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*​**Correct The Record Tuesday February 10, 2015 Afternoon Roundup:* *Twitter:* *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton <https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton> pushed for awareness & prevention of teen dating violence#HRC365 <https://twitter.com/hashtag/HRC365?src=hash> #RESPECTweek <https://twitter.com/hashtag/RESPECTweek?src=hash> #teenDVmonth <https://twitter.com/hashtag/teenDVmonth?src=hash> https://www.congress.gov/bill/109th-congress/senate-resolution/612/cosponsors … <https://t.co/tfTqL9P1gQ> [2/10/15, 12:01 p.m. EST <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/565193793117233152>] *Correct The Record* @CorrectRecord: "Group of Dems Release Analysis Detailing Hillary Clinton's Record on Middle Class Jobs" http://abcnewsradioonline.com/politics-news/group-of-dems-release-analysis-detailing-hillary-clintons-re.html#ixzz3RHDXTImj … <http://t.co/5ZC60Sk8VU> via @ABCRadio <https://twitter.com/ABCRadio> [2/9/15, 5:01 p.m. EST <https://twitter.com/CorrectRecord/status/564906998354157568>] *Headlines:* *NPR: “In Likely Democratic Primary, Who's Joining Hillary Clinton?” <http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384952071/in-likely-democratic-primary-whos-joining-hillary-clinton>* “One-time presidential candidate Bill Richardson has a theory about why. ‘The reason there's no bench is because she's the cleanup hitter that is so dominant nobody wants to challenge her. That's why there's no bench,’ he says.” *People: “Angelina Jolie Launches Center for Women, Peace and Security in London” <http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-announces-center-women-peace-security-london>* “The new center will support the goals of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), which Jolie and Hague co-founded in 2012. Next year, the newly announced center will begin offering post-graduate degrees. The center is also supported by former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry.” *Salon: “The selling of Elizabeth Warren: What’s behind progressives’ debilitating fantasy” <http://www.salon.com/2015/02/09/the_selling_of_elizabeth_warren_whats_behind_progressives_debilitating_fantasy/>* “It’s also past time to observe that in addition to saying she isn’t running, Warren hasn’t done anything to build an organization in any of the early primary or caucus states.” *Bloomberg: “How Long Can the Left Put Up With A ‘Draft Warren’ Movement?” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-10/how-long-can-the-left-put-up-with-a-draft-warren-movement->* “Thirteen people showed up to the house party that Costa covered.” *Wall Street Journal blog; Washington Wire: “Boris Johnson Plans Meeting With Hillary Clinton” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/10/boris-johnson-plans-meeting-with-hillary-clinton/>* “During Tuesday’s visit to New York he is due to meet his counterpart Mayor Bill de Blasio, then on Wednesday he meets Mrs. Clinton and the city’s Police Commissioner Bill Bratton.” *Real Clear Politics: “RNC Video: Obama Pushing Hillary for 'Third Term'” <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/rnc_video_implies_obama_pushes_hillary_for_third_term_125556.html>* “The RNC released a Web video Tuesday casting Clinton as the heir to President Obama’s third term.” *Articles:* *NPR: “In Likely Democratic Primary, Who's Joining Hillary Clinton?” <http://www.npr.org/2015/02/10/384952071/in-likely-democratic-primary-whos-joining-hillary-clinton>* By Tamara Keith February 10, 2015, 4:03 a.m. EST There may not be any officially declared candidates for president yet, but prominent Republicans from Jeb Bush to Rand Paul and Marco Rubio are making big speeches and jostling for consultants and donors. On the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton may not formally announce whether she is running for months. But any number of polls would indicate, without even declaring, she has a lock on the Democratic nomination. Which got me thinking — who are the other potential Democratic candidates? This may not be an obvious place to start, but I figured why not ask the opposition? America Rising PAC is a Republican group that exists to dig up dirt on Democrats. And it's on the lookout for presidential candidates to target. "It really is tough," says Tim Miller, the PAC's executive director. He says each quarter the staff have a meeting where they sit down and basically ask themselves, "Who other than Hillary Clinton should we be researching?" "And that list of strong candidates after Hillary is so small as to be potentially nobody." To test the theory, I went to downtown Chicago — hotbed of Democratic politics — to ask people whom they expect to run for president. Here are some of the responses I got: April Williams, sighing: "The only one I can think of is Hillary Clinton. That's about it." Martha O'Connor: "Honestly, to be honest with you, Hillary is kind of the only person that pops into my mind." David Johnston: "Joe Biden, you