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*​**Correct The Record Wednesday October 15, 2014 Morning Roundup:*

*Headlines:*

*NBC Bay Area: “Hillary Clinton Delivers Keynote at Dreamforce 2014
Convention”
<http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Hillary-Clinton-Delivers-Keynote-at-Dreamforce-2014-Convention-279170681.html>*

“Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about the need to
close the ‘word gap’ between low-income children and their more affluent
peers at a technology conference in San Francisco.”

*Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Hillary Clinton Demurs on
Voting for ‘Strong, Brilliant’ Woman President”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-demurs-on-voting-for-strong-brilliant-woman-president/>*

“At a tech conference in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton gave yet another
cryptic answer to questions about her presidential run.”

*Washington Post blog: The Fix: “This girl was REALLY excited to meet
Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/14/this-girl-was-really-excited-to-meet-hillary-clinton/>*

“While she was in the state [Colorado], Clinton came across ten-year-old
Macy Friday, who had a look on her face that has never been witnessed by
anyone who is not a dad-chaperoning a minivan full of teenagers at a One
Direction concert.”

*Wall Street Journal: “Hillary Clinton Laments Tech-Induced ‘Limited
Attention Spans’”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-laments-tech-induced-limited-attention-spans/>*

“During a keynote speech on Tuesday that was largely about philanthropy and
efforts to encourage children to read, she talked about how the U.S. was
becoming more politically divided.”

*Politico: “Leon Panetta goes all in for Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/leon-panetta-hillary-clinton-111892.html>*

“Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday he would ‘absolutely’
support Hillary Clinton if she ran for president, adding, ‘What the hell
else do you want?’ when listing his former cabinet colleague’s attributes
for the White House.”

*Politico: “Report: $50K travel tab for Clintons at Steak Fry”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/50k-travel-tab-clintons-steak-fry-111891.html>*

“Retiring Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s last Steak Fry reportedly paid $50,000 to
bring Bill and Hillary Clinton to the balloon field in Indianola where the
fundraiser was held this year.”

*Bloomberg: “Bloomberg/DMR Poll: Clinton's Wall Street Ties Worry Iowans”
<https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-14/bloombergdes-moines-register-iowa-poll-hillary-clinton-wall-street-ties-worry-iowans>*

“Hillary Clinton's Wall Street ties are a problem for Iowa Democratic
caucusgoers; her willingness to use American military force is not.”

*Politico: “Hillary Clinton jabs media’s modern mindset”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-media-111873.html?hp=f2>*

“Hillary Clinton, who has long had a tumultuous relationship with the
media, said Tuesday that reporters are increasingly looking only for ‘the
best angle,’ the ‘quickest hit’ and ‘the biggest embarrassment.’”

*MSNBC: “Hillary Clinton slams media”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-slams-media>*

“Hillary Clinton, eyeing a second presidential bid and constantly at the
center of intense press coverage, lamented Tuesday that modern media
scrutiny has made it more difficult to be a leader today.”

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Hillary Clinton criticizes state of the media”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/220689-hillary-clinton-criticizes-state-of-the-media>*

“Hillary Clinton laid out a critique of the current state of the media on
Tuesday, saying it has created ‘hurdles for people who want to serve.’”

*Associated Press: “2016 questions abound as Jeb Bush stumps for son”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/53bbcff66b814daa87eb87da91a2b509/2016-questions-abound-jeb-bush-stumps-son>*

“His wife, Columba, is ‘supportive’ of a potential presidential campaign,
he said.”

*Articles:*

*NBC Bay Area: “Hillary Clinton Delivers Keynote at Dreamforce 2014
Convention”
<http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Hillary-Clinton-Delivers-Keynote-at-Dreamforce-2014-Convention-279170681.html>*

By Associated Press and NBC Bay Area Staff

October 14, 2014, 11:32 a.m. PDT

Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton spoke about the need to
close the “word gap'' between low-income children and their more affluent
peers at a technology conference in San Francisco.

