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*[image: Inline image 1]* *Correct The Record Sunday July 27, 2014 Roundup:* *Headlines:* *Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton speaks of need for political compromise” <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/26/hillary-clinton-boston-address-speaks-need-for-political-compromise/SHPsiVejGGO1xTFaqy7uYM/story.html>* “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued an appeal for political compromise Saturday at a financial advisers’ conference in Boston, crediting business-minded Republicans with helping end the 2013 government shutdown that she said had tarnished the United States’ image abroad.” *Boston Herald: “Clinton makes splash at Boston convention, raps partisanship” <http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/07/clinton_makes_splash_at_boston_convention_raps_partisanship>* “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton preached bipartisanship, plugged her book, avoided talk of a 2016 White House run, and even joked about her role as the last-minute fill-in speaker for former President George W. Bush during a convention in Boston yesterday.” *Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton meets fans at Seekonk Sam’s Club” <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/26/hillary-clinton-meets-fans-sam-club-seekonk/EE7FAf7HyPHS22McZ5DVEN/story.html>* “Against a backdrop of stacked paper towels and water bottle packs in an aisle at a Sam’s Club, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton greeted nearly 1,000 people Saturday during a book signing at the retail warehouse for her memoir, ‘Hard Choices.’” *RealClearPolitics: “'Ready for Hillary' in Northeast Pennsylvania” <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/27/ready_for_hillary_in_northeast_pennsylvania_123473.html>* “McNulty is clear about who Scranton will endorse in a primary race between Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, who also grew up in the city: ‘Sorry, sir, with all due respect, this is Hillary Country.’” *Politico: “Hillary Clinton addresses ‘vision,’ realities” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/hillary-clinton-interview-vision-reality-109407.html>* “Hillary Clinton said in an interview airing Sunday that voters sometimes look for ‘a vision that people can hang onto,’ but that must be based in the realities of getting results in Washington.” *CNN blog: Fareed Zakaria GPS: “Clinton: Settlement policy my biggest complaint with Israeli government” <http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/27/clinton-settlement-policy-my-biggest-complaint-with-israeli-government/>* “The continuing settlements, which have been denounced by successive American administrations on both sides of the aisle, are clearly a terrible signal to send if, at the same time, you claim you're looking for a two-state solution.” *Mediaite: “Fareed Zakaria to Hillary Clinton: What Happened to the Reset with Russia?” <http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fareed-zakaria-to-hillary-clinton-what-happened-to-the-reset-with-russia/>* “CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday morning if, as she claimed in her book, the “reset” with Russia worked initially, when exactly did it stop working?” *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Clinton to Europe: Loosen Russia’s Energy Grip” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/27/clinton-to-europe-loosen-russias-energy-grip/>* “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on European nations to become less dependent on Russian energy supplies and impose stronger sanctions on their Eastern neighbor.” *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Clinton: Any Enrichment by Iran Could Trigger Arms Race” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/27/clinton-any-enrichment-by-iran-could-trigger-arms-race/>* “Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that any Iranian uranium enrichment could trigger a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East.” *The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky): “Bill Clinton coming to eastern Kentucky to stump for Grimes” <http://www.dailyindependent.com/local/x1027609325/Bill-Clinton-coming-to-eastern-Kentucky-to-stump-for-Grimes?zc_p=0>* “Former President Bill Clinton will join Grimes on Aug. 6 for a campaign rally in eastern Kentucky, according to a campaign official who would provide no further details.” *CNN: “CNN Poll: Romney tops Obama but loses to Clinton” <http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/27/cnn-poll-romney-tops-obama-but-loses-to-clinton/>* “If a rematch of the 2012 presidential election were held today, GOP nominee Mitt Romney would top President Barack Obama in the popular vote, according to a new national survey. But a CNN/ORC International poll also indicates that if Romney changes his mind and runs again for the White House, Hillary Clinton would best him by double digits in a hypothetical showdown.” *New York Post: “How a ‘weird’ Chelsea Clinton is getting in on the family business” <http://nypost.com/2014/07/26/how-a-weird-chelsea-clinton-is-muscling-in-on-the-family-business/>* “Yet for all this talk from a lifelong public person about her recent decision to become a public person, Chelsea Clinton, now 34, remains an enigma.” *Articles:* *Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton speaks of need for political compromise” <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/26/hillary-clinton-boston-address-speaks-need-for-political-compromise/SHPsiVejGGO1xTFaqy7uYM/story.html>* By Jim O’Sullivan July 26, 2014 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton issued an appeal for political compromise Saturday at a financial advisers’ conference in Boston, crediting business-minded Republicans with helping end the 2013 government shutdown that she said had tarnished the United States’ image abroad. Clinton, widely discussed as a presidential front-runner in 2016, repeatedly decried what she portrayed as ideological extremism in Washington, invoking the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and her husband, Bill Clinton, as eras of bipartisan