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Omaha Steve

(99,687 posts)
Mon Mar 23, 2015, 11:39 PM Mar 2015

Obama, Hillary Clinton meet privately at the White House

Source: AP-Excite

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton met privately at the White House Monday afternoon.

The White House says the former rivals-turned-colleagues met for about an hour and discussed a range of issues.

Obama and Clinton have met occasionally since she left the administration in 2013 after serving as secretary of state. Monday's meeting comes as Clinton prepares to launch another presidential campaign.

FULL story at link.


Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20150323/us--obama-clinton-2b2d105b68.html

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Obama, Hillary Clinton meet privately at the White House (Original Post) Omaha Steve Mar 2015 OP
H Clinton was B Obama's SoS, so they are undoubtedly on the same page delrem Mar 2015 #1
Sadly the DC Democratic Party is in the hands of the Third Way / Neocons / DLC. nm rhett o rick Mar 2015 #2
lol that Obama is such a neocon! Drunken Irishman Mar 2015 #4
That's their ignorant screed and they're sticking to it. Cha Mar 2015 #6
LOL Cali_Democrat Mar 2015 #8
Not that I've ever said that he was, but his foreign policy of war in the middle east rhett o rick Mar 2015 #27
Excuse me? In what way is Obama a NeoCon? Why did the GOP Congress have to resort McCamy Taylor Mar 2015 #13
I think that the poster was being sarcastic. Beacool Mar 2015 #22
Yes, they know exactly who Victoria Nuland is, how she served Dick Cheney, delrem Mar 2015 #26
"Clinton posted a message on Twitter praising Obama's health care law and its provisions aimed at Cha Mar 2015 #3
kicking your post Cha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! sheshe2 Mar 2015 #5
Hey, she!.. did you see this at the link?.. lol Cha Mar 2015 #7
I found no image at OS post sheshe2 Mar 2015 #9
I don't know which one Hillary posted but I was thinking of the one you posted yesterday! :) Cha Mar 2015 #11
Here's the pic, she.. fresh posted it.. :) Cha Mar 2015 #17
Yes, it's not about their egos. It's about the people. Here's the pic when the ACA passed: freshwest Mar 2015 #15
Ah, the very pic when ACA passed.. mahalo fresh! I had just posted on that OP of kpete's Cha Mar 2015 #16
Smart. Good for the party. Good for the country. And about fuckin' time Schema Thing Mar 2015 #25
Precisely, ST! Cha Mar 2015 #29
They have actually met on a regular basis... Historic NY Mar 2015 #10
Who asked/arranged the meeting? eom Purveyor Mar 2015 #12
Miss Scarlet in the library with the candlestick! Major Hogwash Mar 2015 #14
Triangulating so she can differ her views from Obama davidpdx Mar 2015 #18
Obama was brilliant to ask Hillary to serve as Secretary of State ALBliberal Mar 2015 #19
... hopemountain Mar 2015 #20
Candidate Obama was quite different from HRC, but Pres Obama, not so much. nm rhett o rick Mar 2015 #28
Update father founding Mar 2015 #21
They must have expanded the White House to accommodate a whole nation./NT DemocratSinceBirth Mar 2015 #24
It's not the first time that they have met in private since she left her SOS post in 2012. Beacool Mar 2015 #23

delrem

(9,688 posts)
1. H Clinton was B Obama's SoS, so they are undoubtedly on the same page
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:06 AM
Mar 2015

about a great many of the most important things.

It pains me that H Clinton hired V. Nuland, fresh from D. Cheney's side, and used V. Nuland to continue shaping the ME WoT. It pains me that V. Nuland, a PNACer to in her bones, has continued to rise under SoS J. Kerry.

That, to me, is creepy and wrong.

It's too bad. I have to live with not liking it.

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
8. LOL
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:00 AM
Mar 2015

I don't even think that poster believes what he types anymore.

He's got a script...and he's gonna stick to it no matter what!!!

 

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)
27. Not that I've ever said that he was, but his foreign policy of war in the middle east
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 04:32 PM
Mar 2015

and especially the drone killings in sovereign states does make the neocons very happy.