Clinton gave the keynote address Tuesday at Dreamforce 2014, a software
convention. She said low-income children are exposed to fewer books and
words, creating a word gap between them and more affluent children. She
said The Clinton Foundation is partnering with San Francisco-based Next
Generation to close the gap.

Clinton did not address whether she will run for president.

After her speech, she participated in a question-and-answer session with
Klaus Schwab, executive chairman of the World Economic Forum. When asked
whether she felt it’s time for the American people to elect a female
leader, she said, “I look forward to voting for her.”

For the rest of the day, Clinton is scheduled to kick-start a daylong
effort to fill thousands of bags with clothing, books and other materials
to encourage Oakland parents to talk, read and sing to their babies.

*Wall Street Journal blog: Washington Wire: “Hillary Clinton Demurs on
Voting for ‘Strong, Brilliant’ Woman President”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-demurs-on-voting-for-strong-brilliant-woman-president/>*

By Elizabeth Dowskin

October 14, 2014, 3:36 p.m. EDT

At a tech conference in San Francisco, Hillary Clinton gave yet another
cryptic answer to questions about her presidential run.

As these parlor games go, the exchange was a cute one. Mrs. Clinton had
given a keynote speech about philanthropy at the sprawling Salesforce.com
conference in downtown San Francisco. During the Q&A after her speech,
Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum, said, “I’m going to
ask you a question I asked you in 1999. Don’t you think it’s time for the
American people to elect and support a strong, brilliant woman to be
president?”

When Mrs. Clinton said she must have erased her answer from memory, Mr.
Schwab recapped it for her.

Looking at a piece of paper, Mr. Schwab reminded Mrs. Clinton of her answer
from Davos in 1999: “Do you recall your answer? I quote you, ‘Yes, and I
look forward to voting for her.’ ”

Mrs. Clinton laughed and demurred. “I don’t want to make any news,” she
said, adding that she’d stick to her past answer. Mr. Schwab encouraged the
crowd to vote for her anyway.

Mrs. Clinton has said she plans to announce her decision on whether to
mount a presidential run around the start of next year.

Mrs. Clinton devoted most of her speech to corporate philanthropy and to
“Too Small to Fail,” a children’s program she launched earlier this year
through the Clinton Global Initiative. The initiative is an effort to get
parents to sing, talk and read to their babies and to close the “word gap”
between poor and affluent kids.

Mrs. Clinton cited some disheartening statistics about how many parents
aren’t reading to their children. The initiative will involve sending
smartphone notifications with reading pointers to parents who text,
“Text4Baby.” The effort is being spearheaded at UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospital Oakland, a local children’s hospital that bears the name of
Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff.  Mr. Benioff has contributed $25,000 to
the super PAC Ready For Hillary, a grass-roots group backing a Clinton run
in 2016.

Mrs. Clinton joked that she used to sing to her daughter Chelsea until she
learned to hear, at which point baby Chelsea asked her mother to stop.

*Washington Post blog: The Fix: “This girl was REALLY excited to meet
Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2014/10/14/this-girl-was-really-excited-to-meet-hillary-clinton/>*

By Jaime Fuller

October 14, 2014, 2:28 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton went campaigning in Colorado on Monday, trying to help out
Sen. Mark Udall in his nip and tuck race against GOP Rep. Cory Gardner in
the latest poll. While she was in the state, Clinton came across
ten-year-old Macy Friday, who had a look on her face that has never been
witnessed by anyone who is not a dad-chaperoning a minivan full of
teenagers at a One Direction concert.

Other potential 2016 presidential candidates have not elicited the same
reaction from the children of America.

[IMAGES OF POTENTIAL 2016 CANDIDATES WITH CHILDREN]

*Wall Street Journal: “Hillary Clinton Laments Tech-Induced ‘Limited
Attention Spans’”
<http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/14/hillary-clinton-laments-tech-induced-limited-attention-spans/>*

By Elizabeth Dwoskin

October 14, 2014, 3:58 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton has been working hard to court Silicon Valley, but like
many people, she’s troubled by our harried, hyper-connected world.