know, vice president. They usually go for it afterwards." Adrienne Wonzer: "Hillary Clinton, first of all, and then Liz. Oh, my gosh. I can't think of her name. ... Liz Warren, No. 2. And I can't think of a third possibility." Elizabeth Warren is a name that came up again and again. Hector Ortiz, who considers himself an independent voter, said he'd like to see her run. But, he said, "I don't know if she will." As for Warren herself, she told us back in December, "I am not running for president. Do you want me to put an exclamation point at the end?" So, who does that leave? Biden, who says the field is wide open but has made no obvious moves toward running. And there are three names that didn't come up once among the many people I stopped on the street in Chicago: former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley, former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb and current independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders. All this is making for a lonely time for New Hampshire Democrats who are accustomed to being heavily wooed at this point in the election cycle. "You're seeing that fairly significantly on the Republican side, but on the Democratic side, not so much," says Kathy Sullivan, a prominent Democratic activist in the state. On the Republican side, there are so many household names considering a run it's hard to keep track of them all. On the Democratic side, there's just Clinton. One-time presidential candidate Bill Richardson has a theory about why. "The reason there's no bench is because she's the cleanup hitter that is so dominant nobody wants to challenge her. That's why there's no bench," he says. Richardson is the former Democratic governor of New Mexico who ran in 2008 and ultimately endorsed President Obama — meaning he's not what you'd call a Clinton ally these days. The Democratic Party is in the midst of eight years of holding the White House, and pretty much the whole time, Clinton has been seen as the next in line. But Richardson isn't so sure her dominance is good for her. "The public may perceive that it's a coronation, that she's not hungry enough. And sometimes combat, primary combat makes you tougher, makes you stronger, makes you a better general election candidate," he says. Whether this ends up being a problem for Clinton, assuming she decides to run, depends on how the Republican primary plays out. Will the nominee be sharpened by the experience with a finely tuned stump speech, or bruised, staking out positions unpopular with a broader public? For Democrats, the current situation represents a high-risk, high-reward proposition, but it may well be the only option they have. *People: “Angelina Jolie Launches Center for Women, Peace and Security in London” <http://www.people.com/article/angelina-jolie-announces-center-women-peace-security-london>* By Kathy Ehrich Dowd February 10, 2015, 11:20 a.m. EST Angelina Jolie expanded on her humanitarian efforts Tuesday in London, announcing the creation of the Centre on Women, Peace and Security at the London School of Economics. Jolie, 39, a special envoy of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, attended the event alongside William Hague, Britain's First Secretary of State and leader of the House of Commons, PEOPLE confirms. The new center will aim to educate students about the participation of women in "conflict-related processes" and "on enhancing accountability and ending impunity for rape and sexual violence in war," according to a press release from the renowned London School of Economics. "I am excited at the thought of all the students in years to come who will study in this new Centre," Jolie said in a statement. "There is no stable future for a world in which crimes committed against women go unpunished. We need the next generation of educated youth with inquisitive minds and fresh energy, who are willing not only to sit in the classroom but to go out into the field and the courtrooms and to make a decisive difference." The new center will support the goals of the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI), which Jolie and Hague co-founded in 2012. Next year, the newly announced center will begin offering post-graduate degrees. The center is also supported by former U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. Tuesday's announcement comes just two weeks after Jolie published an op-ed in The New York Times regarding her recent visits to camps for Syrian and Iraqi refugees. "I have visited Iraq five times since 2007, and I have seen nothing like the suffering I'm witnessing now," wrote the mother of six. "Nothing prepares you for the reality of so much individual human misery: for the stories of suffering and death, and the gaze of hungry, traumatized children." *Salon: “The selling of Elizabeth Warren: What’s behind progressives’ debilitating fantasy” <http://www.salon.com/2015/02/09/the_selling_of_elizabeth_warren_whats_behind_progressives_debilitating_fantasy/>* By Joan Walsh February 9, 2015, 2:08 p.m. EST [Subtitle:] As