation, prosecutions and convictions. Jim and Susan McDougal, and then-Arkansas Governor Jim Guy Tucker were convicted of multiple counts of financial fraud, even though President Clinton testified for four hours for the defense.<ref>William J. Clinton (April 28, 1996). [http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/clintondepo.html "Transcript of President Clinton's video deposition"].  Reprinted at "Once upon a time in Arkansas" (October 1997). ''Frontline'' (PBS website/WGBH).</ref>
 
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On the evening Bill Clinton lost his bid for a Congressional seat in 1974, Hillary is reported to have cursed out a Jewish aide using nasty words.<ref>Oppenheimer, Jerry (2000). ''State of a union: Inside the complex marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton'' (New York, NY:  HarperCollins) cites three witnesses to the incident.</ref>
 
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Hillary Clinton was appointed by President [[Jimmy Carter]] to head the controversial [[Public defender|Legal Services Corporation]] (LSC) in 1978 and remained on the Board until 1983. <ref>Boehm, Kenneth F. (February 28, 2002).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20080617132548/http://www.nlpc.org/view.asp?action=viewArticle&aid=225 "Thwarting the will of Congress: How the Legal Services Corporation evaded, diluted, and ignored reform, testimony of Kenneth F. Boehm before the Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law, House Judiciary Committee, U. S. Congress"].  National Legal and Policy Center website.  Retrieved from June 17, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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Under Hillary Clinton's leadership, the LSC began moving away from its legislated task of providing poor people with free lawyers and began an [[activist]] agenda to influence [[public policy]] through [[class action]] lawsuits. One case involved bringing lawsuits to force New York's Transit Authority to hire [[heroin]] addicts. The LSC also violated its own rules by organizing political campaigns against a state referendum and against [[Ronald Reagan]].<ref>Barone, Michael (July 8, 1999). [http://www.jewishworldreview.com/michael/barone070899.asp "Taking Hillary seriously"]. ''Jewish World Review'' website.</ref>
 
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Clinton failed the District of Columbia [[Bar Exam]] in the 1970s.<ref>Millican, Julie (June 1, 2007).  [http://mediamatters.org/items/200706010006 "On Today, Bernstein omitted key fact in purported disclosure of Clinton's D.C. bar exam failure: It's not news"].  MediaMatters for America website/Research.  Retrieved October 4, 2007.  See [[MediaMatters]]</ref>
 
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''The Hill'' magazine reported Hillary Clinton may have been involved in [[civil rights]] violations by monitoring illegal wiretaps and domestic spying on political opponents during the 1992 camapaign.<ref name=ABolton>Bolton, Alexander (October 16, 2007).  [http://thehill.com/homenews/news/13354-gop-targeting-clinton-on-phone-call-snooping "GOP targeting Clinton on phone-call snooping"].  ''The Hill'' website/News.</ref>  After the revelations came to light in a book entitled, ''Her Way''<ref>Gerth, Jeff and Van Natta, Don, Jr. (2007). [http://www.amazon.com/Her-Way-Ambitions-Hillary-Clinton/dp/0316017426 "Her way: The hopes and ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton"] (New York, NY: Little, Brown and Co.)  Book page at Amazon.com website.</ref> by Don Van Natta Jr., an investigative reporter at the ''[[New York Times]]'', and Jeff Gerth, who spent 30 years as an investigative reporter at the paper, a [[Republican]] official remarked,
 
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During [[Bill Clinton]]'s presidency, Hillary initially played an important role. Immediately after his [[inauguration]] in 1993, she led a task force to create a national health care system.  The secrecy of the Task Force was at issue in court cases which resulted in disclosures to comply with the law.
 
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Her friend [[Vince Foster]] supervised the defense of the litigation, but died under mysterious circumstances at the height of the controversy; the death was ruled a suicide by the U.S Park Service. The Task Force proposals lacked public support and support from the Democrats in Congress, and came to nothing but an embarrassment for the Clinton presidency.
 
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Subsequently, the Republicans won a landslide victory in 1994, taking over both Houses of Congress.
 
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Hillary was asked by her husband to play a central role in secretly crafting a plan to overhaul Health Care. Joe Klein. author of ''Primary Colors'', the fawning rendition of the phenomena of Clintonism on the 1992 campaign trail remarked,
 
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Democrats were divided, and conservatives counterattacked. The Democratically controlled Congress refused to even vote on it, given its unpopularity and having to publicly take a stand in support of the Clintons before the 1994 Midterm Elections.
 
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The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), along with several other groups, filed a lawsuit over closed-door meetings related to the HillaryCare.  The AAPS sued to gain access to the list of members of the task force which the Clinton administration had kept secret from the public.<ref>Flaherty, Peter (March 18, 2015) [http://nlpc.org/stories/2015/03/18/heath-care-task-force-showed-secrecy-nothing-new-hillary "Health care task force showed Hillary's penchant for secrecy"].  National Legal Policy Center website/Government integrity project.</ref> On June 14, 1993 the ''Washington Times'' reported Hillary's task force records were being shredded.
 