During a keynote speech on Tuesday that was largely about philanthropy and
efforts to encourage children to read, she talked about how the U.S. was
becoming more politically divided. Americans have become less racist,
sexist, and homophobic than ever, she said, but when it comes to politics,
they don’t want to talk to people who disagree with them. The technological
climate has only made that worse, she said onstage at Dreamforce, an annual
conference sponsored by Salesforce.com.

“We have technological changes that have imposed an almost impulsive
reactive challenge to decision-making,” she said.

Clinton said that it was becoming harder to build relationships – political
and otherwise — in an age of “limited attention spans.”

Dreamforce is a sprawling summit that shuts down San Francisco’s downtown.
In addition to Clinton, the conference featured well-known speakers,
including spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle and a benefit concert by singer
Bruno Mars.

Clinton in her keynote touted her project Too Small to Fail, launched
earlier this year through the Clinton Global Initiative. The effort
encourages parents to read, talk, and sing to their infants to close the
“word gap” between wealthy and affluent children. UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospital Oakland, named for Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff, is a partner
in the effort.

The hospital has donated $25,000 to Clinton’s SuperPAC, Ready for Hillary.

*Politico: “Leon Panetta goes all in for Hillary Clinton”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/leon-panetta-hillary-clinton-111892.html>*

By Lucy McCalmont

October 14, 2014, 9:39 p.m. EDT

Former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Tuesday he would “absolutely”
support Hillary Clinton if she ran for president, adding, “What the hell
else do you want?” when listing his former cabinet colleague’s attributes
for the White House.

“She is somebody that I’ve seen who’s dedicated to this country. She’s
smart, she’s experienced, and she’s tough. What the hell else do you want?”
Panetta said, when asked why Clinton should be president.

Panetta’s remarks came at an event held at the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue
by Politics and Prose and moderated by POLITICO’s Mike Allen in connection
with the release of Panetta’s new book, “Worthy Fights.”

When asked whether he would support a 2016 bid by Clinton, Panetta — who
also served as former President Bill Clinton’s chief of staff — said,
“Sure. Absolutely.”

“I think that there should be somebody who runs for the presidency who’s
got great experience and great dedication to this country, and if it
happens to be named Clinton, that’s OK with me,” he said.

Panetta also acknowledged the “huge challenge” of running a campaign — and
the fundraising.

“There’s so damn much money in politics now that it scares the hell out of
you,” Panetta said. “I understand the game, you gotta raise money in order
to compete against money, and I’m sure the Clintons do it better than
anybody in terms of being able to raise money, and that’s OK.”

The other challenge in politics, Panetta said, is learning to work with
others, including those on President Barack Obama’s staff. Panetta spoke
about some of the difficulties his staff at the Defense Department faced
when dealing with White House staff — echoing similar complaints aired by
his predecessor, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates, in his own memoir.

“I think there was a sense that the staff in the White House sometimes got
to the president first or tried to move the president in a certain
direction and then wanted the Defense Department to go along with that
particular position,” Panetta said. “I had some of the same experiences in
dealing with the staff and for that matter, I’m sure that Secretary Clinton
did as well. So some of that’s frustrating.”

*Politico: “Report: $50K travel tab for Clintons at Steak Fry”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/50k-travel-tab-clintons-steak-fry-111891.html>*

By Maggie Haberman

October 14, 2014, 9:00 p.m. EDT

Retiring Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin’s last Steak Fry reportedly paid $50,000 to
bring Bill and Hillary Clinton to the balloon field in Indianola where the
fundraiser was held this year.

The cost was buried in a 222-page financial disclosure filing with the
Federal Election Commission. It was first reported by Bloomberg Politics.

The event is intended to be an Iowa Democratic Party fundraiser, meaning
the proceeds go to help candidates such as Senate hopeful Bruce Braley, who
is looking to succeed Harkin, and Staci Appel, who could be the first woman
elected to Congress from Iowa.