accommodation. “American voters should make it very clear that we will not vote for someone who says proudly he or she will go to Washington and never compromise,” Clinton said. “We’re not even coming together to solve the emergency problems. We’re having a big fight about what to do down on our border, with the tens of thousands of youngsters that are there,” Clinton said, referring to the crisis of migrant children on the US-Mexico border. Touring behind her new memoir, “Hard Choices,” Clinton addressed the Ameriprise Financial conference at the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center as a substitute for former President George W. Bush, who had canceled his appearance due to knee surgery. “The last time a Clinton replaced a Bush, things turned out pretty well,” Clinton quipped. Much of her prepared remarks were devoted to American competitiveness with China and what she called the growing threat of Russia under Vladimir Putin. But Clinton also repeatedly jabbed at populist themes that another frequently mentioned potential presidential candidate, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, often voices in her own speeches. Warren has repeatedly said that she is not running for president. “We have the feeling growing in our country that the deck is stacked against the middle class, and those fighting to get into the middle class,” Clinton said, adding that the country is hobbled by “rising inequality, growth that hasn’t really picked up yet, and the feeling that many Americans now have that somehow the system seems rigged against them.” During a question-and-answer session with Ameriprise Financial CEO James Cracchiolo, Clinton said right-leaning corporate leaders had helped fortify GOP congressional leadership in October 2013 to end a two-week government shutdown. “People I knew, on boards, in executive suites, were calling Republicans they supported – they’re conservative, that’s where their political viewpoint rests -- and saying, ‘What are you guys thinking?’ And it was the business community, Jim, that pulled us back from the brink.” “Support those people. Support the people who are still able to make a deal,” she said. Clinton has taken criticism for the paid speeches she has made since stepping down as the nation’s top diplomat after President Obama’s first term. Later on Saturday, she visited the Sam’s Club in Seekonk for a book-signing. *Boston Herald: “Clinton makes splash at Boston convention, raps partisanship” <http://bostonherald.com/news_opinion/us_politics/2014/07/clinton_makes_splash_at_boston_convention_raps_partisanship>* By Chris Cassidy and Laurel J. Sweet July 27, 2014 Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton preached bipartisanship, plugged her book, avoided talk of a 2016 White House run, and even joked about her role as the last-minute fill-in speaker for former President George W. Bush during a convention in Boston yesterday. “The last time a Clinton replaced a Bush, things worked out pretty well,” Clinton told the crowd. Bush had to cancel his appearance at the three-day Ameriprise Financial conference at the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center because of an injured knee. In a 50-minute appearance, Clinton — his hired replacement — warned that America’s image at home and abroad is being tarnished by never-ending bipartisan wrangling in Washington, according to several attendees of the event, which was heavily secured and closed to the press. Clinton contrasted today’s grim atmosphere of conflict and gridlock on Capitol Hill with the 1990s, when President Bill Clinton and House Speaker Newt Gingrich fought publicly all day long, but at least privately negotiated at night. “She said, ‘Don’t be voting or pouring money into someone that’s going to go into Washington and say, ‘I’m not going to compromise. I’m going to have staunch ideas,’” said attendee Nancia Dalimonte. “Because nothing’s going to change. Nothing’s going to get done.” “She talked about compromise,” a Republican conventioneer from Washington, D.C., said, declining to give his name, citing the strict confidentiality rules of the event. “She just talked about how both Reagan and Bill were able to work with the other party, and obviously that’s not happening today.” He added: “I’m not a fan of hers. I’m on the other side, but I was reasonably impressed.” Clinton’s message of political harmony could serve her well with independent voters if she runs in 2016, said one political pundit. “Independents are fed up with the excessive partisanship,” said Marc Landy of Boston College. “She hasn’t got a clue about how to improve the level of bipartisanship, but might as well talk about it. Why not?” The speech by Clinton — who declined to speak to a reporter as she left the building — drew generally warm reviews from the largely conservative crowd. “As a registered Republican I was a little concerned when President Bush canceled,” said conventioneer David Lowe. “I was pleasantly surprised and impressed.” “People were pretty uptight about her because she’s polarizing,” said Craig Hanson of Wisconsin of the announcement that Clinton would replace Bush. “But I thought she was great.” Joe Castillo, a professional sand artist and finalist on the hit NBC show “America’s Got Talent,” was one of Clinton’s opening acts at the event. Castillo said Clinton “started talking right away about economics. She talked about people paying their fair share.” The applause from the crowd of financial advisers was, he said, “warm, but not overly enthusiastic.” *Boston Globe: “Hillary Clinton meets fans at Seekonk Sam’s Club” <http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2014/07/26/hillary-clinton-meets-fans-sam-club-seekonk/EE7FAf7HyPHS22McZ5DVEN/story.html>* By Oliver Ortega July 27, 2014 Against a backdrop of stacked paper towels and water bottle packs in an aisle at a Sam’s Club, former US secretary of state Hillary Clinton greeted nearly 1,000 people Saturday during a book signing at the retail warehouse for her memoir, “Hard Choices.” Some even spent the night in the parking lot so they could be first to enter the store when it opened at 7 a.m. and line up for a signed copy and a few seconds with Clinton, widely