LanceFreeman
Mayor
From the Daily Beast:
At a lifetime achievement ceremony given by the American Jewish Congress for Hillary Clinton at Cipriani in mid-town Manhattan, Obama’s former secretary of state defended Obama's policy toward Israel, but also gave the kind of verbal support to the Jewish State that many American Jewish leaders have complained her old boss did not.
When the briskets had been cleared away, and a clutch of her admirers had stood up to sing her praises, and it was at last Clinton’s turn to speak, she used the occasion to give a full-throated defense of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy to prominent members of New York’s Jewish community and assorted dignitaries around the world, a guest list that included such unlikely pairings at Mexican president Vincente Fox and television talk show host Barbara Walters.
In her more than 20-minute remarks, Clinton left little doubt that she would create distance between herself and Obama in foreign policy should she seek the presidency in 2016, while also issuing the kind of robust verbal support of the Jewish state that some Jewish leaders have felt was lacking in the current administration.
“In Israel’s story we see our own,” Clinton told the nearly 400 people assembled inside a converted bank vault. “Israel is more than a country, it is a dream nurtured for generations and made real by men and women who refused to bow to the toughest of odds.”
[Right on, Hillary. Looks like Hillary is getting ready to run, folks]
At a lifetime achievement ceremony given by the American Jewish Congress for Hillary Clinton at Cipriani in mid-town Manhattan, Obama’s former secretary of state defended Obama's policy toward Israel, but also gave the kind of verbal support to the Jewish State that many American Jewish leaders have complained her old boss did not.
When the briskets had been cleared away, and a clutch of her admirers had stood up to sing her praises, and it was at last Clinton’s turn to speak, she used the occasion to give a full-throated defense of the Obama administration’s Middle East policy to prominent members of New York’s Jewish community and assorted dignitaries around the world, a guest list that included such unlikely pairings at Mexican president Vincente Fox and television talk show host Barbara Walters.
In her more than 20-minute remarks, Clinton left little doubt that she would create distance between herself and Obama in foreign policy should she seek the presidency in 2016, while also issuing the kind of robust verbal support of the Jewish state that some Jewish leaders have felt was lacking in the current administration.
“In Israel’s story we see our own,” Clinton told the nearly 400 people assembled inside a converted bank vault. “Israel is more than a country, it is a dream nurtured for generations and made real by men and women who refused to bow to the toughest of odds.”
[Right on, Hillary. Looks like Hillary is getting ready to run, folks]