The Steak Fry, held in September, raised about $315,000, but about $217,000
was spent on staging it, including the more than $50,000 it cost for the
private jet to transport the Clintons.

Harkin began asking for Hillary Clinton to attend his 37th and final Steak
Fry last April.

Clinton, a likely 2016 presidential candidate, has come under fire for her
paid speaking fees in the past 18 months, which typically include a proviso
about travel. The Harkin event was Clinton’s first political event of the
fall midterm season.

A Clinton spokesman didn’t respond to an email late Tuesday.

*Bloomberg: “Bloomberg/DMR Poll: Clinton's Wall Street Ties Worry Iowans”
<https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-10-14/bloombergdes-moines-register-iowa-poll-hillary-clinton-wall-street-ties-worry-iowans>*

By Jonathan Allen

October 14, 2014, 5:00 p.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] The former secretary of state is favored by Democratic
caucusgoers amid a weak primary field.

Hillary Clinton's Wall Street ties are a problem for Iowa Democratic
caucusgoers; her willingness to use American military force is not.

Those are among the findings of a Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register
Iowa Poll that shows Clinton remains the prohibitive frontrunner to win the
2016 Iowa presidential caucuses. Clinton is the top candidate for 53
percent of likely Democratic caucusgoers. That's roughly five times bigger
than Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, who follows with 10 percent
support as a first pick. Vice President Joe Biden is the top choice for 9
percent of likely caucusgoers, while 2004 Democratic nominee John Kerry
draws 7 percent.

Still, the poll shows signs of political weakness for Clinton in Iowa. The
Bloomberg Politics/Des Moines Register Iowa Poll of a cross-section of all
likely 2016 voters released Saturday showed three Republicans within low
single digits of her in hypothetical 2016 match-ups: former nominee Mitt
Romney, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul and Wisconsin Representative Paul Ryan.
Her soft spots among likely Democratic caucusgoers stem from a combination
of her ties to Wall Street and her personality.

She “looked down on us” during her loss in the 2008 Democratic caucuses and
repeated the mistake in a September visit to Senator Tom Harkin's annual
steak fry, said Barbara Mathias, who picked Warren as her first choice and
Clinton as her second. “She still thinks she's the star of the show,” the
79-year-old Story City resident said. “Iowans know that we are the stars of
the Iowa caucus.”

A plurality of  caucusgoers, 44 percent, view Clinton's ties to Wall Street
as a matter of concern, while 36 percent said they are an advantage.
Clinton's closeness to Wall Street, which is home to big donors to her
family's foundation and other projects, may be hurting her at a time when
she and fellow Democrats are arguing that Republican policies promote
“income inequality.”

When asked which candidate “better represents your political beliefs,” 52
percent chose Clinton while 26 percent picked Warren, who is using a
populist appeal to build a base of support within the party.

The silver lining for Clinton: The rest of the Democratic field is weak.
Clinton clobbers them even when the survey took into account who the
caucusgoers would back if they had to make a second pick after their
favorite candidate was knocked out. Under that scenario, Clinton's support
soars to 68 percent, Biden and Kerry garner 28 percent, and Warren stands
at 25 percent. The vast majority of likely caucusgoers say they don't know
enough to form an opinion about Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders (58
percent), Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley (78 percent), former Virginia
Senator Jim Webb (72 percent) and former Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer
(79 percent).

Clinton's strengths also are evident in the poll. She is viewed favorably
by 88 percent of self-described liberals, 82 percent of women and 82
percent of union households. Among women, 72 percent name her as their
first or second choice for the caucuses.

“By no means am I a feminist, but I think it's time for a woman to be
president and I think Hillary's the one to do it,” said Marcia McFall, 61,
who said Clinton's ties to Wall Street and willingness to use military
force are advantages.

Although Iowa Democrats who plan to attend the caucuses are sharply divided
over the role of the U.S. military, Clinton doesn't appear to suffer much —
if at all — for her advocacy of force as a tool of foreign policy.
Forty-six percent say the U.S. should not rule out putting American boots
on the ground to fight Islamic State, while 45 percent say President Barack
Obama's policy of keeping American troops out of the war is the right one.
Overall, 49 percent say the U.S. is overextended abroad, compared with 40
percent who say the nation must lead in world affairs even if it acts alone.