discussed as a front-runner for the next presidential election. “I wanted her to see that she met probably the first woman president,” said Sherry Tomasso, referring to her 9-year-old granddaughter, Kyllei Shelton, who came with her to the signing. The Rehoboth residents arrived at the store at midnight with folding chairs, blankets, and snacks to brave the chilly night. Clinton came out to raucous applause and cheering. Outside, some in the rear of the line also voiced their enthusiasm when Clinton aides periodically came out to thank them for coming and to reassure them that they would get to see the former first lady and US senator. “Run, Hilary, run,” one woman chanted. “I have so much respect for her,” said Diane Bergeron of Malden, who came to the store at 5 a.m. and left with a gleeful smile and a signed book clutched to her chest. “She has my vote, and I’m going to campaign for her, which I never do, but I will for her,” said Lynn Vandenburgh of Plymouth. Vandenburgh said she was exhausted and could barely remember the short chat she had with Clinton, but that having Clinton’s hand on top of hers for a few seconds made it “all worth it.” Until just before 4 p.m., when the event was scheduled to end, the line stretched from the back of the store to the parking lot. Store employees handed out water and snacks throughout the day. A bus belonging to the Ready for Hillary Super PAC was stationed outside the store, and about 600 people signed up to volunteer or receive information, according to the group’s communications director, Seth Bringman. Some at the store said they were surprised at the choice of venue. “I thought they had evacuated Sam’s Club when I saw the line in the parking lot,” said Helena Gernold of East Providence, R.I.,who was shopping there. “This is like a warehouse. You would expect like a Barnes & Noble.” Abigale Sanft, an 18-year-old from Taunton, said the location was strange but that she did not think it affected attendance. “What really matters is that she came to the area,” Sanft said. “People are here anyway.” Security was tight, with dozens of State Police, Seekonk police, and Secret Service agents restricting access to Clinton and checking the perimeter. Several aisles were cordoned off so people could not cut in without being screened. The store’s café was closed and the space was used to give out wristbands, for which people either had to buy a book or bring their own for signing. Dianna Gee, a spokeswoman for Sam’s Club, said the store has hosted book signings for a variety of authors over the past few years. A few weeks ago, Clinton held one in Arkansas at a Walmart, the company that owns Sam’s Club. Clinton has been promoting her book across the country since June. Last week she stopped in Cambridge. In its first week, “Hard Choices” sold 86,000 copies, though book sales had plunged to 10,000 by last week, according to Nielsen BookScan. A new book attacking Clinton, Ed Klein’s “Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas,” has outsold it for three weeks in a row. *RealClearPolitics: “'Ready for Hillary' in Northeast Pennsylvania” <http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2014/07/27/ready_for_hillary_in_northeast_pennsylvania_123473.html>* By Salena Zito July 27, 2014 Evie McNulty and her husband, Jim, have been there from the beginning. She is Lackawanna County's recorder and he is Scranton's former mayor. Despite serving only one term in the 1980s, he is credited with starting the renaissance of the former industrial city; he enjoys popularity and stature as the city's unofficial ambassador, the kind of popularity you can't get in public office. Charming, smart, folksy, beloved and, above all, very connected, they are the Democratic Party's powerhouses in Northeast Pennsylvania. Arguably, their support and network is more valuable to a Democrat in a primary or general election than anything that state party chairman Jim Burn could deliver to a presidential candidate. Six years ago last month, Evie wept on her couch in Scranton as then-Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., took to the stage at the National Building Museum in Washington — where supporters had lined up around the block for hours — and told the cheering crowd of mostly women and families, “Well, this isn't exactly the party I'd planned, but I sure like the company.” It marked a spectacular end to arguably the longest presidential primary race in modern American political history. Clinton started the campaign in 2007 slightly blindsided by a freshman senator from Illinois, who barely had a year under his belt in Washington. She was even more blindsided by the loss of support in Washington — from the Teddy Kennedys of the political world who were legends, as well as from the “fresh” Washingtonians such as Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. Their endorsements of Sen. Barack Obama instead of Clinton were a sharp slap in the face to the former first lady. In late 2007 and early 2008, Clinton stumbled out of the gate; she was too rigid, too strident, failed to reach out to the progressive activists who make or break low-turnout caucus contests and, above all, was way over-handled by her advisers and staff. “They did not let Hillary be Hillary,” said McNulty from her home, and you could hear her husband in the background agreeing. When Clinton reached the Midwest and South, especially the primary races in Ohio and Texas, she shed her handlers and began to hit her stride, according to McNulty. “By the time she hit her home state of Pennsylvania, she had her groove on, she connected, she relaxed, she was herself, and that is the Hillary Clinton I know and love.” To the McNultys, Hillary Rodham Clinton is one of them — a daughter of Scranton, where generations of the Rodham family worked at the lace factory, where she was baptized and spent summers, and where her brothers still own a cabin. McNulty is clear about who Scranton will endorse in a primary race between Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden, who also grew up in the city: “Sorry, sir, with all due respect, this is Hillary Country.” McNulty defends Clinton's rocky rollout of her book tour, during which she was