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> Correct The Record Friday August 22, 2014 Afternoon Roundup:
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> @CorrectRecord: .@GovHowardDean stopped by to visit with @HillaryClinton at a #HardChoices book signing: http://easthamptonstar.com/News/2014821/Hillary-Fever-Grips-Hamptons … [8/22/14, 12:09 p.m. EDT]
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> @CorrectRecord: A supporter at the signing: @HillaryClinton is "the most impressive person I’ve ever heard speak." http://easthamptonstar.com/News/2014821/Hillary-Fever-Grips-Hamptons … [8/22/14, 11:28 a.m. EDT]
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> @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton fan at book signing: “I’ll wait forever for her to be president...we need American women in power.” http://easthamptonstar.com/News/2014821/Hillary-Fever-Grips-Hamptons … [8/22/14, 11:09 a.m. EDT]
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> @CorrectRecord: .@HillaryClinton strengthened the ties between U.S. businesses and African countries #HRC365 http://correctrecord.org/african-growth-american-business/ … [8/21/14, 3:48 p.m. EDT]
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> CNN: “Romney: Clinton won't be able to distance herself from Obama”
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> “Not all Democrats, especially those tasked with defending Clinton, agree that the former secretary of state will need to distance herself from Obama. ‘Hillary Clinton is one of the most admired and trusted public figures in America and should she run for President, she will run on her own record and implement her own vision for moving our country forward,’ said Adrienne Elrod, spokeswoman of Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton communications group, in response to Ryan's critique.”
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> Business Insider: “Mitt Romney Mocks Hillary Clinton's 'Most Embarrassing' Foreign Policy Mistake”
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> “Two-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney went out of his way to criticize expected 2016 Democratic White House contender Hillary Clinton in an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday night.”
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> Politico: “Where Mitt Romney agrees with Hillary Clinton”
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> “Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney did something unexpected on Thursday night — he agreed with Hillary Clinton.”
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> CBS (DC): “‘Third Time’s The Charm': Ryan Would ‘Love To See’ Romney Run Again”
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> “Romney stated that Hillary Clinton won’t be able to distance herself from Obama if she decides to run for president.”
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> WMUR-TV (N.J.): “Man who held hostages at Clinton campaign office approved for parole”
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> “A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 has been approved for parole.”
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> The State (S.C.): “Staff of US House Benghazi investigation committee coming together”
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> “The former top lawyer for the U.S. Army will be chief counsel for Republicans on the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.”
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> CNN: “Romney: Clinton won't be able to distance herself from Obama”
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> August 22, 2014, 10:25 a.m. EDT
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> Mitt Romney feels vindicated by Hillary Clinton.
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> At a book event for Rep. Paul Ryan, his former running mate, Romney said that Hillary Clinton distancing herself from some of President Barack Obama's foreign policy was reminiscent of the campaign he ran against the President.
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> "She was very critical of the president’s foreign policy, and basically said ’he doesn’t have one,’" Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee, said, according to Bloomberg. "I used to say that during the campaign.
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> Romney was referring to Clinton's interview with the Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, where the former secretary of state appeared to create space with the President on foreign policy and knock some of his guiding principles.
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> "Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle,” Clinton said, referring to a view Obama has expressed to aides and reporters.
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> Clinton's split with Obama and the subsequent beltway kerfuffle – where Clinton was knocked by former Obama aides and forced to backtrack – was evidence of how difficult it would be for her to create any distance with the President.
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> "Hillary Clinton tries to distance herself from the foreign policy of the President," Romney said in Chicago. "That would work better were she not his secretary of state for four years."
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> Romney later added that if Clinton were to win in 2016 – she is the favorite for the Democratic nomination and is admittedly thinking about a run – she would just "keep these things going" like they have been under Obama.
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> Romney made similar statement in a Thursday night appearance with Ryan on Fox News.
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> "I can't begin to explain the President's foreign policy. I think Hillary Clinton tried to explain it by saying there wasn't a foreign policy, in effect," Romney said. "Rarely did I agree with what Hillary Clinton had to say but on that topic, I think we agreed. I think it's interesting that she tries to distance herself from the President's foreign policy, given the fact that she was his secretary of state for four years."
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> The former Massachusetts governor's critique echoes what Ryan and other Republicans have said: Clinton won't be able to shake the Obama record.