Still, 51 percent of likely caucusgoers say Clinton's willingness to use
force in Libya, Syria and other global hotspots make her “better suited to
be president,” compared with 28 percent said she's too much of an
interventionist.

Adrienne Greenwald, 34, who caucused for Clinton in 2008, said Kerry is her
first choice and Clinton is her second pick — in part because she doesn't
think Warren can muster the support to win. “She is slightly more hawkish
than Kerry. I think she's more willing to intervene,” Greenwald said of
Clinton. “It does bother me.”

A big majority, 61 percent, say the former New York senator's choices and
policies would more closely resemble those of her husband, former President
Bill Clinton, compared with just 13 percent who say they would expect her
administration to reflect Obama's.

Even so, 35 percent say Obamacare is the most important issue to them, and
64 percent of all respondents say they want to keep it intact. Clinton led
a failed effort to expand health insurance during her husband's presidency
and advocated for Obama's version of the law behind closed doors.
Twenty-six percent of likely caucusgoers say immigration reform is one of
their top issues — with 77 percent supporting a path to citizenship — and
25 percent say a candidate's position on taxes ranks first for them. About
four of five respondents say they favor raising taxes on the wealthy.

The poll was conducted by Selzer & Company, in Des Moines, Iowa, and is
based on interviews with 426 likely Democratic caucusgoers and has a margin
of error of plus or minus 4.8 percentage points.

*Politico: “Hillary Clinton jabs media’s modern mindset”
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-2016-election-media-111873.html?hp=f2>*

By Katie Glueck

October 14, 2014, 4:15 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton, who has long had a tumultuous relationship with the media,
said Tuesday that reporters are increasingly looking only for “the best
angle,” the “quickest hit” and “the biggest embarrassment.”

In a conversation with Klaus Schwab, the founder and executive chairman of
the World Economic Forum, Clinton charged that journalists today spend
“dramatically” less time reporting “the real news” than their predecessors
did in the 1960s and 1970s.

“So for me, we have created very difficult hurdles for people who want to
serve, who believe they can lead, to be able to do so,” she said. “And the
media has intensified that over time.”

Clinton, a former secretary of state, is expected to announce by early next
year whether she will run for the presidency in 2016. The Democrat’s
remarks Tuesday came during an appearance at Dreamforce, a San Francisco
technology conference.

According to media accounts and clips of the speech, Clinton also spoke
almost longingly of previous eras, when politicians, she said, had time “to
think and recreate, take some deep breaths.”

She noted that former President Dwight D. Eisenhower played “so many rounds
of golf that he was occasionally criticized for it, but he said it cleared
his head.” (President Barack Obama has frequently been slammed for playing
golf).

And she pointed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was wheelchair-bound,
saying that if more people knew he “couldn’t stand,” he might not have been
elected president — but “everybody constructed his life in a way so that
was not in the public arena.” And even in the middle of World War II, she
said, Roosevelt took time to “be a human being, for goodness’ sakes.”

“Human beings haven’t changed that much, but the scrutiny, the attention,
the criticism about people in the public eye has accelerated dramatically,”
Clinton said.

A clip of the reference to Roosevelt was also disseminated by the Greg
Abbott campaign, the Republican running for governor in Texas. Abbott is in
a wheelchair, and his opponent, Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis, made
reference to that in a recent controversial ad.

*MSNBC: “Hillary Clinton slams media”
<http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/hillary-clinton-slams-media>*

By Alex Seitz-Wald

October 14, 2014, 3:10 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton, eyeing a second presidential bid and constantly at the
center of intense press coverage, lamented Tuesday that modern media
scrutiny has made it more difficult to be a leader today.

“We have created very difficult hurdles for people who want to serve, who
believe they can lead, to do be able to do so. And the media has
intensified that,” the former secretary of state said at the Dreamforce
conference in San Francisco, sponsored by the tech company Salesforce.

