Just being Hillary Clinton isn’t enough
By Richard Cohen, WashPost, Published: August 12
Hillary Clinton has gone to Togo.
Joe Biden is going to Iowa.
Let us now explicate.
The vice president (that’s Biden) is scheduled in September to attend Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, which is what you do for a presidential race even if you have no taste for steak. Biden knows that merely by attending he is suggesting that he might enter the Iowa Democratic caucuses, which, as usual, will be the lead-off contest for the 2016 presidential election. If he does so, Clinton will be his likely opponent. Will she say she’s been to Togo?
Will she say she’s been to where no secretary of state had ever been before — the Cook Islands, for instance? Will she echo the constant refrain from her State Department tenure — that she traveled more than any secretary of state in history, an astounding 956,733 miles, which is 38.42 times around the world and which, you have to concede, is a lot? Iowans may be impressed, but being First Frequent Flier is not enough to get them out on the forbiddingly cold night when the caucuses will be held. Clinton, as my Post colleague Dan Balz points out, needs a message.
(More here.)
Hillary Clinton has gone to Togo.
Joe Biden is going to Iowa.
Let us now explicate.
The vice president (that’s Biden) is scheduled in September to attend Sen. Tom Harkin’s annual steak fry, which is what you do for a presidential race even if you have no taste for steak. Biden knows that merely by attending he is suggesting that he might enter the Iowa Democratic caucuses, which, as usual, will be the lead-off contest for the 2016 presidential election. If he does so, Clinton will be his likely opponent. Will she say she’s been to Togo?
Will she say she’s been to where no secretary of state had ever been before — the Cook Islands, for instance? Will she echo the constant refrain from her State Department tenure — that she traveled more than any secretary of state in history, an astounding 956,733 miles, which is 38.42 times around the world and which, you have to concede, is a lot? Iowans may be impressed, but being First Frequent Flier is not enough to get them out on the forbiddingly cold night when the caucuses will be held. Clinton, as my Post colleague Dan Balz points out, needs a message.
(More here.)
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I can agree with Hillary's travel schedule, she probably wanted to give Bill room to 'be Bill.'
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