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Along with the failed task force's membership being sealed from the public, so was its budget, accounting, and spending authority. Hillary's task force was given a budget of $100,000. In secret, it spent almost $14 million.<ref>[http://gao.justia.com/department-of-justice/1995/3/cost-of-health-care-task-force-related-activities-t-ggd-95-114/ ''Cost of Health Care Task Force Related Activities''] (March 14, 1995) (Washington D.C.: GPO), GAO Report. Gao ID: T-GGD-95-114.  Retrieved from Justia website/GAO/Department of Justice reports.</ref>
 
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The long-term impact was an embarrassment to Hillary, especially in her 2008 presidential campaign.
 
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After the death of White House staffer Vince Foster, 20 year Secret Service veteran Henry O' Neill testified before Congress he observed as Hillary Clinton's chief of staff, Margaret Williams, carry boxes of papers out of Foster's office and up to the White House residence quarters on First Lady Hillary Clinton's instructions. The documents related to the Clinton's blind trust and White House real estate investments. Under oath, Hillary Clinton denied issuing the instructions or receiving the documents. The documents were now considered evidence in the investigation of the death of Vince Foster.
 
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Two years later, some of the documents were retrieved from the private White House quarters. FBI investigators determined Hillary Clinton's fingerprints were on the documents.<ref>Multiple references:
 
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*[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1996-05-10/pdf/CREC-1996-05-10-pt1-PgH4880-3.pdf#page=1 "Remarks by Congressman (Dan) Burton of Indiana: Mrs. Clinton's fingerprints on billing records II"] (May 10, 1996).  ''Congressional Record'' (Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office), House of Representatives, 104th Congress, pp. H4880-1.</ref>
 
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[[File:Hillary-5.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hillary made a pointed reference to "a vast right-wing conspiracy" as being responsible for her husbands infidelity and the myriad scandals which have plagued the Clintons since their early days in Arkansas.]]
 
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Hillary Clinton branded opponents of the Administration and critics of the Clinton's scandalous lifestyles as "a vast right-wing conspiracy."  White House staffers made up an enemies list of persons and organizations who subsequently endured IRS audits and harassment.<ref>Klayman, Larry (July 1999). [http://web.archive.org/web/19991007035755/http://www.liberty.edu/chancellor/nlj/July1999/Coverstory2.htm "Clinton uses IRS to punish critics"]. ''National Liberty Journal''.  Reprinted at Liberty University website/National Liberty Journal online.  Retrieved from October 7, 1999 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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Clinton likewise mocked stay-at-home-moms for baking cookies while she was employed at a "high powered" law firm making more money than her husband. She was lauded by liberal media and pundits as "a strong woman."
 
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In the end, when confronted with the infidelity of her husband, she blamed "a vast right-wing conspiracy" and stood by her man.
 
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'Why didn’t you leave the White House when you found out about the cheating of your husband?'
 
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Gaddafi's daughter Aisha Gaddafi.<ref>[http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1381198/Libya-war-2011-Aisha-Gaddafi-taunts-Obama-Hillary-Clinton.html#ixzz1Q2ALmYp2 "Gaddafi's daughter taunts Obama and Hillary Clinton and says: 'You never know when a rocket or a bomb might hit you'"] (April 28, 2011).  DailyMail.com [U.K.] website/News.</ref>
 
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When the Clintons left the White House, they were accused of taking furniture that belonged not to them, but to the White House and the American people. Clinton spokespeople claimed that the movers "inadvertently" packed the wrong items.  Most of the articles were quietly returned. <ref>Lardner, George, Jr. (February 10, 2001).  "Clinton shipped furniture year ago".  ''Washington Post'', p. A1.</ref>
 
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In 2000, Clinton ran for the New York Senate seat vacated by the [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] Senator [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]]. Backed by the White House, she obtained the Democratic nomination for this Senate seat, and then won easily against Republican [[Rick Lazio]] (who entered the race when [[Rudy Giuliani]] withdrew). Clinton was a high visibility show horse, working to develop a base in upstate regions. She initiated no major legislation.<ref>"The week—Hillary Clinton's spending of taxpayer money, other news from around the world" (April 22, 2002).  ''National Review''.  See [[National Review]].</ref>  Clinton is said to have belonged to a conservative prayer group with the purpose of "bringing Jesus back to Capitol Hill."<ref>Joyce, Kathryn and Sharlet, Jeff (September 1, 2007).  [http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/09/hillarys-prayer.html "Hillary's prayer: Hillary Clinton's religion and politics"].  ''Mother Jones'' website.</ref> A few of her collaborators in the group include Senator [[Sam Brownback]] (R-Kan) and Senator [[Rick Santorum]] (R-Pa).
 
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In preparation for her Senate bid, President Clinton offered clemency to members of the [[Armed Forces of National Liberation]] (FALN) [[terrorist]] group  <ref>Multiple references:
 
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*U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary (September 15, 1999). [http://web.archive.org/web/20000416225221/http://www.senate.gov/~judiciary/wl91599.htm "Witness list (and transcribed statements): Hearing before the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary, 'Clemency for FALN Members'"].  U.S. Senate website/Committee on the Judiciary.  Retrieved from April 16, 2000 archive at Internet Archive.
 