Clinton said she had watched Ken Burns’ documentary on the Roosevelt
family, noting that reporters kept hidden Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s
handicap. Roosevelt was diagnosed with polio at age 39 in 1921 and was
largely confined to a wheelchair as president.

“Instead of, in a democracy, doing what we should to be doing, which is
giving people information so they can be decision makers,” Clinton said
reporters today are only interested in “the best angle, quickest hit, the
biggest embarrassment.”

Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum in Davos, conducted
the interview with Clinton.

“If you look at how much time used to be spent reporting the news, the real
news, not analyzing it, but reporting it in the 1960s and 1970s compared to
now, it’s dramatically shrunk,” she added.

In the 1960s there were three broadcast TV networks. Today, in addition to
those networks, there are three 24-hour news channels (including msnbc),
more local and cable channels, and a vast proliferation of online news
outlets.

According to Pew, the number of hours of TV news coverage in 2014 grew 46%
since 2003. In a separate study, the non-partisan research organization
also found that that online outlets employ more than 5,000 full-time
editorial staffers, and that 85% of those outlets were created since 2005.

Clinton has long had a difficult relationship with the press. When she
first moved to the White House in 1993, after Bill Clinton became
president, she ordered the corridor that gave reporters access to the West
Wing to be blocked off, “effectively locking the world’s most important
(and self-important) press corps in the White House cellar,” as Carl
Bernstein wrote in his biography of Clinton. The decision was soon reversed.

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Clinton’s aides and supporters often
complained that she was subjected to endless media scrutiny while Barack
Obama, her main rival for the Democratic nomination, was treated more
gently. Later, after becoming Obama’s top diplomat in his first
administration, Clinton often praised the reporters who covered at the
State Department, saying they were more interested in policy than the
political scribes who scrutinized her in the White House and on the
campaign trail.

In a his new book, journalist Matt Bai argues that the media started caring
about politicians’ personal lives in 1987, when they revealed presidential
candidate Gary Hart’s extramarital affair. That type of reporting would
later play a major role in Clinton’s own life, when reporters uncovered her
husband’s affair with a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky.

Critics have long debated the merits of reporters being complicit in what
was essentially a White House cover-up of FDR’s disability.

Clinton didn’t only blame the media, however. She pointed structural trends
that have impeded “problem-solving” in government.

She lamented the fact that fundraising now plays such a large part in
lawmakers’ lives that they have little time left to get to know each other
and broker deals. “Nobody’s around to actually spend time together to see
what kind of human being I’m dealing with,” she said.

The Supreme Court contributed to the problem with its Citizens United
decision, Clinton added. The 2010 decision unleashed a flood of cash into
politics from corporations and wealthy individuals.

“The hamster wheel is going so fast, it’s hard to see how anyone even keeps
up, let alone solve problems,” she said.

Schwab, who said he’d asked Clinton in the 1990s if a woman should be
president, couldn’t help but ask again.

“I’ve known a lot of the women world leaders, presidents and prime
ministers, and I do hope that the United states joins the ranks of those
countries that have really overcome that hurdle to gender equality,” she
replied.

“But it’s just a hypothetical. I don’t want to make any news today,” she
added, laughing.

Clinton spent most of her prepared remarks describing the Clinton
Foundation’s Too Small to Fail initiative, which works to build the
language skills of low-income children.

But being a tech conference, she couldn’t but joke about social media.
Noting that Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s shoes have their own Twitter
account, Clinton asked, “What do you think, should I start
@HillarysPantSuit?”

She also said the company’s mascot, “SaaSy,” is her favorite mascot name
and added that she admired the conferences’ values of “Innovation, fun, and
giving back.”

“We have a big fun deficit,” she said.

Clinton has worked hard to court the exploding tech sector, visiting the
campuses of Google, Facebook, and Twitter earlier this year. She praised
the sector’s innovation Tuesday, but also warned that we have to make sure
its benefits outweigh its “pitfalls.”