criticized for remarks that seemed out of touch with working-class voters and with the populist movement percolating outside Washington in both political parties. That movement is building incredible momentum against all things elite and big — big banks, big government, big money. “They should have called me, I would tell her to just be herself,” she said. Today, McNulty spends her time collecting names, phone numbers and email addresses for Clinton's next presidential campaign. The county row officer, who has won every election since 1998 by overwhelming majorities, really wants only one thing in return. “Every year we try to get Hillary to come and speak to our Society of Irish Women dinner but she has been unable to because, when she was senator, they had their parade in New York, and she had her hands full when she was running for president, then she was so busy when she was secretary of State,” said McNulty, one of three Pennsylvania women elected to the Democratic National Committee. “God, I wish we could, I wish we could,” she said excitedly of getting Clinton to speak at the next St. Patrick's Day dinner in Scranton. Clearly, she is “Ready for Hillary,” as the pre-2016 bumper stickers and buttons declare. *Politico: “Hillary Clinton addresses ‘vision,’ realities” <http://www.politico.com/story/2014/07/hillary-clinton-interview-vision-reality-109407.html>* By Katie Glueck July 26, 2014, 12:19 p.m. EDT Hillary Clinton said in an interview airing Sunday that voters sometimes look for “a vision that people can hang onto,” but that must be based in the realities of getting results in Washington. The former secretary of state and possible Democratic 2016 frontrunner offered those remarks on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS,” set to air for the full hour on Sunday. She dismissed the notion that a Washington “insider” would have a tougher time securing the presidential nomination. “I think that we, perhaps, go through periods where what we want and what we need is a vision that people can hang onto,” she said, according to a transcript provided ahead of the show. “But it needs to be rooted in the hard work of getting anything done in Washington. And I think the next election will be based around the economy, around people’s standard of living, around what’s happening to the middle class in America.” Clinton, who has been traveling the country and internationally to promote her memoir of her time at the State Department, “Hard Choices,” has generated much speculation about what overarching message a presidential campaign of hers would offer. “And whoever runs is going to have to speak candidly and come up with a set of recommendations that the American people believe would be in their interest, so that you have an election not about a candidate, but you have an election about an agenda,” she said. When Zakaria noted that the last several Democratic presidents have backgrounds primarily outside of Washington — including her own husband, former President Bill Clinton — Clinton replied that every election is unique. “It starts with where we are in the country at this time, with what Americans are thinking, feeling and hoping,” she said. “And it proceeds from there. And it’s always about the future. So whether you’ve been in office a day or you’ve been in office 20 years, you have to come to any campaign with as clear an understanding as you can get of where the country is and where you wish it to be.” Clinton, in other interviews and in her book, has also appeared to create some space from the Obama administration on foreign policy matters including Syria and Russia. Asked about what she learned from her vote to authorize military action in Iraq while she was in the Senate — an issue that took a major toll on her presidential primary campaign in 2008 — she again seemed to signal distance from the office of the presidency. “Well, I learned to be far more skeptical of what I’m told by presidents, no matter who the presidents are, and also to be much more cautious, always, in any action or vote that could lead to the use of American military power and most particularly what we call boots on the ground.” *CNN blog: Fareed Zakaria GPS: “Clinton: Settlement policy my biggest complaint with Israeli government” <http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/27/clinton-settlement-policy-my-biggest-complaint-with-israeli-government/>* [Transcript] July 27, 2014, 12:53 a.m. EDT [Fareed speaks with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about unrest in the Middle East. Watch the full interview on "Fareed Zakaria GPS," this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN.] *Martin Indyk has just resigned as the kind of sherpa of the peace process. And he says that the immediate trigger, in his view – there were many – was the fact that the Palestinians looked at the Israeli continued settlement activity...* Right. *…and said these guys are not serious, we're never going to be able to get a state...* Right. *…look at what they're doing.* This is my biggest complaint with the Israeli government. I’m a strong supporter of Israel, a strong supporter of their right to defend themselves. But the continuing settlements, which have been denounced by successive American administrations on both sides of the aisle, are clearly a terrible signal to send if, at the same time, you claim you're looking for a two-state solution. *Mediaite: “Fareed Zakaria to Hillary Clinton: What Happened to the Reset with Russia?” <http://www.mediaite.com/tv/fareed-zakaria-to-hillary-clinton-what-happened-to-the-reset-with-russia/>* By Evan McMurry July 27, 2014, 10:48 a.m. EDT CNN’s Fareed Zakaria asked former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton Sunday morning if, as she claimed in her book, the “reset” with Russia worked initially, when exactly did it stop working? “I was among the most skeptical of Putin during the time that I was there, in part because I thought he had never given up on his vision of bringing mother Russia back to the forefront,” Clinton said. “So when he announced in the fall of 2011 that he would be changing positions with Medvedev, I knew that he would be more difficult to deal with. He had been always the