Word: clintonism
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...officials last year, blurring the lines between policy outreach and a potential donor-recruitment operation. Though having campaign donors on advisory boards is not without precedent, Democratic influence brokers took notice. "It's the Lincoln Bedroom with a little more cover," explained a prominent Democratic lobbyist, referring to a Clinton-era practice of permitting top donors to spend the night at the White House. (See more about the environment...
...these sorts of books tend to create a stir only when they betray the boss. A significant amount of dirt is dished here - an astonishing amount, actually; this is a work of titanic pettiness - but it's all tossed at enemies of George W. Bush. One example: Hillary Clinton is criticized for sitting down, rather than standing, for a photo with rescue workers three days after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bush, who had just arrived at ground zero, is standing for photos, and it simply doesn't occur to Rove that Clinton had already spent most of the past several...
...censor to protect is positively Orwellian. The government of China has taken condemnable measures and abused the powers of the Internet for totalitarian gain. They have banned dissent blogs and have hacked into the email accounts of human rights activists and allegedly even Pentagon computers. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was justified in chastising China for its Internet censorship last month in a speech that propelled Internet freedom to the forefront of the United States’ diplomatic agenda...
There are grumbles that the Obama Administration is ignoring Europe. Do you feel that? Not at all. I've just come back from a very long and very good meeting with Secretary of State Clinton in Washington. We've met three times, and often speak on the phone. And as an old parliamentarian, I'm always anxious to go to Capitol Hill when I am in Washington. We knew there was an issue for the President for timing, but he will be coming to Portugal for the NATO at the end of year. (See pictures from Obama's overseas trips...
...project comes in the wake of new political developments in the U.S. While the House of Representatives signaled its readiness last week to vote on recognition of the 1915 mass killings in Armenia as a genocide, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that the White House would try to block such a vote—despite Obama’s campaign promise to recognize the killings as a genocide...