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*U.S. Senate, 106th Congress (September 14, 1999).  [http://www.congress.gov/bill/106th-congress/senate-joint-resolution/33 "S.J. Res. 106-33: A joint resolution deploring the actions of President Clinton regarding granting clemency to FALN terrorists."] U.S. Congress website/Legislation/106th Congress/Senate joint resolutions.  Passed 95-2.</ref> to curry favor with [[radical]] [[Puerto Rican]] voters among the New York electorate.<ref>[http://www.jonathanpollard.org/senate.htm "FALN clemency and NY Senate race"] (1999-2009). Justice for Jonathan Pollard website.</ref>  The FALN bombed Fraunces Tavern in [[Manhattan]], killing four people in 1975. Over a six-year period, the group claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings that took six lives and injured some 130 people.<ref>[http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/puertorico/sep4.htm "Clinton pardons terror"] (August 13, 1999). ''New York Post''.  Reprinted at Latin American Studies website.</ref> 
 
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===FEC fined campaign for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions===
 
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In January 2006 Hillary Clinton's New York Senate 2000 campaign was fined $35,000 for failing to accurately report $721,895 in contributions.<ref>[http://www.fec.gov/press/press2006/20060126mur.html "Press release, Matter under review 5225"] (January 26, 2006).  Federal Election Commission website.</ref>
 
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===Claimed Saddam Hussein had WMD===
 
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[[File:Hillary-4.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Among Democrats, Hillary Clinton's views on Iraq were highly regarded, including accounting for Saddam's WMD. ]]
 
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Speaking on [[Saddam Hussein]]'s possession of [[weapons of mass destruction]] (WMD), Hillary invoked her experience in the Clinton White House:,
 
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{{Cquote|I have to say that this is something that I have followed for a decade.  If he [Saddam] were serious about disarming, he would have been much more forthcoming.  There may be progress, we may be destroying his missiles, there is no accounting for the [[Weapons of mass destruction|chemical and biological stocks]].<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtK9AzcU42g "Hillary Clinton talks about her vote to go to war, Saddam, and WMDs (March 6, 2003)"] (February 2, 2011). YouTube video, 15:21, posted by Kirsten Michel.</ref>}}
 
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Hillary Clinton further described the situation after weapons inspectors we're expelled during the time when America had two in the position of presidential leadership, "for the price of one."<ref>Krauthammer, Charles (November 2, 2007). [http://www.townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2007/11/02/two_for_the_price_of_one "Two for the price of one"].  Townhall.com website.</ref>
 
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{{Cquote|In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his [[nuclear]] program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to [[terrorist]]s, including [[al Qaeda]] members ... It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons.<ref>Clinton, Sen. Hillary (October 10, 2002).  Quoted by Frank, Joshua (October 11, 2004).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20080415143705/http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=6390 "Democrats and WMD"]. Znet website. Retrieved from April 15, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>}}
 
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===Supported DOMA and opposed gay marriage===
 
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Candidate Clinton said in January 2000 that marriage does not include gay unions,
 
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{{Cquote|Marriage has got historic, religious and moral content that goes back to the beginning of time and I think a marriage is as a marriage has always been, between a man and a woman.}} Clinton said as a Senator she would have voted for the 1996 [[Defense of Marriage Act]], portions of which the Supreme Court struck down in 2012.  By 2013, in typical Clintonian fashion, Clinton apologists began pushing the "she's evolved" narrative rather than criticize the naked hypocrisy.
 
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===Failure to reform earmarks===
 
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The noted newspaper which covers legislative affairs, ''The Hill'', reported Hillary Clinton received more [[earmark]]s for Congressional [[pork barrel]] projects than only one other United States Senator.  Reforming the earmark process had been among the Democrats top priorities in the [[110th Congress]], up until the time Democrats voted to rescind the rules aimed at reform that were passed in the first 100 hours of the new Congress in January.  Ethics reform and the earmark process is widely attributed as the cause why Republicans lost control of both Houses of Congress after several members had been caught up in ethical scandals.  ''The Hill'' reported Sen. Clinton received 26 earmarks worth about $148.4 million total, much going to [[The Pentagon|Pentagon]] contractors.<ref>Tiron, Roxana and Wurman, Ilan (June 13, 2007).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20081211151216/http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-can-boast-wealth-of-earmarks-2007-06-13.html "Clinton can boast wealth of earmarks"].  The Hill website/Leading the news.  Retrieved from December 11, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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===Voted against paying troops and raising the minimum wage===
 
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After voting to send troops to Iraq Hillary Clinton voted against funding the troops in Iraq. In May of 2007 Clinton voted against raising the minimum wage.<ref>[http://votesmart.org/bill/4163/12952/55463/emergency-departmental-supplemental-appropriations-bill-of-2007#.ViKDuvlVhBc "HR 2206 - Emergency Departmental Supplemental Appropriations Bill of 2007/National key votes"] (2012 or bef.) Vote Smart website.  Location of defense funding section in bill: "Title [section] 1 [of 10]: Supplemental Appropriations for Defense, International Affairs, and Other Security-Related Needs".  Minimum wage section in bill:  "Title [section] 8 [of 10]: Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007".  Bill became Public Law No. 110-28 on May 25, 2007.</ref>
 
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== 2008 Presidential campaign ==
 
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[[File:Aufzumsieg.jpg|right|200px|thumb|Hillary as the universally acclaimed presidential frontrunner and titular head of the Democratic party in 2007.]]
 