my inbox fills with emails from groups “drafting” Warren, I find myself wondering who’s helping whom here I’m a huge admirer of Sen. Elizabeth Warren. She’s the best new leader to emerge in the Democratic Party in decades. If she wants to run for president, I hope she does so. But I don’t think she wants to run for president. She’s told us that in many different ways and places. I was particularly struck by her no-nonsense answer when asked by colleague Sheila Bair, but she’s basically given no-nonsense negative answers since the effort to “draft” her began. So I’m coming to find the “draft Warren” juggernaut a little bit perplexing. I know the participants have wonderful motives and genuinely would welcome a Warren candidacy. But with every email I receive, I get a tiny bit more cynical. It doesn’t feel so much like groups are using their organizational strength to help Warren, but enlisting Warren to help build their organizational strength. Don’t get me wrong, I think MoveOn and Democracy for America have done important infrastructure and leadership building on the left of the Democratic Party. But I’m not really sure that the “Draft Warren “effort does much more for progressives than encourage a cult of personality – and risk member disillusionment when Warren all but certainly declines to make the race. I confess my misgivings about all this crystallized Sunday night, when I heard the news that the Working Families Party had joined the “Draft Warren” movement. I admire WFP; I think they’re doing exactly what progressives should be doing: Working within the Democratic Party and pulling it to the left, not standing outside the party and declaring it no better than the GOP. But it was hard not to contrast their “Draft Warren” move, which looks symbolic at best, and contains an implicit challenge to Hillary Clinton, with their cave-in to Gov. Andrew Cuomo last year — which was not merely symbolic but had real ramifications. At that time, they had a terrific progressive female candidate, Zephyr Teachout, ready to challenge Cuomo – and they backed Cuomo. So to recap: With a willing progressive woman challenging a politically centrist Democratic man – the progressive didn’t get the WFP endorsement. But now, with a centrist but more liberal (than Cuomo) Democratic woman, Hillary Clinton, (probably) running for president, WFP is courting a challenger — who (probably) isn’t running anyway. Predictably, other “Draft Warren” groups hailed the WFP news. Move On emailed to invite me to share a graphic on Twitter and Facebook that thanks WFP for joining the movement. “It’s important that we show them this morning that the number of people who think they absolutely made the right decision far outweighs the nay-sayers” – that would be me, I guess. In addition to advancing the assumption that the Clinton campaign won’t be progressive enough, before she’s even declared her candidacy, the hype about Warren serves to obscure the depth and breadth of the new populist movement afoot among Democrats in Congress. Why not draft Sen. Bernie Sanders, who says he’ll run if he believes he has organizational backing? Or other progressive senators like Sherrod Brown or Al Franken or Kirsten Gillibrand? Elizabeth Warren is a star in her own right; she doesn’t particularly need this kind of help. It’s also past time to observe that in addition to saying she isn’t running, Warren hasn’t done anything to build an organization in any of the early primary or caucus states. Now, presumably “Draft Warren” could help with that in the unlikely event she changes her mind – but Warren’s failure to make any of the moves associated with building a campaign is just one more reason to believe she won’t run. I’d love to see a campaign that popularizes Warren’s “eight point plan to build the middle class” and encourages all Democratic candidates – including Clinton — to back it. Building a movement around a single political leader rather than around issues seems like a recipe for disappointment, especially when that leader has made it so clear she’s not looking to run for president. *Bloomberg: “How Long Can the Left Put Up With A ‘Draft Warren’ Movement?” <http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-02-10/how-long-can-the-left-put-up-with-a-draft-warren-movement->* By David Weigel February 10, 2015, 10:51 a.m. EST In December, I stopped by the MoveOn/Democracy for America/Ready for Warren draft campaign launch in Des Moines, and saw around 100 progressives brainstorm ways to get Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren to run for president. On Super Bowl Sunday, I sat in on a next-stage meeting, one of 209 happening around the country, in Washington. Twenty progressives showed up. This past weekend, The Washington Post's Robert Costa walked into a house party for Warrenphilia in Ames, Iowa, one of the state's largest college towns -- a place where 250 progressives had gathered to watch Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders give a December speech. Covering that speech, I'd