Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called President Barack Obama Tuesday to stress that she was not trying to attack him in a recent interview with The Atlantic, Politico reported.
A Clinton spokesman told Politico that the presumptive 2016 Democratic frontrunner called Obama to “make sure he knows that nothing she said was an attempt to attack him.”
The interview garnered significant press attention for Clinton’s comments in which she seemed to disparage Obama’s guiding foreign policy principle: “Don’t do stupid stuff.” Some top Obama advisers subsequently responded to Clinton’s comments publicly. Progressive groups issued critical statements.
The Clinton spokesman noted that Clinton and Obama had “honest differences on some issues” while she was serving in the Obama administration. He noted that the pair would see each other Wednesday night during a social gathering in Martha’s Vineyard.
“Some are now choosing to hype those differences but they do not eclipse their broad agreement on most issues,” the Clinton spokesman said. “Like any two friends who have to deal with the public eye, she looks forward to hugging it out when she they see each other tomorrow night.”
It’s not even 2016 and I’m already tired of the drama surrounding Hillary Clinton.
If you read the actual Goldberg interview, you’ll see that the media is twisting what she said to suit their narrative.
It’s Pravda-level bullshit.
Michael Smerconish was all over it on POTUS (SiriusXM) this morning.
We should be enraged at the corporate media for what they’re doing to this country.
The media will hype every little twist and turn, making each one “a game changer” in tones of breathless hysteria.
Because, you know, it’s easier than actually… thinking.
Even Ezra Klein, who I normally respect, was fretting this morning that this could drive the youth vote to Rand Paul. Can we maybe stay in the real world?
Wish I had heard the Smerconish program - he tends to be reasonable and straightforward on most issues. Thanks for confirming what I thought about all of this after I got past the headline and read the interview.
I lost a good deal of respect for Klein after his incessant breathless complaints on twitter (hundreds per day, it seemed like) about the roll-out of the website.