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The much ballyhooed presumptive nominee and "inevitable" general election winner according to her media allies as the [[United States Presidential Election, 2008 - Primaries|2008 Democratic presidential primaries]] approached, Hillary Clinton finished a dismal third in a Democratic field of three in the Iowa Caucuses.<ref>Obama won Iowa with 37.6 percent of the vote; [[John Edwards]] edged out Clinton for second 29.7 - 29.5 percent. </ref> On June 7th, 2008 she conceded defeat to [[Barack Obama]] although she did not release her delegates until the convention itself.
 
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===Attacks on Barack Obama===
 
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A pro-Hillary website, Stop-Obama, which billed itself as "a multiracial team of Democrats dedicated to critically think about BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA...will challenge the Obama image through scrutiny and analysis. We will ask tough questions about Obama’s past, present, his associations, and identity."<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20080703230410/http://www.stop-obama.org/?page_id=23 "Mission"] (April 2008 or bef.) Stop-Obama website. Retrieved from July 3, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> The group stated,
 
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{{quotebox|Obama had the misfortune of rich grandparents who lavishly spent their time and money on him, pampering him with attention and prep-school. Far from thanks, Obama grew resentful, and instead of softening his drive to “Rule the World,” only increased it. As his relatives and colleagues witness, it would come to define his life.<ref>Chang, Gregory (February 22, 2008). [http://web.archive.org/web/20120718085224/http://www.stop-obama.org/?p=48 "Obama a dream come true, part II: Ruling the world"].  Stop-Obama website.  Retrieved from July 18, 2012 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>}}
 
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Hillary regularly relied upon the so-called "opposition research"<ref>Kuhner, Jeffrey Thomas (January 30, 2007). [http://www.jeffkuhner.com/printer.php?q=jk-7895-phpgzkqyx-&page=articles "Distortions and lies at ''The New York Times''"].  ''Insight'' magazine website.  Reprinted at Jeffrey T. Kuhner website on January 31, 2007.</ref> of the same sources from the group to attack and denigrate the person, character, identity, and motives of Barack Obama.<ref>Multiple references:
 
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*Clinton, Hillary (December 2, 2007).  [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=92143 "Press Release—Sen. Obama rewrites history, claims he hasn't been planning White House run"].  Reprinted at Peters, Gerhard and Woolley, John T. (2013 or bef.)  University of California at Santa Barbara website/The American Presidency Project/Public papers.
 
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*McQuain, Bruce (January 23, 2007).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20140811113346/http://qando.net/details.aspx?Entry=5300 "Those 3 layers of editors do it again (updated)"].  The QandO blog website.  Retrieved from August 11, 2014 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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===Promises made, promises broken===
 
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In late August 2007 Senator [[Bill Nelson]] and other members of Florida's Congressional delegation protested the Democratic National Committee's scheme<ref name=Madkour>Madkour, Rasha (August 23, 2007).  [http://jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/082307/D8R6VI580.shtml "Fla. Democrats warn of voting rights probe if state sanctioned"].  Associated Press.  Reprinted at Jacksonville.com website.</ref> to deprive Floridians of equal voting rights protection<ref name=Madkour/> in selection of delegates to the 2008 DNC Presidential nominating convention.  A letter sent to DNC Chairman [[Howard Dean]], threatened legal action "to determine whether this could violate any state or [[federal law]]s governing and protecting individual [[Voting Rights Act|voting rights]].... It always has been a priority of our party to protect the rights of every eligible American to vote...We would hope the DNC will continue to honor this right."<ref>Nelson, Sen. Bill (August 22, 2007). [http://web.archive.org/web/20080225141347/http://www.nelsonforsenate.com/feature/dean/ "Letter from Florida Congressional Democrats to DNC chairman Howard Dean"]. Bill Nelson for Senate website.  Retrieved from February 25, 2008 archive at Internet Archive.</ref> The move prompted Hillary Clinton to pledge not to campaign in Florida.<ref>Zeeleny, Jeff (September 2, 2007).  [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/us/politics/02dems.html?ex=1346472000&en=d7f7216c6188da2e&ei=5124&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink "Clinton, Obama and Edwards join pledge to avoid defiant states"]. ''New York Times'' website/U.S./Politics.</ref> A week later she was campaigning in Florida.<ref>Eby, Charlotte (September 11, 2007).  [http://siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/candidates-have-events-in-florida-despite-pledge/article_d8d01caf-b5bf-5eaf-901a-8f4ace162d85.html "Candidates have events in Florida despite pledge"]. ''Sioux City Journal'' website.</ref>
 