*The Hill blog: Ballot Box: “Hillary Clinton criticizes state of the media”
<http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/220689-hillary-clinton-criticizes-state-of-the-media>*

By Peter Sullivan

October 14, 2014, 1:56 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton laid out a critique of the current state of the media on
Tuesday, saying it has created "hurdles for people who want to serve."

"If you look at how much time used to be spent reporting the news, the real
news, not analyzing it, but reporting the news, in the 1960s and 70s
compared to now, it's dramatically shrunk," Clinton said during a question
and answer session at the Dreamforce technology conference in San
Francisco. "And people are looking for the best angle, the quickest hit,
the biggest embarrassment, instead of in a democracy doing what we should
be doing, which is giving people information so they can be decision makers
since as voters indeed they are," she said.

Clinton has had a long, fraught relationship with the media, from the
Monica Lewinsky scandal and other battles of the 1990s to the present.
Clinton ally David Brock founded Media Matters, an organization dedicated
to countering what it views as "conservative misinformation" in the media.

One possible reason Clinton could decide not to run for president is not
wanting to go through the media scrutiny again, and she spoke of the
barrier that presents for candidates on Tuesday.

"For me, we have created very difficult hurdles for people who want to
serve, who believe they can lead, to be able to do so, and the media has
intensified that over time," she said.

It is not just the media, Clinton said, making the current environment
difficult, but growing fundraising needs, as well.

She said when she was a senator, she spoke to older senators who "bemoaned"
that they now had to spend all their time fundrasiing.

"They’re on the fundraising march, and they don’t get to know their
colleagues, they don’t play golf, they don’t play cards, they don’t have
dinner, have their children meet each other," Clinton said.

In an apparent reference to the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United
decision, she added the role of money has worsened.

"And then with the changes from the Supreme Court, and huge amount of
unregulated money that is flooding into the elections, the hamster wheel is
going so fast that it's almost hard to imagine how anybody could keep up,
let alone think about solving problems," she said.

*Associated Press: “2016 questions abound as Jeb Bush stumps for son”
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/53bbcff66b814daa87eb87da91a2b509/2016-questions-abound-jeb-bush-stumps-son>*

By Michael J. Mishak and Will Wiessert

October 14, 2014, 6:33 p.m. EDT

ABILENE, Texas (AP) — Jeb Bush headed deep into the plains of West Texas on
Tuesday, eager to campaign for his favored candidate for the office of
state land commissioner. That would be his son, George P. Bush.

But amid the cattle auctions, smokehouse barbeque and fried pies, the
voters the former Florida governor was trying to win over were already
sold. They're eager to vote for a Bush, and not just for land commissioner.
For president, too.

"Governor, who do you support for president?" supporter Blake Norvell
shouted as Bush and his son posed for pictures at Hardin-Simmons University
in Abilene.

Bush smirked. "That's a trick question," he said as cameras flashed.

Norvell shot back: "But you're the only one who can win."

"Well, we'll see," Bush said.

Tuesday's campaign swing, a bus tour that started early in Fort Worth and
headed toward the oil town of Midland, was designed to inject some of Jeb
Bush's political celebrity into George P. Bush's campaign for an office
with a sleepy title that's a stepping stone to bigger things in Texas
politics.

That celebrity comes in no small part because so many Republicans are
waiting on Jeb Bush to decide what he's going to do in 2016. His son, a
38-year-old attorney and officer in the U.S. Naval Reserve, is a part of
that calculus: Bush has repeatedly said that he must determine whether a
presidential campaign would be right for his family.

"I don't want to do anything that would make it harder for George to be
successful in his pursuits, for sure," Bush said in an interview with The
Associated Press on his son's campaign bus.

Bush said his mother, the former first lady who declared last year there
had been "enough Bushes" in the White House, was now "neutral, trending in
a different direction." His wife, Columba, is "supportive" of a potential
presidential campaign, he said.

"But that doesn't mean that I don't understand the challenges that this
brings," Bush said. "This is ultimately my decision with as much
consideration as I can to take into account the people that I really love."