power behind Medvedev, but he had given Medvedev a lot of independence to make the reset a success.” “I saw that firsthand with respect to the parliamentary elections in Russia, because they were filled with irregularities and Russian people poured out into the streets to protest, and I, as secretary of state, said the Russians deserved better,” Clinton continued. “Putin attacked me personally because is he very worried about any kind of internal dissent.” Clinton reiterated her call for a stronger response from Europe. “If the United States and Europe don’t present a united front, I think Putin’s the kind of man who will go as far as he can get away with,” Clinton said. “I think he is still smart enough and cautious enough to be pushed back, but there has to be a push in order to make that happen.” Watch the clip below, via CNN: [VIDEO] *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Clinton to Europe: Loosen Russia’s Energy Grip” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/27/clinton-to-europe-loosen-russias-energy-grip/>* By Amy Harder July 27, 2014, 10:53 a.m. EDT Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called on European nations to become less dependent on Russian energy supplies and impose stronger sanctions on their Eastern neighbor. “They need to understand they must stand up to [Russian President] Vladimir Putin,” Mrs. Clinton said on CNN in an interview with Fareed Zakaria. “The reluctance has to do with European dependence on energy from Russia.” Mrs. Clinton said that while she was Secretary of State during the first term of the Obama administration, she told European nations then that they need to diversify their energy supplies. As secretary, she created in 2011 the department’s Bureau of Energy Resources, a roughly 100-person office that seeks to further diplomacy through energy security. “Russia doesn’t have that many markets,” Mrs. Clinton said. “They’re also dependent upon European markets. I think Europeans can go much further on sanctions and should do so as quickly as possible.” Mrs. Clinton, who is considered the top potential Democratic candidate for president in 2016, said the downing of the Malaysian Airlines 3786.KU -2.22% airplane justifies stronger sanctions on Russia. “If there were any doubt it should be gone by now that Vladimir Putin certainly indirectly threw his support of the insurgents in Eastern Ukraine and… bears responsibility for what happened with the shoot-down of the airplane,” Mrs. Clinton said. “So therefore we have to up these sanctions.” About 34% of the European Union’s natural-gas imports come from Russia, and several European nations are much more heavily dependent, including six that get all of their gas from Russia, according to a U.S. Congressional Research Service report released in August 2013. Ukraine relies on Russia for 70% of its natural-gas supply, and it’s a key transit country for Russian gas headed to more than a dozen other European nations. This dependence has led to some wariness among European officials and businesses over aggressively backing sanctions, since it could end up hurting European firms and the economy. Earlier this month, Mr. Obama announced another round of sanctions that targets, among others, three major Russian energy companies: the state-controlled Rosneft, Russia’s biggest oil producer; OAO Novatek, the second-biggest gas company; and OAO Gazprombank, the bank connected with the country’s gas-export monopoly. *Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Clinton: Any Enrichment by Iran Could Trigger Arms Race” <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/07/27/clinton-any-enrichment-by-iran-could-trigger-arms-race/>* By Amy Harder July 27, 2014, 11:31 a.m. EDT Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Sunday that any Iranian uranium enrichment could trigger a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East. “I believe strongly that it’s really important for there to be so little enrichment or no enrichment at least for a long period of time because I do think any enrichment will trigger an arms race in the Middle East,” Mrs. Clinton said on CNN in an interview with Fareed Zakaria. As secretary of state, Mrs. Clinton led the Obama administration’s efforts to get international sanctions imposed on Iran, including its oil sector, in 2012. Mrs. Clinton stepped down in early 2013 and is now considered a top potential presidential candidate for 2016, though she has declined to yet say whether she is running. Earlier this month, Iran and six world powers, including the U.S., agreed to extend negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear-enrichment program for four more months to reach a comprehensive deal. Iran agreed to take further measures to curtail the most advanced parts of its nuclear program. It will accelerate the conversion of its 20% enriched uranium into fuel for its research reactor, U.S. officials said. That move will make the material significantly harder to reconvert into a form that can be used for a nuclear weapon, they said. *The Daily Independent (Ashland, Kentucky): “Bill Clinton coming to eastern Kentucky to stump for Grimes” <http://www.dailyindependent.com/local/x1027609325/Bill-Clinton-coming-to-eastern-Kentucky-to-stump-for-Grimes?zc_p=0>* By Ronnie Ellis July 26, 2014 GLASGOW — Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes is again calling in the “Big Dog” in her quest to unseat five-term Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell. Former President Bill Clinton will join Grimes on Aug. 6 for a campaign rally in eastern Kentucky, according to a campaign official who would provide no further details. But given the efforts by the McConnell campaign to tie Grimes to the environmental policies of President Barack Obama, and the declining fortunes of the eastern Kentucky coal economy, it’s probably a safe bet the event will take place somewhere in the coal fields of southeastern Kentucky. It will be the second visit to Kentucky this year by Clinton on Grimes’ behalf, but probably not the last. Clinton is a close friend with Grimes’ father, Jerry Lundergan, and he has known Grimes since she was a teenager. In February Clinton spoke to about 1,000 Grimes