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===Abuse of Mother Teresa's image and reputation===
 
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Hillary Clinton was chastised by a [[Catholic]] Advocacy group for using an image of [[Mother Teresa]] in a campaign ad.  Clinton continues to support abortion. <ref>Catholic News Agency (May 18, 2007).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20071220074024/http://www.fidelis.org/gw3/articles-news/articles.php?CMSArticleID=1456&CMSCategoryID=10 "Fidelis covered by Catholic News Agency on Mother Teresa video controversy"].  Fidelis website.  Retrieved from December 20, 2007 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>  The U.S. Catholic-based advocacy group Fidelis, an organization working with people of faith to defend the [[sanctity of life]], [[traditional marriage]], and [[Religious freedom|religious liberty]] rights, called for Hillary Clinton to remove the image of Mother Teresa from their campaign video.  In a press release the group declared the video, narrated by her Bill Clinton,
 
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{{Cquote|is wholly inappropriate, disrespectful and disturbing ...using an image of blessed Mother Teresa as a political tool, especially given their [[radical]]ly different views on abortion...Mother Teresa tirelessly fought to protect unborn children, while Hillary Clinton staunchly supports [[abortion]] on demand in all nine months of pregnancy, including [[partial birth abortion]] and [[taxpayer funding of abortion]]}}
 
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When the image of Hillary and Mother Teresa appears in the video the former president is heard saying “Hillary, in effect, was the face of America … in India;”  the video then cuts to a clip of the former first lady addressing the 1995 Beijing Conference where an effort was made to declare abortion a fundamental “human right.”
 
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Barbara Olson in her 1999 book ''Hell to Pay'' <ref>Olson, Barbara (1999). [http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0895262746/102-6782111-3076127?SubscriptionId=11NRD61HE570TCSR99R2 ''Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton''] (Washington D.C.: Regnery Publishing).  Amazon book page.</ref> made a convincing case that the former Goldwater girl, raised in a  Republican home, while working for the staff of the House Judiciary Committee preparing impeachment Articles against [[President Nixon]], studied Nixon very closely.  Olson and others have now commented how Hillary Clinton built her political career by learning to think and act as Nixon did, and modeling herself after him.  These writers cite instance after instance of such behavior. <ref>Poe, Richard (July 6, 2005). [http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=45138 "The plan to silence internet journalists" (excerpt of ''Hillary's Secret War'')].  WorldNetDaily website/Hillary's Secret War</ref>  When Democratic competitor [[Barack Obama]] made a public statement vowing not to use [[nuclear weapons]], Hillary Clinton shot back,
 
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{{Cquote|I don't believe that any president should make any blanket statements with respect to the use or nonuse of nuclear weapons}} reflecting Nixon's thoughts in ''The Real War'' :
 
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{{Cquote|[[Eisenhower]] said... "You should never let the enemy know what you will do, but it's more important that you never let the enemy know what you will not do." }}
 
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{{Cquote|... statements that appear to rule out the use of force, while perhaps meant to be unprovocative, will in fact provoke an antagonist to push for more. ...we should not make statements that we will never launch a preemptive strike. Whether or not we would ever exercise that option, we should always leave open the possibility that in extreme circumstances we might. <ref>Nixon, Richard M. (May 1980). [http://nobsnews.blogspot.com/1996/10/real-war.html#hole_card ''The Real War''] (New York:  Warner Books), pp. 253-60.  Excerpt reprinted at Nobs blog website/The Real War/The "hole card" on October 23, 1996.</ref>}}
 
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===Alleged embellishment of career events===
 
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[[Peggy Noonan]] observed Hillary Clinton's distortions of her record on the campaign trail:
 
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{{quotebox|She is having the worst case of [[cognitive dissonance]] in the history of modern politics. She cannot come up with a credible, realistic path to the nomination. ... But she is a scrapper, a fighter, and she's doing what she knows how to do: scrap and fight. Only harder. So that she ups the ante every day. She helped Ireland achieve peace. She tried to stop NAFTA. She's been a leader for 35 years. She landed in Bosnia under siege and bravely dodged bullets. It was as if she'd watched the movie ''Wag the Dog,'' with its fake footage of a terrified refugee woman running frantically from mortar fire, and found it not a cautionary tale about manipulation and politics, but an inspiration. <ref>Noonan, Peggy (March 28, 2008). [http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB120663639483768965 "Getting Mrs. Clinton"]. ''The Wall Street Journal'' website.</ref>}}
 
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===PolitiFact Awards===
 
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Hillary received a "Pants on Fire" award from [[PolitiFact]] for saying Obama "basically threatened to bomb Pakistan."<ref>Adair, Bill (February 27, 2008). [http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/375/ "Et tu, Clinton?"].  Politifact website.</ref>
 
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==Secretary of State==
 
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On 1 December 2008 Obama announced the appointment of Hillary Clinton as [[Secretary of State]], succeeding [[Condoleezza Rice]] in January 2009.
 