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> "I don't think people are going to want to have an Obama third term and no matter how she tries to shake that label, she won't be able to," Ryan said in an interview with USA Today earlier this week.
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> This line of questioning by Romney and Ryan has worried some Democrats.
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> Some Clinton associates have quietly expressed concern that one of the most effective critiques could be that her presidency, should she run and be elected, would be nothing more than Obama's third term.
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> "She was in his government, she was at his side," a Clinton friend and former aide told CNN. "That is, the way to go after her is four more years of the same old thing. The question they should ask her is 'Tell me 10 things that you disagree with him on.'"
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> Not all Democrats, especially those tasked with defending Clinton, agree that the former secretary of state will need to distance herself from Obama.
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> "Hillary Clinton is one of the most admired and trusted public figures in America and should she run for President, she will run on her own record and implement her own vision for moving our country forward," said Adrienne Elrod, spokeswoman of Correct the Record, a pro-Clinton communications group, in response to Ryan's critique.
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> Business Insider: “Mitt Romney Mocks Hillary Clinton's 'Most Embarrassing' Foreign Policy Mistake”
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> Two-time Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney went out of his way to criticize expected 2016 Democratic White House contender Hillary Clinton in an interview with Fox News' Megyn Kelly on Thursday night.
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> Romney, asked about President Barack Obama's foreign policy towards Russia, pivoted to mock Clinton, Obama's former secretary of state, for presenting a literal "reset button" to Russia's foreign minister in 2009. Relations between the U.S. and Russia have since sharply deteriorated.
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> "I worry about the country," Romney said. "The president got those things wrong. Unfortunately he underestimated Russia. This whole 'reset policy' with Hillary Clinton — smiling ear from ear, pressing a red reset button — I think is one of the most embarrassing incidents in American foreign policy."
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> In July, Clinton defended the "reset" policy, insisting it worked at the time.
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> "The reset worked," Clinton said, according to CNN. "It was an effort to try to obtain Russian cooperation on some key objectives while Medvedev was president."
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> At another point in the Fox interview, Romney also went after Clinton for her recent statements separating herself from Obama's foreign policy. Among other things, Clinton appeared to dismiss Obama's "don't do stupid stuff" philosophy. But Romney argued Clinton can't separate herself from Obama's blunders overseas.
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> "I can't begin to explain the president's foreign policy. I think Hillary Clinton tried to explain it by saying there wasn't a foreign policy, in effect. Rarely did I agree with what Hillary Clinton had to say but on that topic, I think we agreed. I think it's interesting that she tries to distance herself from the president's foreign policy, given the fact that she was his secretary of state for four years," Romney said.
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> There is speculation swirling that Romney is interested in taking another shot at the White House in 2016. However, Romney, appearing with his former vice presidential nominee, Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin), suggested Ryan should run instead.
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> "I had my turn. It’s his turn now," Romney said.
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> Politico: “Where Mitt Romney agrees with Hillary Clinton”
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> August 22, 2014, 8:47 a.m. EDT
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> Former Massachusetts Governor and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney did something unexpected on Thursday night — he agreed with Hillary Clinton.
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> For the first time since their 2012 run for the White House, Romney and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) took part in a joint interview for Fox News. During the interview, Romney focused mainly on his criticisms of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.
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> “I think Hillary Clinton tried to explain it by saying there wasn’t a foreign policy in effect,” Romney said to host Megyn Kelly. “And rarely did I agree with what Hillary Clinton has to say, but on that topic I think we agreed.”
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> In an Aug. 11 interview with The Atlantic, the former secretary of state had critical words for President Barack Obama’s foreign policy. During the interview, Clinton called Obama’s decision not to get involved in Syria a “failure” and that “don’t do stupid stuff” is “not an organizing principle.”
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> Romney continued the criticism on “The Kelly File,” saying that Obama has underestimated threats around the world.
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> “The president has a foreign policy which has failed once again. He underestimated the extent of the threat represented by terror in the world, and specifically ISIS,” Romney said. “And as a result, now we find ourselves facing a series of severe and horrific scenes on the world stage.”
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> Kelly closed the interview by asking the duo who would make a better president. Ryan immediately pointed to Romney.