supporters in Louisville, endorsing the jobs plan Grimes touts in her campaign and focusing on the economic issues Grimes wishes to use against McConnell. That was Clinton’s first campaign appearance in the 2014 election cycle, indicating the importance he attaches to the effort to defeat McConnell, the Republican Senate Minority Leader who has been Obama’s major nemesis in Congress. Clinton also appeared in a video endorsing Grimes which was broadcast at Grimes’ formal campaign kickoff last summer in Lexington at the Carrick House, owned by Lundergan. Unlike Obama, Clinton and his wife, Hillary, the former U.S. Secretary of State who is widely regarded as the 2016 Democratic front-runner for president, remain popular in Kentucky. Bill Clinton was the last Democrat to carry Kentucky – twice – in a presidential election and Hillary Clinton defeated Obama in the 2008 Kentucky presidential primary by a wide margin. Lundergan managed Hillary Clinton’s 2008 Kentucky primary campaign. “We are humbled by President Clinton’s continued commitment to our campaign and the hardworking people of Kentucky,” Jonathan Hurst, Grimes’ campaign manager, said Saturday. “The President shares Alison’s vision for a strong middle class and his support in electing Alison, a champion for working families, to the U.S. Senate is invaluable,” Hurst said. Grimes has run successive television ads hitting McConnell on traditional Democratic working-class themes: Medicare and blue collar jobs. Since McConnell gave a controversial answer to Edmund Shelby, Editor of the Beattyville Enterprise, saying local job development wasn’t the job of a U.S. Senator but that of the state commerce cabinet, Grimes has highlighted the issue at every opportunity. Clinton won his first term on similar issues when the internal theme of his 1992 campaign was, “It’s the economy, stupid.” He’s also known as an effective advocate for Democratic policies. Clinton clearly boosted Obama’s re-election fortunes with a speech at the 2012 Democratic National Convention after which Obama dubbed the former president as “explainer in chief.” No doubt Grimes is hoping Clinton can do the same for her in the coal fields, once a Democratic strong hold but increasingly inimical to Obama and national Democrats. In the primary, Grimes won coal-producing counties easily against an undistinguished Democratic primary field, but she under performed in those counties when measured against her statewide average vote totals. On the other hand, McConnell outperformed his statewide totals in the same counties. McConnell accuses Obama of waging “a war on coal,” though most industry experts blame the high cost of mining eastern Kentucky coal and market forces such as cheap natural gas as primary reasons for eastern Kentucky coal’s decline. He also tells voters he could become the Senate Majority Leader if the GOP wins control of the Senate this year as many think may happen and it would be foolish for Kentucky voters to exchange a Senate leader for a “back bencher” freshman. Clinton is likely to address all those issues in his visit. The announcement comes just a week before the annual Fancy Farm Picnic in far western Kentucky where Grimes and McConnell will share the same stage for the first time. Excitement over a Clinton visit can’t hurt the enthusiasm of Grimes’ supporters at that event, either. Most publicly released independent polls continue to show the race tight, some with Grimes and others with McConnell leading. But all of them have the race within the margin of error. *CNN: “CNN Poll: Romney tops Obama but loses to Clinton” <http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/07/27/cnn-poll-romney-tops-obama-but-loses-to-clinton/>* [No Writer Mentioned] July 27, 2014, 8:29 a.m. EDT If a rematch of the 2012 presidential election were held today, GOP nominee Mitt Romney would top President Barack Obama in the popular vote, according to a new national survey. But a CNN/ORC International poll also indicates that if Romney changes his mind and runs again for the White House, Hillary Clinton would best him by double digits in a hypothetical showdown. The survey, released Sunday morning, also suggests that more Americans see Clinton as a strong and capable leader than those who feel the same way about Obama. But Clinton's numbers on five personal characteristics have slightly edged down the past few months. And the poll points to a jump the past month in support among Republicans for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. How Romney fares According to the poll, if the 2012 election were somehow held again, Romney would capture 53% of the popular vote, with the President at 44%. Obama beat Romney 51%-47% in the popular vote in the 2012 contest. And he won the all-important Electoral College by a wider margin, 332 electoral votes to Romney's 206. Last November, an ABC News/Washington Post survey indicated that if the 2012 election were held again, Romney would have had a 49%-45% edge over Obama in the popular vote. Romney has said numerous times that he won't run for the White House again. But what if things changed and he ended up as the GOP nominee in 2016? The CNN poll indicates that 55% of Americans would support Clinton, with Romney at 42%. "Politically speaking, there is an interesting group of people who would not vote for Obama but would pick Clinton over Romney," said CNN Polling Director Keating Holland. "It turns out that nearly seven in ten of them are women, and 56% are Independents." The CNN poll – just like almost every national and state survey preceding it – indicates that the former secretary of state remains the overwhelming frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. Clinton is seriously considering a second White House run. Two-thirds of Democrats and independents who lean toward the party say they would most likely support Clinton for the presidential nomination. One in ten say they'd back freshman Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, a super star among liberals. And eight percent support Vice President Joe Biden. That's a slight swap from last year, when Biden stood at 12% and Warren at 7% in CNN polling. Like Clinton, Biden is mulling another presidential