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Clinton Still Cagey on Candidacy

June 9, 2014 Buck Banks

I’m not positive about that but the way I make decisions, that’s probably likely.

— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, when asked if she would announce her plans for a possible presidential run next year.

Hillary Clinton Admits She Got Iraq War Vote Wrong

June 6, 2014 Buck Banks

I got it wrong, plain and simple.

— Hillary Clinton, quoted in her forthcoming memoir, about voting to authorize the Iraq war.

Schweitzer Notes Hillary Clinton’s Negatives

June 5, 2014 Buck Banks

You can’t be the candidate that shakes down more money on Wall Street than anybody since I don’t know, Woodrow Wilson, and be the populist. You can’t be the one to say we’re going to focus on rebuilding America if you voted to go to the Iraq war.

— Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D), quoted by Time, on a possible presidential bid by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Putin Swipes Back at Clinton

June 5, 2014 Buck Banks

It’s better not to argue with women. But Ms. Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements.

— Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking “a swing at former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, responding particularly to remarks she made earlier this year in which she compared Russia’s tactics to Adolf Hitler’s in the 1930s,” ABC News reports.

Majority of Americans Support Clinton Running for President

May 28, 2014 Buck Banks

55%

Of Americans say they support Hillary Clinton running for president, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. The same poll found two-thirds disapproved of Karl Rove’s questioning Clinton’s health and age.

Clinton Earns $5 Million for Speeches

May 21, 2014May 21, 2014 Buck Banks

$5 million

Amount Hillary Clinton has made since leaving the State Department on more than 90 speeches and notable appearances, Mother Jones reports.

Priebus Thinks Clinton Won’t Run

May 19, 2014 Buck Banks

Given the month she just had, I doubt whether or not she will run for president in 2016.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by Newsmax, on the possibility Hillary Clinton will make another White House run.

The GOP’s Headache

May 16, 2014 Buck Banks

The Republicans are seeking to manage
Cognitive dissonance to their advantage.
First they said she was faking,
But now they seem to be making
The argument that Hillary’s brain-damaged.

In 2012, Fox News Repeatedly Accused Clinton of Faking Her Head Injury

May 15, 2014May 26, 2014 Jon Ponder

It’s All Fray All the Time Nowadays

May 15, 2014 Buck Banks

There is no ‘above the fray’ in politics anymore. There is only ‘the fray.’

— GOP strategist Mark McKinnon, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked whether Hillary Clinton is still a stateswoman operating above the political fray.

I’m not positive about that but the way I make decisions, that’s probably likely.

— Hillary Clinton, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, when asked if she would announce her plans for a possible presidential run next year.

I got it wrong, plain and simple.

— Hillary Clinton, quoted in her forthcoming memoir, about voting to authorize the Iraq war.

You can’t be the candidate that shakes down more money on Wall Street than anybody since I don’t know, Woodrow Wilson, and be the populist. You can’t be the one to say we’re going to focus on rebuilding America if you voted to go to the Iraq war.

— Former Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D), quoted by Time, on a possible presidential bid by Hillary Clinton in 2016.

It’s better not to argue with women. But Ms. Clinton has never been too graceful in her statements.

— Russian President Vladimir Putin, taking “a swing at former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, responding particularly to remarks she made earlier this year in which she compared Russia’s tactics to Adolf Hitler’s in the 1930s,” ABC News reports.

55%

Of Americans say they support Hillary Clinton running for president, a new Washington Post-ABC News poll finds. The same poll found two-thirds disapproved of Karl Rove’s questioning Clinton’s health and age.

$5 million

Amount Hillary Clinton has made since leaving the State Department on more than 90 speeches and notable appearances, Mother Jones reports.

Given the month she just had, I doubt whether or not she will run for president in 2016.

— RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, quoted by Newsmax, on the possibility Hillary Clinton will make another White House run.

There is no ‘above the fray’ in politics anymore. There is only ‘the fray.’

— GOP strategist Mark McKinnon, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked whether Hillary Clinton is still a stateswoman operating above the political fray.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

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30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%