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Clinton's first assignment was to travel to [[China]] and convince them to purchase [[U.S. Treasury]] obligations to finance Obama’s  [[stimulus]] package.<ref>AFP (February 22, 2009).  [http://www.warandpeace.ru/en/news/view/32887/ "Clinton wraps Asia trip by asking China to buy US debt"]. Reprinted at War and Peace website.</ref>  The veto-proof Democratic Congress voted to add $4.5 trillion to the [[national debt]] for "jobs creation" which, by the end of her tenure four years later, added a paltry 1.3 million jobs.<ref>Total Nonfarm Payrolls of All Employees in the United States stood at 133,977,000 in January of 2009; by January of 2013 when Clinton left office the number stood at 135,293,000, an increase of 1,316,000 jobs, or a cost of $3.4 million ''per job''. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.</ref>  Clinton told Chinese leaders that the [[Obama administration]] considered [[human rights]] secondary to economic well-being.<ref>[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/4735087/Hillary-Clinton-Chinese-human-rights-secondary-to-economic-survival.html Hillary Clinton: Chinese human rights secondary to economic survival,] Richard Spencer, ''London Telegraph,'' 20 Feb 2009.</ref>
 
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:''See also [[Libyan War]] and [[Benghazi attack]]''
 
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[[File:Hillary-3.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Upon hearing the news of Gaddafi's murder, Sec. Clinton joked, "We Came, We Saw, He Died."]]
 
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Obama Takes Hard Line With Libya After Shift by Clinton: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton found herself juggling the inconsistencies of American foreign policy in a turbulent Middle East. She criticized the foreign minister of the [[United Arab Emirates]] for sending troops to quash protests in Bahrain even as she pressed him to send planes to intervene in Libya. She was the driving force behind the United States military action in Libya (It is said on March 14 she met in Paris with members of the Libyan [[jihad]]is and [[Bernard Henri Levy]]). Mrs. Clinton was one of a handful of top administration aides who had been arguing for intervention. Within hours, Mrs. Clinton and the aides had convinced Obama that the United States had to act, and the president ordered up military plans, which Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, hand-delivered to the White House the next day. On Thursday (March 17), during an hour-and-a-half meeting, Obama signed off on using American pilots to join Europeans and jihadists in military strikes against the Libyan government... The president had a caveat, though. The American involvement in military action in Libya should be limited — no ground troops — and finite. “Days, not weeks,” a senior White House official recalled him saying.<ref name=Cooper>Cooper, Helene and Myers, Steven Lee (March 18, 2011).  [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/world/africa/19policy.html?_r=2&hp "Shift by Clinton helped persuade President to take a harder line"].  ''New York Times'', p. A1, reprinted at ''New York Times'' website.</ref>
 
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On March 17, in Tunisia, Hillary said: ''"Gaddafi must go," calling him "a ruthless dictator that has no conscience and will destroy anyone or anything in his way." "If Gaddafi does not go, he will just make trouble," she said. "That is just his nature. There are some creatures that are like that."''<ref>Associated Press (March 17, 2011).  [http://web.archive.org/web/20131105095520/http://www.aolnews.com/2011/03/17/hillary-clinton-in-tunisia-need-plan-for-economic-development/ "Clinton: UN no-fly zone requires bombing Libya"].  AolNews website/World.  Retrieved from November 5, 2013 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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In joining Ms. Susan Rice and Ms. Samantha Power, Mrs. Clinton made an unusual break with Secretary of Defense [[Robert Gates]], who, along with the national security adviser, Thomas E. Donilon, and the counterterrorism chief, [[John O. Brennan]], had urged caution. Libya was not vital to American national security interests, the men argued, and Mr. Brennan worried that the Libyan rebels remained largely unknown to American officials, and could have ties to Al Qaeda.<ref name=Cooper/>
 
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The president fully articulated American foreign policy toward Libya as formulated by Hillary Clinton: "Left unchecked... a humanitarian crisis would ensue.... The democratic values that we stand for would be overrun."<ref>Obama, President Barack (March 18, 2011). "Remarks by the President on the situation in Libya".  The White House/The Press Office quoted by Congressional Research Service (March 30, 2011).  [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CDUQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fas.org%2Fsgp%2Fcrs%2Fnatsec%2FR41725.pdf&ei=kJkNUeedJ43DiwLCm4H4DQ&usg=AFQjCNHhRCTBkk8zUd7wMWao9DKaab8bww&sig2=8SrhE1X08403SM783aYujg&bvm=bv.41867550,d.cGE ''Operation Odyssey Dawn (Libya): Background and issues for Congress''] (Gertler, Jeremiah, coordinator, Washington D.C.: GPO), p. 3.</ref>  Nonetheless, after being captured on October 20, 2011 by forces backed by Hillary Clinton and the Obama administration, Gaddafi was first brutally sodomized, murdered, and his lifeless body paraded through the streets.<ref>Daly, Corbett (October 20, 2011). [http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20123348-503544/clinton-on-qaddafi-we-came-we-saw-he-died/ "Clinton on Qaddafi: 'We came, we saw, he died'"] CBS News website.</ref>
 
