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*​**Correct The Record Friday October 24, 2014 Morning Roundup:*

*Headlines:*

*Politico: Hillary Clinton takes a shot at banks, Walker
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-banks-scott-walker-2016-elections-112159.html>*

Hillary Clinton on Thursday sounded a sharply populist note as she framed
herself as a foe of big banks and also took a veiled shot at potential 2016
opponent Scott Walker during a fiery speech in Minnesota.

*Star Tribune: Hillary Clinton: Remain a model for how democracy works
<http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/280259502.html>*

“’What you have accomplished in the years since our terrible economic
crisis is a real model. Now the rest of us want to see what else you can do
because we’re looking for models. We’re looking to see what works,’ Hillary
Clinton told the crowd of 2,000 mostly Macalester College students who
waited for hours in a line that snaked across campus.”

*New York Times: Another Twist in the Drama of the Clintons and the Cuomos
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/for-hillary-clinton-and-andrew-cuomo-a-dance-of-expediency.html?_r=1&referrer=>*

“As Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo seeks a second term in his father’s old office and
Hillary Rodham Clinton considers another run for the White House, a Cuomo
rally in Manhattan on Thursday seemed the clearest signal yet that Mr.
Cuomo, 56, would put aside his own presidential ambitions to support Mrs.
Clinton should she run.”

*New York Observer: Hillary Clinton Boosts Andrew Cuomo and His Women’s
Equality Party
<http://observer.com/2014/10/hillary-clinton-boosts-andrew-cuomo-and-his-womens-equality-party/>*

“Former Secretary of State and potential presidential contender Hillary
Clinton brought a little extra enthusiasm to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign
and his Women’s Equality Party Thursday — urging women to vote in their own
interests for Mr. Cuomo.”

*Politico: Rand Paul lays out foreign policy fundamentals
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/rand-paul-foreign-policy-fundamentals-112164.html>*

“Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) slammed Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama
for U.S. military action in Libya, saying it helped create a ‘jihadist
wonderland’ and had a destabilizing effect that has made America ‘less
safe’ in a foreign policy address Thursday night.”

*BuzzFeed: White House Meetings Aim To Keep Outsiders In The Loop — And
Friendly
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/white-house-meetings-aim-to-keep-outsiders-in-the-loop-and-f>*

“Since last year, President Obama’s chief of staff has convened regular
meetings in his West Wing office with a rotating cast of domestic and
foreign policy experts, pundits, and former officials from the Obama and
Clinton administrations.”

*Providence Journal: Hillary Clinton to visit Rhode Island Friday in
support of Raimondo’s run for governor
<http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20141023-hillary-clinton-to-visit-rhode-island-friday-in-support-of-raimondos-run-for-governor.ece>*

“Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady and secretary of state, is
scheduled to visit Rhode Island Friday to support fellow Democrat Gina
Raimondo’s campaign for governor.”

*WCBV News: Hillary Clinton campaigns for Coakley
<http://www.wcvb.com/news/hillary-clinton-campaigns-for-coakley-in-boston/29313594>*

“Hillary Rodham Clinton is campaigning with Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Martha Coakley in Boston as the race for Massachusetts governor
remains extremely close.”

*Associated Press: Hillary Clinton in Maine to stump for Michaud
<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=UDRXNITN>*

“The former Secretary of State and first lady of the United States will
appear at the school on Friday with Michaud, who's in a race with
Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler.”

*Articles:*

*Politico: Hillary Clinton takes a shot at banks, Walker
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/hillary-clinton-banks-scott-walker-2016-elections-112159.html>*

By Katie Glueck

October 23, 2014 7:38 p.m. EDT

Hillary Clinton on Thursday sounded a sharply populist note as she framed
herself as a foe of big banks and also took a veiled shot at potential 2016
opponent Scott Walker during a fiery speech in Minnesota.