noticed MoveOn one-sheets on a table, advertising the Draft Warren cause. Thirteen people showed up to the house party that Costa covered. The headline, "Democrats suffering from Clinton fatigue say they’re ready for Warren," could be written from any room. It sounds a lot like what I've covered -- skewing old, lots of praise for Warren, bitterness about Clinton tamped down by people who worry that the energy will curdle if it's negative. Not much has changed since six months ago, when Ready for Warren emerged at Netroots Nation in Detroit, and reporters wrote basically the same stories. The October Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register poll of Iowa, for example, found Clinton up 43 points on Warren in a hypothetical 2016 caucus. January's edition of the poll found a flurry of Warren activity closing the gap to... 40 points. The willingness of reporters to cover a fresh angle on the Clinton restoration -- an escape from the I, Claudius infighting of Clintonworld itself -- does not indicate that Draft Warren is working. In Salon, Joan Walsh has opened herself up to friendly progressive fire by asking what the Warrenphiles are even doing. Making news, obviously. The Working Families Party had told the New York Times that it was joining the Draft Warren effort. That made national news; a search for coverage of the Draft campaign finds it to be the most-covered WFP story since last summer. What happened last summer? The WFP narrowly denied a nomination to 2014 Andrew Cuomo challenger Zephyr Teachout. It stiffed a candidate who was running; it was all-in for a candidate who wasn't. "I’d love to see a campaign that popularizes Warren’s “eight point plan to build the middle class” and encourages all Democratic candidates – including Clinton — to back it," wrote Walsh. "Building a movement around a single political leader rather than around issues seems like a recipe for disappointment, especially when that leader has made it so clear she’s not looking to run for president." Less clear: Whether Warren can be the challenger the whole left wants. On foreign policy, she has hewed closely to the Democratic Party mainstream. In a column from last year, after constituents finally got Warren to talk about the Gaza-Israel conflict, Glenn Greenwald surmised that she "sounds like [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu." Warren, whose first foreign trip as a senator took her to Israel last year, has stayed far away of the debate on Netanyahu's speech to Congress. The surreal result is that the only national politician trekking through Iowa taking on Hillary Clinton's foreign policy from "the left" is Kentucky Senator Rand Paul. "I think the issue with Warren, to me, is somewhat different," said Jonathan Tasini, an activist and writer who challenged Clinton from the left in her 2006 re-election to the U.S. Senate. "It's distracting from building campaigns on issues and a better progressive movement. It actually has a bit of the 2007 love with Obama—people willing to not ask questions about what someone believes in and, then, surprise, they get a president who they are 'disappointed' with. I'm not sure what Warren's world view is on foreign policy—on Israel/Middle East, for example—that is that different than a pretty conventional wisdom position." The Bernie Sanders network, which spends a lot of time answering questions about Warren, is sanguine about the draft movement. "If they’re going to hold a lot of people in place for a while in free parking," said Sanders adviser Tad Devine to MSNBC, "and then Bernie can go collect the rent later, that’s fine with me." There's plenty of precedent for that. In 1968, when Senator Robert F. Kennedy dithered about challenging President Lyndon Johnson, Eugene McCarthy rushed into the gap. In 2004, when progressives lacked an obvious champion, Vermont Governor Howard Dean transformed from a Cato Institute-approved fiscal hawk to an anti-war icon. Dean's campaign spawned countless progressive organizations, activists, and writers, from Zephyr Teachout to Democracy in America. But Dean did not have to put up with the dashed expectations that, say, Bernie Sanders would. If Warren has not been constantly lying to supporters and reporters -- a safe bet --the Draft campaign will end without a candidate. Sanders et al will enter the race as also-rans. The Draft Warren campaign is not wrong at all about presidential politics; there is no replacement for the energy of an insurgent bid. All it lacks right now is a candidate, and an insurgency. *Wall Street Journal blog; Washington Wire: “Boris Johnson Plans Meeting With Hillary Clinton” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2015/02/10/boris-johnson-plans-meeting-with-hillary-clinton/>* By Nicholas Winning February 10, 2015, 12:07 p.m. EST Could this be what the “special relationship” between Britain and the U.S. looks like a few years from now? London’s mayor, Boris Johnson, a possible future contender for British prime minister, is due to hold one of his most high-profile