In a column in the Daily, we get the Clinton insider leaked story as to the reason for Hillary announcing that she would be leaving as Secretary of State at the end of the current Obama term, even if Obama wins re-election. Here's a few choice quotes:
"Obviously, she’s not happy with dealing with a president who can’t decide if today is Tuesday or Wednesday, who can’t make his mind up,” a Clinton insider told The Daily. “She’s exhausted, tired.”
"Clinton is said to be especially peeved with the president’s waffling over how to encourage the kinds of Arab uprisings that have recently toppled regimes in Egypt and Tunisia, and in particular his refusal to back a no-fly zone over Libya."
"When French president Nicolas Sarkozy urged her to press the White House to
take more aggressive action in Libya, Clinton repeatedly replied only, “There are difficulties,” according to Foreign Policy magazine.
“Frankly we are just completely puzzled,” one of the diplomats told Foreign
Policy magazine. “We are wondering if this is a priority for the United States.”
Or as the insider described Obama’s foreign policy shop: “It’s amateur night.”
This story confirms to me that Clinton is positioning herself for another run for the White House. The Secretary of State does not usually have people who leak nasty comments about the president. I particularly would point to the Tuesday/Wednesday quote. Hillary is not just leaving; she is stomping on Obama. (And he well deserves it!)
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