bid, while Warren has said numerous times that she's not running in 2016. Did book tour hurt Clinton? The poll was conducted more than a month into Clinton's book tour for her new memoir "Hard Choices." Did Clinton's well publicized book tour – including her controversial remarks that she and her husband Bill Clinton were "dead broke" when they left the White House in 2001 – hurt her standing with the public? The number who say that Clinton shares their values dropped from 56% in March to 51% now, and the number who say she cares about people edged down from 56% to 53% in the same time period. "But it's tough to tell whether Clinton's remarks were the reason for any change that might have happened. The number who believe that Clinton agrees with them on issue and can manage the government effectively also dropped, and those are not qualities that you would expect to be affected by any concerns over Clinton's wealth," said Holland. "The more likely explanation is that the book tour hurt Clinton - if it did so - not because of any specific comments that she made but because more Americans now view her as an active candidate for the White House." GOP field all knotted up, but big jumps for Christie and Perry The poll also indicates the race for the 2016 GOP nomination remains a wide open contest with no obvious frontrunner among the potential Republican White House hopefuls. Thirteen percent of Republicans and independents who lean towards the GOP say they'd likely back Christie, with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a 2008 Republican presidential candidate, each at 12%. Perry – who ran for the White House last time around – and Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin – the 2012 GOP vice presidential nominee – are both at 11%. Christie and Perry have each jumped five percentage points from CNN's last Republican nomination poll, which was conducted in June. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas are both at 8%, with Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida at 6%, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin at 5% and former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who battled Romney deep into the 2012 GOP primary calendar, at 3%. Turnout key in midterms The poll's release comes with 100 days to go until November's elections. And the biggest question surrounding this year's midterms is how many people will turn out to vote. The answer is crucial, because a smaller, more typical midterm electorate should favor the Republican Party. That's because single women, and younger and minority voters, who are big supporters of Democrats in presidential election years, tend to cast ballots in smaller numbers in the midterms. That's the problem facing Democrats this November, as they try to hold onto their 55-45 majority in the Senate (53 Democrats and two independents who caucus with the party). The party is defending 21 of the 36 seats up this year, with half of those Democratic-held seats in red or purple states. In the House, the Democrats need to pick up an extremely challenging 17 Republican held seats to win back the majority from the GOP. The new CNN poll illustrates the turnout problem for the Democrats. In the generic ballot question, the Democrats have a four percentage point 48%-44% edge over the Republicans among registered voters. The generic ballot asks respondents to choose between a Democrat or Republican in their congressional district without identifying the candidates. But when looking only at those who say they voted in the 2010 midterms – when the GOP won back the House thanks to a historic 63-seat pick up and narrowed the Democrats' control of the Senate – Republicans hold a two-point 48%-46% margin. The poll was conducted for CNN by ORC International from July 18-20, with 1,012 adult Americans questioned by telephone. The survey's overall sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points. *New York Post: “How a ‘weird’ Chelsea Clinton is getting in on the family business” <http://nypost.com/2014/07/26/how-a-weird-chelsea-clinton-is-muscling-in-on-the-family-business/>* By Maureen Callahan July 26, 2014, 11:35 p.m. EDT In 2012, four years after sort-of-stumping-but-not-really for her mother’s presidential campaign, Chelsea Clinton sat down for a lengthy, laudatory profile for Vogue. “Historically, I deliberately tried to lead a private life in the public eye,” she said. “And now I am trying to lead a purposefully public life.” Last April, Clinton told Fast Company magazine much the same thing. As she also did with NBC’s Brian Williams, who interviewed Clinton after she was hired by the network as a “special correspondent” — albeit one with no journalism experience. Her starting salary: $600,000 a year. “For most of my life I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life,” Clinton said. She was now ready to do us the favor of stepping into the spotlight, prodded by her late grandmother. “[She told me] that being Chelsea Clinton had happened to me, and that I had a responsibility to do something with that asset and opportunity,” she told Williams. Yet for all this talk from a lifelong public person about her recent decision to become a public person, Chelsea Clinton, now 34, remains an enigma. She is the Derek Jeter of the political world, adept at talking coherently while saying nothing. Who she is, what drives her, what she believes in — aside from her family’s political primacy — is unknown. Chelsea has held a series of jobs with sketchy descriptions, her accomplishments vague. She depicts herself as just another New Yorker, going to SoulCycle, taking the train, going to the movies every Sunday — yet she demands a level of obeisance any true New Yorker would find laughable. “This is my gracious challenge with her,” NBC producer Jay Kernis told Vogue. “People in television constantly interrupt each other. But when you are with Chelsea, you really need to allow her to finish. She is not used to being interrupted that way.” She is also, it turns out, not necessarily the future of the Democratic Party. As Daniel Halper reveals in a curiously overlooked chapter from his new book, “Clinton, Inc.: The Audacious Rebuilding of a Political