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On September 11, 2012, the anniversary of the [[9/11 terror attacks]], Islamist terrorists attacked the American embassy and killed four people. In testimony before Congress on January the 23th, 2013 Clinton was asked why the [[Obama administration]] deliberately put out false information about the attack just prior to the [[Presidential Election of 2012]], Clinton screamed at Senators, "WHAT DIFFERENCE AT THIS POINT DOES IT MAKE?".<ref>[http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/01/23/senator-calls-for-top-to-bottom-review-state-department-ahead-clinton-testimony/ "Clinton set for long-awaited Libya testimony, as senator urges 'top-to-bottom review'"] (January 23, 2013).  Fox News website/Politics/Senate.</ref>
 
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Hillary Clinton further testified in the wake of the Benghazi murders that occurred under her stewardship, that weapons and fighters equipped by the Obama administration made their way into [[Mali]] and [[Algeria]]:
 
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Hilary Clinton and the State Department refused to place [[Boko Haram]] on the list of foreign terrorist organizations in 2011, after the group bombed the UN headquarters in Abuja. The refusal came despite the urging of the Justice Department, the FBI, the CIA, and over a dozen Senators and Congressmen.<ref>Morrissey, Ed (May 8, 2014). [http://hotair.com/archives/2014/05/08/did-hillary-refuse-to-designate-boko-haram-as-a-terrorist-organization/ "Did Hillary refuse to designate Boko Haram as a terrorist organization?"] Hot Air website.</ref>
 
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In November 2009 before George Mitchell's awkward removal as Middle East emissary, Clinton finally took a foreign policy initiative in the highly sensitive Palestine-Israeli peace process. However, she offended the Palestinians by praising Israel for offering to curb its settlement-building program in the [[West Bank]]. <ref>Associated Press (November 1, 2009).  [http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/01/palestinians-accuse-clinton-undermining-peace-talks-shift-settlements/ "Palestinians accuse Clinton of undermining peace talks with shift on settlements"].  Fox News website/Politics/Executive.</ref> The Palestinians accused her of undermining progress toward Mideast peace talks (the Palestinians want to see all settlements dismantled). To try and make amends and smooth over Palestinians, she issued a new statement saying the US wants [[Israel]] settlement halt forever, “We do not accept the legitimacy of settlement activity and we have a very firm belief that ending all settlement activity, current and future, would be preferable.” <ref>JTA (November 4, 2009). [http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/in_cairo_clinton_clarifies_settlement_position_20091104/ "In Cairo, Clinton clarifies settlement position"].  Jewish Journal website/News/Israel.</ref>
 
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Once again, Clinton's failure as Secretary of State came into question as [[John Kerry]] planned a visit to [[Iran]], which Iran rejected. <ref>Solomon, Jay (December 24, 2009).  [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126161465189603571.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_us "Kerry floats plan to visit Tehran"], ''The Wall Street Journal'' website/U.S./Politics.</ref> Kerry was named as the replacement of Hillary Clinton after President Obama's embarrassing failure to garner support for Amb. Susan Rice's nomination.<ref>"Kerry plays key role for the President" (October 22, 2009). ''Philadelphia Inquirer''/World/U.S. [http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091022_Kerry_plays_key_role_for_the_president.html dead link].</ref>
 
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Clinton went to Africa to demonstrate the administration is giving Africa a higher priority than usual. Clinton has long been outspoken on causes like development, health, poverty, and gender violence.  Her first stop was [[Kenya]], where the U.S. policy is to stabilize the political situation which has been on the brink of civil war.  Also important is economic development, with a continent-wide economic conference. Under Bill Clinton the "African Growth and Opportunity Act" expanded the number of tariff-free goods sub-Saharan countries could export to the United States. Kenya is an economic engine in eastern Africa, and needs encouragement to seek economic growth and leadership rather than risk an ethnic civil war.
 
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[[South Africa]] is the superpower on the continent, but relations were strained with the U.S. under the country's erratic former president, Thabo Mbeki. He for example, fought against American effort to stamp out AIDS, suggesting the disease was a Western conspiracy. The new president, Jacob Zuma, is an unknown quantity.  South Africa is in its first recession in more than a decade. With riots on the streets over his failure to deliver on promises to the country's poor, Zuma may hope to capitalize on improved relations with the United States. That bodes well for Clinton. One of the biggest splits was over Zimbabwe, where Bush wanted Mbeki to take a more pro-active role, while Mbeki wanted the United States to stay out of his tyranny.
 
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[[Angola]] is now the top oil exporter in Africa, with the usual corrupt pattern of concentrated oil wealth, wobbly, and a 48% unemployment rate. American oil companies are active and the U.S. is providing business and military support. American support for Angola causes resentment in the rest of Africa, where critics attack the American friendship with President José Eduardo Dos Santos, who has held power for more than 30 years. President Bush's oft-stated concern for human rights and democracy in Angola was seen by African nationalists as little more than a pretence.
 