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> “He’s very generous,” Romney said. “But I had my turn. It’s his turn now.”
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> CBS (DC): “‘Third Time’s The Charm': Ryan Would ‘Love To See’ Romney Run Again”
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> U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan said Thursday he would love to see Mitt Romney run again for president and teased the GOP’s former nominee at one point that the “third time’s the charm.”
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> Appearing with Ryan at a public event for the first time since their ticket lost two years ago, Romney offered his own good-humored praise by saying that Ryan “wouldn’t be a bad president” himself.
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> Ryan, R-Wis., has said he will wait until after the midterm elections to decide whether to pursue his own presidential campaign in 2016. Romney has repeatedly denied any plans for another campaign for president. He failed to win the nomination in 2008 and then lost the election to President Barack Obama in 2012.
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> Romney interviewed Ryan about his new book, “The Way Forward: Renewing the American Idea,” on the brink of the fall election season. Republicans are driving for the six-seat gain required to grab the Senate majority. Success would put the GOP in control of Congress and dramatically shape the final two years of Obama’s term.
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> They took turns criticizing Obama’s record on domestic issues, including the economy, health care and immigration, with Ryan warning that Obama will “poison the well” on immigration compromise if he takes any unilateral action. Romney said Obama sent a message to Russia when he did not act in Syria and that there has been “an explosion of very bad things in the world” since then.
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> Romney said Obama’s foreign policy is “based on his belief that everyone has the same interests” while he himself believes that some people “want to dominate and some are fundamentally evil.”
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> They also blamed Obama and the Democratic-led Senate for doing too little to reach out to Republicans and to act on important issues.
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> “If people want to actually see action in this country and dealing with problems from education to health care, immigration to our fiscal needs … they’re going to have to vote for Republican senators and … a Republican president, as well,” Romney said.
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> Romney stated that Hillary Clinton won’t be able to distance herself from Obama if she decides to run for president.
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> “Hillary Clinton tries to distance herself from the foreign policy of the president,” Romney said, according to Bloomberg. “That would work better were she not his secretary of state for four years.”
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> Romney added: “She was very critical of the president’s foreign policy, and basically said he doesn’t have one. I used to say that during the campaign.”
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> Ryan told reporters after the question-and-answer session with Romney that he would “love to see Mitt Romney run for president again.”
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> Long before Romney and Ryan took the stage at the Union League Club of Chicago, Democrats said the pairing is a reminder of failure. In a statement, the Democratic National Committee listed what it called their memorable political gaffes, including Romney being caught on video telling donors that 47 percent of Americans would automatically vote for Obama because they don’t pay income taxes and are “dependent upon government.”
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> Romney has been campaigning for GOP candidates across the country, most recently for Rep. Tom Cotton this week in Arkansas, and Ryan has been promoting his book. Romney himself reviewed Ryan’s manuscript and offered notes. And Ryan even sought advice from former Romney speechwriters and advisers during the writing.
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> The conversation Thursday centered on policy issues and didn’t touch on the more personal parts of Ryan’s book, including the fullest account yet of how Ryan, at 15, found his alcoholic father dead in bed from an apparent heart attack. Ryan told The Associated Press recently that the event shaped him as a politician and family man, and figures heavily into whether he’ll seek the presidency in 2016.
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> Although writing a book often is seen as a prelude to a presidential campaign, Ryan has said he’s not sure he’s ready to spend more time away from Janesville, the small Wisconsin town where he grew up and where he and his wife, Janna, have raised their three children.
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> WMUR-TV (N.J.): “Man who held hostages at Clinton campaign office approved for parole”
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> August 22, 2014, 8:11 a.m. EDT
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> [Subtitle:] Judge grants Leeland Eiseberg parole for Oct. 20
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> A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 has been approved for parole.
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> A judge granted Leeland Eisenberg parole for Oct. 20.
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> Eisenberg, 53, spent about two years behind bars for the November 2007 siege at Clinton's Rochester campaign office in which he claimed to have a bomb. No one was hurt in a five-hour standoff and the bomb turned out to be road flares.
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> The State (S.C.): “Staff of US House Benghazi investigation committee coming together”
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> WASHINGTON — The former top lawyer for the U.S. Army will be chief counsel for Republicans on the House committee investigating the 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
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