The 2016 Battle Heats Up Already
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
The 2016 Battle Heats Up Already
Peggy Noonan, Wall Street Journal
I think things just got sparky, a term I once heard a military figure use to denote a battle that has both commenced and turned hot.In her interview in The Atlantic, with Jeffrey Goldberg, Hillary Clinton sounded as burly and hawkish on foreign policy as John McCain. That’s not a surprise to longtime Hillary observers, though that she chose to declare it so uncompromisingly at so early a point in the 2016 presidential cycle, is. Mrs. Clinton came into politics from the McGovern wing of her party, but that was long ago. She has been more publicly hawkish since she ran for the U.S. Senate in…
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