McCamy Taylor

(19,240 posts)
13. Excuse me? In what way is Obama a NeoCon? Why did the GOP Congress have to resort
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:36 AM
Mar 2015

to treason in order to kick start the war in Iran if Obama was in the NeoCon camp?

delrem

(9,688 posts)
26. Yes, they know exactly who Victoria Nuland is, how she served Dick Cheney,
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 04:19 PM
Mar 2015

and how she was immediately hired to serve Hillary Clinton and now John Kerry.
They know exactly what PNAC is. They know the consequences of expanding fields of never-ending war for profit.

They know exactly who Robert Kagan is, and how he and Victoria Nuland, his wife, are now total HRC supporters and call themselves the new breed of "liberal interventionists". You can't make this shit up.

The technique from here on will be denial denial denial, pretending the past didn't exist, that the present doesn't exist, and that there is no portent of the future under a HRC presidency. Mixed with uplifting photos of HRC expressing extreme happiness, or deep concern. The campaign will be all promises re. what one HRC booster called "kitchen counter issues". Like this week's income equality that'll happen just like magic. Because like other aspects of HRC's reality, the TPP isn't to be discussed, noway, nohow.

Wow, does the Democratic party ever need a robust primary. A political bubble like that just isn't viable.

Cha

(297,503 posts)
3. "Clinton posted a message on Twitter praising Obama's health care law and its provisions aimed at
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:24 AM
Mar 2015
covering young people and those with preexisting conditions."

Good! Mahalo Steve

Cha

(297,503 posts)
7. Hey, she!.. did you see this at the link?.. lol
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:53 AM
Mar 2015
"..In a jab at Republicans who want to get rid of the law, she wrote: "Repeal those things? Embrace them!

To emphasize her point, Clinton shared an old photo of her and Obama hugging."[/b[



sheshe2

(83,846 posts)
9. I found no image at OS post
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:03 AM
Mar 2015

....

I did post this last night in the Hillary Group



http://www.democraticunderground.com/11072463

Do you have a link?

Sigh~ I have to go soon

Cha

(297,503 posts)
11. I don't know which one Hillary posted but I was thinking of the one you posted yesterday! :)
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:27 AM
Mar 2015

freshwest

(53,661 posts)
15. Yes, it's not about their egos. It's about the people. Here's the pic when the ACA passed:
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 02:13 AM
Mar 2015


Hillary Clinton embraces Obamacare at White House meeting with president

Former secretary of state tweets image of hug with Barack Obama in support of Affordable Care Act while Republican candidate Ted Cruz promises repeal

?@HillaryClinton
#ACA@5:
16m covered. Young ppl. Preexisting conditions. Women get better coverage. Repeal those things? Embrace them!

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/580132218166726656
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/23/hillary-clinton-embraces-obamacare-white-house-meeting-barack-obama

to kpete:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=6405389

A lot of joy in that room...

Cha

(297,503 posts)
16. Ah, the very pic when ACA passed.. mahalo fresh! I had just posted on that OP of kpete's
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 02:17 AM
Mar 2015

and thought of this thread.. was going to post it here but you did it! Thank you!

Schema Thing

(10,283 posts)
25. Smart. Good for the party. Good for the country. And about fuckin' time
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 01:23 PM
Mar 2015

Democratic candidates start embracing all things Obama.


How idiotic to have one of the best presidents of all time and not use that advance the party.

ALBliberal

(2,344 posts)
19. Obama was brilliant to ask Hillary to serve as Secretary of State
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 03:38 AM
Mar 2015

It helped us all heal. It was a strategic forward thinking move politically. Most of all we were shown Obama's humility and his knack of putting country before politics. Great move. Yes I vote for Hillary or whoever our nominee will be. Our Democratic field so strong. Republicans ... not so much.

Beacool

(30,250 posts)
23. It's not the first time that they have met in private since she left her SOS post in 2012.
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 12:15 PM
Mar 2015

They like and respect each other.

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