Clinton, the former secretary of state and possible 2016 Democratic
front-runner, has been criticized by some on the left as being too close to
Wall Street. But she took a tough, progressive line as she stumped for Sen.
Al Franken and Gov. Mark Dayton, both Democrats who are expected to handily
win their races, at an appearance at Macalester College in St. Paul.

 “Al has pushed for more and better oversight of the big banks and risky
financial activity,” said Clinton, a former senator from New York. “And
there’s more work for him to do. Even before the big [economic] meltdown, a
lot of us were calling for regulating derivatives and other complex
financial products, closing the carried-interest loophole, getting control
of skyrocketing CEO pay, addressing other excesses, and we’ve made
progress. But there’s a lot of unfinished business to make sure we don’t
end up once again with big banks taking big risks and leaving taxpayers
holding the bag.”

Many liberals who see Clinton as too friendly to business interests
consider Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts more in line with the
progressive wing of the Democratic Party, and some have pushed Warren to
challenge Clinton for the 2016 nomination.

Warren has said she has ruled out a White House bid, though a recent People
magazine interview fueled speculation she was reconsidering after she said
only that she didn’t “think” she would run. The senator also has been on
the trail repeatedly, and earlier this week delivered a spirited speech in
Iowa on behalf of Senate hopeful Bruce Braley. Clinton is expected to stump
for Braley in Iowa next week.

Clinton segued into the discussion about banks by telling the audience that
“every election is about the future,” and saying the candidates are
thinking about “the big problems that await.”

During her speech to the university crowd on Thursday, Clinton painted
Minnesota as an ideal Democratic haven.

“His smart, progressive policies have worked,” she said of Dayton. Taking
an apparent jab at Walker, the Republican governor of Wisconsin, she added,
“All you have to do is just take a moment and compare his policies and how
they have worked to your neighbor’s policies and how they have not.”

Clinton also appeared to boost President Barack Obama, who is unpopular in
much of the country, as she recalled the harsh economic climate he
inherited when he took office in 2009 and reminded the audience how much
better off people are now. She also gave substantial credit to Dayton, who
supported her in her 2008 presidential bid; the Minnesota governor said he
hoped he would have the chance to do so again in 2016.

During the speech, Clinton ticked through a list of liberal priorities —
climate change, student loan reform, health care, same-sex marriage — as
she touted the Democratic ticket.

Clinton has substantially stepped up her political activity in recent
months as she has campaigned for 2014 contenders, and has developed several
refrains about the opportunities hard-working people deserve — a theme that
was on display again on Thursday night.

“The only direction that matters in life is forward,” she said. “Never
quit. Never lose faith. When you get knocked down get right back up,
recognize there is worth and dignity in every human being and that everyone
— everyone — deserves not just a chance but a second chance and even a
third chance and a better life for themselves and their families.”

Franken, a former star of “Saturday Night Live,” gave a rousing speech
about what’s at stake in 2014, and noted that he and Clinton — both new
grandparents — want all children to have the same opportunities that their
grandkids will enjoy.

But he also squeezed in a couple of jokes about the Clintons.

“I would add, she’s funny,” Franken said after praising Clinton’s tenure in
the Senate and at the State Department. “…I wouldn’t say it if I didn’t
mean it. For example, her husband, Bill. A brilliant thinker. A universally
respected statesman. The greatest post-World War II president of the 20th
century. Not particularly funny. At least, not as funny as Hillary. Hillary
is truly, truly funny.”

When Clinton took the stage, she deadpanned, “He said I was funny. I really
appreciate that. I tried out for ‘SNL.’ Didn’t make it. I thought I was
pretty good. Couldn’t cut it.”

*Star Tribune: Hillary Clinton: Remain a model for how democracy works
<http://www.startribune.com/politics/statelocal/280259502.html>*

By Abby Simons

October 23, 2014 11:38 p.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] She stumped for state’s DFL leaders, citing their achievements
in the wake of the recession.

The most recent in a succession of Democratic heavyweights to stump on
behalf of Minnesota political candidates told a young St. Paul crowd that
their state should continue its political successes as an example of
effective democracy.