He quickly added that son George P. would be able to weather any
complications a presidential campaign would bring, just as he himself did
when staking out a career as Florida governor in a family where his father
and brother have both held title to the Oval Office.

"My only request — he didn't seek my advice on whether he runs or not — is
that I write the first check," Bush said. "Mission accomplished." And then
some: It was for $50,000.

For his part, George P. Bush stayed on message as a candidate up for
election in just a few weeks. He'd like to help his father run for
president, he said, should Dad decide to do so, but "he knows that if I'm
privileged to serve the state ... my focus has to be on this agency."

Unlike several other Republicans said to be considering runs for the White
House, Jeb Bush has kept a relatively low profile for much of the year,
sticking to paid speeches and private fundraisers. He has headlined more
than two dozen fundraisers for Republican candidates and committees,
including campaigns for governor in Iowa, South Carolina and Nevada. Those
will be three of the first four states to hold early presidential primaries.

Now, in the final stretch of the midterm campaign, he is making a public
push to boost candidates in some of the most heated Senate and
gubernatorial races in the country.

Such help isn't all that necessary in the race for Texas land commissioner.
George P. Bush is expected to cruise to an easy win in deeply conservative
Texas. Still, that didn't dampen Dad's enthusiasm.

"I invited myself. I love him," Bush said of his son. "He doesn't need me;
the guy is grinding it out. He's worked harder than any candidate probably
running for office in Texas, so he could do it on his own, but he was kind
enough to let the old guy show up."

After listening to George P. Bush deliver a campaign speech at
Hardin-Simmons about "the politics of aspiration" and what he characterized
as an overbearing federal government, Jeb Bush beamed.

"You heard him speak. I taught him everything I know," Jeb Bush told the
crowd. "And somehow he managed to do even better."

Bush urged the crowd in Abilene to vote for other Republicans, too, in
November, saying, "If we can fix a few big things, this country will take
off."

"Republicans could show that they could govern like grown-ups and begin to
forge consensus," he said.

He did not, however, mention whether he would try to play a bigger role in
the country's future, and it remains an issue he'd just as soon not talk
about. When asked about the potential of a White House bid in his interview
with the AP, Bush shot back: "You're about ready to get a 15-yard penalty
and loss of down here."

But out in the crowd of Republicans in Abilene, potential voters who were
all for his son, the question they had was still if they would be able to
cast votes for the father.

"It's the question we all want the answer to," one woman said as she
shuffled off once Bush left the room.

*Calendar:*

*Sec. Clinton's upcoming appearances as reported online. Not an official
schedule.*

·  October 15 – Louisville, KY: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Alison Lundergan
Grimes (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/alison-lundergan-grimes-hillary-clinton-111779.html>
)

·  October 16 – MI: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Rep. Gary Peters and Mark
Schauer in Michigan (AP
<https://twitter.com/KThomasDC/status/520243743170236416>)

·  October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for House
Democratic women candidates with Nancy Pelosi (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/08/hillary-clinton-nancy-pelosi-110387.html?hp=r7>
)

·  October 20 – San Francisco, CA: Sec. Clinton fundraises for Senate
Democrats (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  October 24 – RI: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Rhode Island gubernatorial
nominee Gina Raimondo (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-gina-raimondo-rhode-island-elections-111750.html>
)

·  November 2  – NH: Sec. Clinton appears at a GOTV rally for Gov. Hassan
and Sen. Shaheen (AP
<http://bigstory.ap.org/article/03fe478acd0344bab983323d3fb353e2/clinton-planning-lengthy-campaign-push-month>
)

·  December 1 – New York, NY: Sec. Clinton keynotes a League of
Conservation Voters dinner (Politico
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/09/hillary-clinton-green-groups-las-vegas-111430.html?hp=l11>
)

·  December 4 – Boston, MA: Sec. Clinton speaks at the Massachusetts
Conference for Women (MCFW <http://www.maconferenceforwomen.org/speakers/>)