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Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, embarked on an official African trip that took her to Zambia, Tanzania and Ethiopia.
 
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In a press conference in Lusaka, Clinton is reported to have warned her host continent about ‘new colonialism' in Africa from external actors and investors interested only in extracting Africa's natural resources... Clinton did not mention [[China]] by name, but as her officials later confirmed to reporters, she wanted to stress that African countries should beware of the Chinese and hold their investors to high standards.<ref>Odoom, Isaac (June 25, 2011).  [http://www.herald.co.zw/interpreting-clintons-new-colonialism/ "Interpreting Clinton's 'new colonialism'"].  The Herald [Zimbabwe] website.</ref>
 
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Hillary's trip to [[Argentina]] became controversial as she meddled into a touchy subject by attempting to force [[Britain]] to accept talks on the future of the [[Falkland Islands]]. This action will undoubtedly strain relationships between the U.S., the U.K. and Argentina. Residents of the Falklands were outraged. <ref>Whittell, Giles et al. (March 3, 2010). [http://web.archive.org/web/20110510010956/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7047309.ece "Argentina coup as Hillary Clinton calls for Falklands talks"]. ''The Times'' [U.K.] website.  First of two pages retrieved from October 10, 2011 archive at Internet Archive.</ref>
 
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On April 12, 2015, Hillary Rodham Clinton announced her candidacy for the Democratic Party's nomination in the [[2016 presidential election]] via a video on her website.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uY7gLZDmn4 "Getting Started | Hillary Clinton"] (April 12, 2015).  YouTube video, 2:18, posted by Hillary Clinton.</ref>
 
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On the issue of the controversial, biased online encyclopedia, [[Wikipedia]], Clinton sent a message of congratulations that was read at the opening session of the Wikimania 2012 conference in Washington, DC.<ref>{{cite web|first=Nicholas Michael|last=Bashour|url=http://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/07/17/wikimania-2012-swan-song/|title="Wikimania 2012 swan song"|publisher=Wikimedia blog website|date=July 17, 2012}}</ref>
 
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After Congressional Democrats voted down President Obama's proposal to create a NAFTA-like Pacific Trade Zone with China, Japan, and about a dozen other countries, to no one one surprise Hillary Clinton once again flip-flopped to garner headlines in support of what public opinion polls were saying. CNN reported Hillary had spoken out in favor of the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) no less than 45 times prior, an issue which supposedly she now opposes.<ref>Multiple references:
 
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*Tapper, Jake et al. (June 15, 2015).  [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CCAQqQIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2015%2F06%2F15%2Fpolitics%2F45-times-secretary-clinton-pushed-the-trade-bill-she-now-opposes%2F&ei=wC2CVeupMYO0oQTUj4HYCg&usg=AFQjCNEsFqVDafeOiL3RCS2RkzIM4yx07A&sig2=FjN1zCMVkBdQg3uHQ-cQvg "45 times Secretary Clinton pushed the trade bill she now opposes"].  CNN website/Politics.
 
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*Swenson, Michele (June 24, 2014).  [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2Fmichele-swenson%2Fnafta-the-transpacific-clinton_b_5523327.html&ei=CzKCVfvNFoq1oQTkg6iQDA&usg=AFQjCNH8zZ2k0O_82qbQ4lDs25S0ZL7LUQ&sig2=PUwH5dxq_fcRw17Tw9x7SQ "NAFTA, the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Clinton Global Initiative"].  Huffington Post/The Blog.
 
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*Shreckinger, Ben (February 21, 2014).  [http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/02/how-obamas-free-trade-push-could-put-hillary-clinton-in-a-tight-spot/283958/ "How Obama's free trade push could put Hillary in a tight spot"].  ''The Atlantic'' website.</ref>
 
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Speaking to a group of Democratic loyalists in Massachusetts in 2014, Hillary indulged some of the old-fashioned unprovoked, pointless partisanship and divisiveness well known to the victims of Clintonism. Hillary Clinton alleged, "Don't let anyone tell you that corporations and businesses create jobs."<ref>[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CB8QtwIwAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DPyUoCiWsTfI&ei=xzeCVYujEsTWoASs56HYCw&usg=AFQjCNFbNBSR0hvjFM2Csz0nD8oWQXzRiw&sig2=j25eCvPsMx5f-_-zQjEerg "Clinton shifts left: 'Don't let anyone tell you' that 'businesses create jobs'"] (October 24, 2014).  YouTube video, 0:36, posted by GOP War Room.</ref>
 
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==See also==
 
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* [[Bill Clinton]]
 
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* [[Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee]]
 
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* [[Freedom of Choice Act]]
 
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* [[Previous Breaking News/Hillary Clinton|Articles about '''Hillary Clinton''' from previous "Breaking News"]]
 
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Hillary is the kind of politician that is called 'super-politician. No conscience, no empathy, we can talk about why she ended up that way, but first we have to bring her to heel.

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