“What you have accomplished in the years since our terrible economic crisis
is a real model. Now the rest of us want to see what else you can do
because we’re looking for models. We’re looking to see what works,” Hillary
Clinton told the crowd of 2,000 mostly Macalester College students who
waited for hours in a line that snaked across campus.

“The states are great laboratories of democracy. We should be learning what
works and what doesn’t. Minnesota is at the top of the list.”

The former first lady, U.S. senator and secretary of state visited the
Macalester campus in St. Paul, playing to an enthusiastic and friendly
crowd that clamored for selfies afterward. It was the second rally in three
days in support of DFL Gov. Mark Dayton and Sen. Al Franken, who face
re-election challenges from Hennepin County Commissioner Jeff Johnson and
businessman Mike McFadden, respectively. Afterward, she headlined a private
fundraiser for Dayton, co-hosted by Franken and Sen. Amy Klobuchar, where
tickets ranged from $150 to $2,500.

But Minnesota Republicans fired back in response to Clinton’s visit,
calling her an example of botched leadership.

“Hillary Clinton was the driving force of the failed Obama-Franken foreign
policy agenda,” said Keith Downey, chairman of the Republican Party of
Minnesota. “Americans are worried about their safety and security while Al
Franken and President Obama continue to lead from behind.”

Big names lend support

Clinton, widely considered a favorite for the 2016 presidential nomination,
visited St. Paul on the same day another potential presidential contender,
Vice President Joe Biden, visited Duluth and Hibbing to tout domestic
violence prevention measures and to campaign for U.S. Rep. Rick Nolan, who
is in a tough race against GOP challenger Stewart Mills in the Eighth
District. Their visit followed a Tuesday rally by First Lady Michelle
Obama. Former President Bill Clinton preceded his spouse during a visit to
the University of Minnesota earlier this month.

In Hibbing, Biden echoed the urgency in the messages of other big-name
Democrats with less than two weeks until Election Day.

“Get out the vote. We cannot afford to lose this race. It’s important,”
Biden implored the crowd at Hibbing Community College, estimated by the
Nolan campaign at over 600.

Though Hillary Clinton made no mention of a presidential run, Dayton wasn’t
shy about Clinton’s prospects when he spoke, emphasizing the need to
maintain DFL control of the Minnesota Legislature and governor’s office.

“I supported Hillary Clinton’s run for presidency in 2008, and I hope I
have the opportunity to do so in 2016,” he said to wild cheers.

Praises state’s progress

Distinguishing herself from Michelle Obama’s earlier speech, which focused
on the urgency of the elections and the need for early voting, Clinton
spent most of her time touting the state’s marquee Democratic candidates
and accusing Republicans of ignoring what she called Minnesota’s economic
resurgence and socially progressive legislation.

“This is a great story, and it’s a story that is the best kind of story
because it’s based on the truth. It actually happened,” she said. “What a
novel idea that voters would be making decisions based on evidence, not
scare tactics and negative television ads.”

After the rally, Macalester freshmen Caroline Duncombe, Celia Heudebourg
and Delanee Hawkins, all 18, shook with excitement after meeting Clinton.
They’re backing the Democrats in their first-ever election, based on issues
like student loans, health care and women’s rights, but the star of the
night for them was Clinton.

“She really has the power to change the world, especially for women’s
rights,” Hawkins said. “She does have a platform where she can end
stereotypes about women in power.”

*New York Times: Another Twist in the Drama of the Clintons and the Cuomos
<http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/10/24/nyregion/for-hillary-clinton-and-andrew-cuomo-a-dance-of-expediency.html?_r=1&referrer=>*

By Amy Chozick and Thomas Kaplan

October 23, 2014

Heading into the 1992 presidential campaign, the long-shot candidacy of
Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas rested largely on whether Gov. Mario M. Cuomo
of New York, who was considered a presumptive front-runner, decided to
enter the race. Mr. Cuomo, of course, did not, and the rest is history.