Machine” (Broadside Books), Chelsea is, for good and for ill, very much like her parents. “The whole way she’s approached her emergence,” one Clinton aide told Halper, “has been very self-laudatory and kind of selfish.” Another close observer put it more succinctly: “She’s weird.” ‘Nothing seems very authentic’ Chelsea Clinton was born on Feb. 27, 1980, the only child of then-Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary. From a very early age, her parents trained her to survive the worst of politics. When she was 6 years old, Bill and Hillary sat her down and tried to explain how campaigning worked: Mainly, lots of people would say awful things about her dad. “Bill said terrible things about himself,” Hillary wrote in “It Takes a Village.” “Like how he was really mean to people and didn’t try to help them.” Their daughter burst into tears, but the Clintons kept going, saying vile things about themselves — not stopping until Chelsea learned to stop crying. She was an awkward adolescent when her father was inaugurated in 1993, and her parents insisted that the press leave Chelsea alone. “I really find it hilarious when they make fun of me,” Bill told People magazine weeks after winning the election. “But I think you gotta be pretty insensitive to make fun of an adolescent child . . . We really work hard on making sure that Chelsea doesn’t let other people define her sense of her own self-worth.” According to Halper’s book, the Clintons overcompensated. She was known among staff as “the royal child,” because she often got whatever she wanted. “If she would ask for something and [her parents] said ‘no,’ she would go behind their backs and go to staff and ask staff to do stuff,” one associate told Halper. “How do you say no to her? She’s the boss’ kid.” Chelsea, described by Halper as “tip-to-tail her daddy’s little girl,” was devastated by the Lewinsky scandal. When Bill finally confessed to Hillary, she punished him by forcing him to tell all to his teenage daughter. When he learned she read the Starr Report online, he wept. Aides and associates told Halper that Chelsea’s guilt-ridden parents have since given her everything she asks for — including money for the four-bedroom, 61/2 bath apartment on East 26th Street that she and husband Marc Mezvinsky purchased in 2013 for $10.5 million. “When you screw a young White House staffer,” a close Clinton source told Halper, “or whatever they did, you’re paying the price for the rest of your life. When your daughter wants to buy a $10 million apartment, the question isn’t, ‘Are you crazy?’ It’s, ‘Where do I wire the money?’” Such an unusual life, in some ways insulated and in others grotesquely transparent, has contributed to Chelsea’s high-class aimlessness. In 2001, she graduated from Stanford with a degree in history, then got a master’s in international relations from Oxford, and then got a master’s in public health at Columbia. Yet she’s never worked in any of those fields, instead taking vague consulting jobs with six-figure salaries. She’s regarded by many in ClintonWorld as an over-educated dilettante with no practical life experience. “It bothers the s— out of me that everyone thinks she’s the greatest thing since sliced bread,” one ex-Clinton associate told Halper. “She’s never had a [real] job. She’s been in college for 12 years.” A friend of Paul Begala’s tells Halper that the longtime Clinton aide and defender actively dislikes Chelsea and thinks her vanilla, good-girl persona is an act. “Nothing seems very authentic,” another source tells Halper. When Chelsea was campaigning with her mother in 2008, giving speeches and taking audience questions at various stops, she behaved as though she were still that insulated 13-year-old: No questions from the media were taken, not even from a 9-year-old girl reporting for Scholastic. Her question: Would Bill be a good “First Man”? “I’m sorry,” Chelsea told the girl. “I don’t talk to the press — and that applies to you, unfortunately — even though I think you’re cute.” ‘Stay here — you’re not a Clinton’ Cheslea’s distaste for the media did not stop her from looking for a job in the media. “She was basically shopping herself to networks, trying to get the best deal,” an ex-Clinton staffer told Halper. “It’s just kind of gross.” In 2011, she was hired by NBC News, naively positioning herself as someone whose “Making a Difference” pieces would make a difference — as if that’s not the very definition of good journalism. Her fuzzy subjects and anodyne approach were savaged in the press. *Calendar:* *Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official schedule.* · July 29 – Saratoga Springs, NY: Sec. Clinton makes “Hard Choices” book tour stop at Northshire Bookstore (Glens Falls Post-Star <http://poststar.com/news/local/clinton-to-sign-books-in-spa-city/article_a89caca2-0b57-11e4-95a6-0019bb2963f4.html> ) · August 9 – Water Mill, NY: Sec. Clinton fundraises for the Clinton Foundation at the home of George and Joan Hornig (WSJ <http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/06/17/for-50000-best-dinner-seats-with-the-clintons-in-the-hamptons/> ) · August 28 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes Nexenta’s OpenSDx Summit (BusinessWire <http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140702005709/en/Secretary-State-Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Deliver-Keynote#.U7QoafldV8E> ) · September 4 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton speaks at the National Clean Energy Summit (Solar Novis Today <http://www.solarnovus.com/hillary-rodham-clinto-to-deliver-keynote-at-national-clean-energy-summit-7-0_N7646.html> ) · October 2 – Miami Beach, FL: Sec. Clinton keynotes the CREW Network Convention & Marketplace (CREW Network <http://events.crewnetwork.org/2014convention/>) · October 13 – Las Vegas, NV: Sec. Clinton keynotes the UNLV Foundation Annual Dinner (UNLV <http://www.unlv.edu/event/unlv-foundation-annual-dinner?delta=0>) · ~ October 13-16 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton keynotes salesforce.com Dreamforce conference (salesforce.com <http://www.salesforce.com/dreamforce/DF14/keynotes.jsp>) · December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)