What exactly did Hillary achieve over the past four years?
“Having stopped off in a hundred and twelve countries during her four years as Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, in her last week in office, seems intent on visiting almost as many televisions studios,” wrote John Cassidy on the New Yorker’s website earlier this week. “[S]he did “60 Minutes” on CBS… ABC, NBC, CNN, and Fox. Tomorrow, it’s the BBC. If you are a news producer at CNBC, Bloomberg, New York 1, or the Weather Channel, give the State Department a call.”
For all of Clinton’s personal prestige and tireless work ethic, most of the administration’s foreign policy accomplishments — the wind-down of two wars, the Osama bin Laden killing, the Libya intervention — were the product of a group decision-making process, with Obama undeniably at the head of the table and equal weight given to players like U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, Defense secretaries Bob Gates and Leon Panetta, National Security Adviser Tom Donilon and Vice-President Joe Biden, a Clinton admirer who own gaze is firmly fixed on 2016…
“I can see the parallels” between her struggles in 2008 campaign and her performance at State, says Kori Schake, senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain 2008 presidential campaign.
“Ask her assistant secretaries at gunpoint, ‘tell me honestly what her top three priorities have been’ — I don’t think they could answer,” says Schake.









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She probably won a lot of drinking games.
steebo77 on February 1, 2013 at 6:43 PM
What difference does it make, now?
OldEnglish on February 1, 2013 at 6:44 PM
Do you think Hillary’s ever played Beirut in Beirut?
steebo77 on February 1, 2013 at 6:45 PM
She gave the Russians a hearty laugh with her “Overcharge” button.
RoadRunner on February 1, 2013 at 6:46 PM
A bunch of dead Americans
HotAirian on February 1, 2013 at 6:46 PM
She got an ambassador assassinated, something that hadn’t occurred since 1979.
rbj on February 1, 2013 at 6:48 PM
The inability of Shrillary to get the State Dept to correctly translate one simple word into a language that we’ve had to spy in, eavesdrop on, translate and correctly interpret for over half a century, for a very public diplomatic presentation to the one nation that can still physically annihilate us will stand for millenia as one of the dumbest, most ridiculous, most embarrassing diplomatic mistake in history, only outdone by the Persian king’s killing of the Mongol embassy.
Shrillary’s cemented her place in the history books with that bit of very public ineptitude and idiocy.
ThePrimordialOrderedPair on February 1, 2013 at 6:55 PM
She became an expert on airports, having visited 112 countries.
Bitter Clinger on February 1, 2013 at 6:58 PM
(Corrected the unwarranted limitation of the time frame…)
landlines on February 1, 2013 at 7:00 PM
Billary’s job was to show presence, to put her face in the place whenever and wherever the WH wanted. She seems to have had minimal influence on policy.
I’d say she got used, in a one-sided way, by Obama, except that she will now use that job and Obama to get the 2016 nomination. She paid to play, and now she will play.
petefrt on February 1, 2013 at 7:01 PM
I lot of laughs about her incompetence and four deaths directly attributable to it.
Dusty on February 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM
She achieved a combat landing under sniper fire……oh wait….
dddave on February 1, 2013 at 7:05 PM
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/02/us-embassy-bombing-in-turkey-was-eighth-embassy-attack-during-secretary-of-state-clintons-reign/
davidk on February 1, 2013 at 7:07 PM
She, with help from BJ and their lawyers, turned Benghazi into a political windfall. When Obama seemed ready to throw Billary under the bus, BJ and Billary lawyered up. They had the goods on Obama as to matters such as stand-down orders, and they threatened to blow the whistle if Obama didn’t make good on Billary. So Obama and Billary agreed to a mutual protection/promotion pact, to protect Obama’s legacy and Billary’s path to the 2016 nomination.
petefrt on February 1, 2013 at 7:11 PM
Susan Rice hardest hit.
petefrt on February 1, 2013 at 7:13 PM
(1) Rack up more frequent flyer miles (all those international flights gave her lots of time for snoozing and her other favorite activity, knocking back a few cocktails);
(2) Get some face time on t.v. with some fawning MSM rube;
(3) Buy more pantsuits.
AZCoyote on February 1, 2013 at 7:17 PM
Nothing. Well, she gave Medvedev a red button.
HerneTheHunter on February 1, 2013 at 7:23 PM
Umm…”Fosterizing” four Americans in Benghazi then getting away with it again?
viking01 on February 1, 2013 at 7:36 PM
A world-lcass hangover?
Joe Mama on February 1, 2013 at 7:46 PM
I dunno, someone ought to ask Mr. Jack Squat.
RavingLunatic on February 1, 2013 at 7:48 PM