overseas meetings on Wednesday when he sits down with potential U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton during a six-day trade mission to the U.S. Mr. Johnson, who was born in the U.S. and is a joint American/British citizen, has made a string of overseas trips to China and India in recent years. Officially, he is drumming up business for London, but observers suspect he is also on a mission to build his international profile and connections in preparation for a bigger job down the line. Mr. Johnson recently announced he is standing as a parliamentary candidate in the U.K.’s general election in May, which has fueled speculation about his prime ministerial ambitions. Prime Minister David Cameron‘s Conservatives currently are neck and neck with the main opposition Labour Party in opinion polls. If the Conservatives put in a poor showing, that could trigger a party leadership contest. Mr. Johnson was previously a member of Parliament but stepped down in 2008 to run for mayor. Known for his mop of blond hair and propensity for jokes that push the envelope, he is one of the Conservative Party’s top electoral performers: He won more than one million votes in securing his second term as mayor in 2012. His profile grew with the successful Olympic Games in London that year. In Boston on Monday, Mr. Johnson delivered a speech on technology. During Tuesday’s visit to New York he is due to meet his counterpart Mayor Bill de Blasio, then on Wednesday he meets Mrs. Clinton and the city’s Police Commissioner Bill Bratton. Mr. Johnson is then on to Washington, D.C., before ending his trip back in New York with a visit to the 9/11 memorial among other things. During his visit the London mayor is looking to focus on collaboration between London and the U.S. on life sciences, business, technology, policing and culture, according to his office. London exports to the U.S. stand at about £4 billion (about $6.1 billion) a year, and there are now over 9,000 U.S.-owned companies in the British capital, according to the mayor’s office. While in the U.S., we can expect Mr. Johnson, whose full name is Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson, to show his knack for publicity. In January, on a visit to the Kurdish prime minister, he posed for photographs taking aim with an AK47 and gave an interview in which he said men who joined extremist groups like Islamic State were losers who were unsuccessful with women. *Real Clear Politics: “RNC Video: Obama Pushing Hillary for 'Third Term'” <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2015/02/10/rnc_video_implies_obama_pushes_hillary_for_third_term_125556.html>* By Caitlin Huey-Burns February 10, 2015 [VIDEO] Republicans are wasting no time waiting for Hillary Clinton. While several potential candidates jockey for spots in the GOP presidential primary field, the Republican National Committee is taking the fight straight to its presumed general election opponent, who has been notably absent from public view this year. The RNC released a Web video Tuesday casting Clinton as the heir to President Obama’s third term. The spot, first shared with RealClearPolitics, pieces together heavily edited video clips taken from White House and campaign video, news interviews, and a White House correspondents’ dinner spoof, to make it look like the White House is calling upon Clinton to run and take up Obama’s mantle. The video opens with the president calling Clinton on his phone, which features “Hillary Home,” “Hillary Jet,” and “Hillary Jet 2” on speed-dial. “I want to know if you’re on board … because I’m counting on you,” he says in one clip, set to cheesy slow-jam music. “Of course, I will do anything to help,” Clinton says in a spliced-in separate clip. The spot then cuts to Obama calling upon Vice President Biden, whose response implies he is declining to run for the Oval Office. “No, I’m not going, I’ve been there once,” Biden says. “OK, good,” the president responds. The footage concludes with the text, “Hillary already signed up for Obama’s third term.” This week, the RNC launched a “Hillary’s Hiding” campaign to highlight the presumed candidate’s absence from the national stage this year after a series of high-paid speeches around the country and elsewhere. A committee memo highlights the days passed since Clinton visited Iowa (103) and New Hampshire (100), urging her to “face the American people” she wants to lead. With a crowded Republican field and little substantial opposition to her on the Democratic side, Clinton can afford to lie low and concentrate on building her campaign while the GOP opponents duke it out amongst themselves. Some reports say Clinton won’t officially announce her campaign until July. For now, the former secretary of state has taken to weighing in on issues of the day through the condensed form of Twitter. During the recent vaccine debate that put some GOP contenders on the hot seat, Clinton waited out the storm until tweeting that the “science is clear.” She used the hashtag, “#GrandmotherKnowsBest.”