What a difference a couple of decades and a two-term presidency can make.

As Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo seeks a second term in his father’s old office and
Hillary Rodham Clinton considers another run for the White House, a Cuomo
rally in Manhattan on Thursday seemed the clearest signal yet that Mr.
Cuomo, 56, would put aside his own presidential ambitions to support Mrs.
Clinton should she run.

“They ask me all the time about Hillary Clinton: ‘What’s Hillary going to
do? What do you think?’ ” Mr. Cuomo said at the rally. “I say, ‘Well,
Hillary Clinton is so good that whatever she does, she’s going to be an
overwhelming success,’ ” he added. “ ‘And I hope she does something really,
really, really big.’ That’s what I hope.”

If the role reversal seemed complete — a Clinton’s star power being used to
drum up enthusiasm amid a Cuomo’s sagging approval ratings — the event was
only the most recent twist in an up-and-down, decades-long relationship
between two of New York’s most powerful political families.

Considered cordial but not close, the Clintons and the Cuomos have forged
alliances when it has suited them. Mr. Clinton developed genuine respect
for Andrew Cuomo’s political savvy, and vice versa. But the relationship
has not been without awkwardness.

The tension dates back to when Mr. Clinton, then a young governor from the
South hoping to pay his respects to Gov. Mario Cuomo, arrived at the
Capitol in Albany only to be told the governor was “much too busy,” said a
prominent Democrat who was told firsthand about the episode. That person,
like several others interviewed for this article, insisted on anonymity to
preserve a relationship. (“In fairness, Mario would have made the pope
wait,” a former aide to the elder Mr. Cuomo said.)

Then, in 1992, in a phone conversation with Gennifer Flowers, when Ms.
Flowers said she would not be surprised if Mario Cuomo, who is
Italian-American, had “Mafioso major connections,” Mr. Clinton said the
governor “acts like one.” (Mr. Clinton apologized, but Mr. Cuomo seized on
the comment to portray Mr. Clinton as insensitive to ethnic minorities.)

Mrs. Clinton has less of a connection to Andrew Cuomo than does Mr.
Clinton, who relied on him for policy and political advice when Mr. Cuomo
led the federal housing department. Mrs. Clinton is said to be more dubious
of Mr. Cuomo’s intentions and his sharp-elbowed style. A spokesman for Mrs.
Clinton said Mr. Cuomo “has been a tireless advocate for New York” and that
“she was proud to campaign for him.”

It was all smiles at the rally on Thursday when Mrs. Clinton took the stage
at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan to chants of “2016!” Mrs.
Clinton left no question about her support for Mr. Cuomo. “There’s no doubt
in my mind that the governor is the right leader at the right time with the
right plan to keep New York moving forward,” she said.

“And it’s not just because I’ve known Andrew Cuomo for such a long time and
had a chance to see him in action in the Clinton administration, then as I
served as your senator for eight years,” she added.

Still, Mr. Cuomo has not joined other prominent Democrats — including
Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago and
Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia — in offering an early endorsement of Mrs.
Clinton’s candidacy.

“Hillary Clinton can’t be endorsed because Hillary Clinton hasn’t said
she’s running for anything,” Andrew Cuomo said to reporters on Thursday. “I
went through this with another person named Mario Cuomo, where there was a
discussion for many years: ‘Is he going to run? Is he not going to run?’ ”

Indeed, veteran Clinton aides still remember the sighs of relief in Little
Rock, Ark., when Mario Cuomo decided not to run. “We knew then we had a
real path to the presidency,” said Paul Begala, a longtime Clinton
strategist.

In the younger Mr. Cuomo, Mr. Clinton identified a shrewd political
operative who was not afraid to spar with a sitting president, several
people who worked in Mr. Clinton’s White House said. Mr. Clinton invited
Andrew Cuomo to attend small strategy sessions and at one point included
him on a short list for his chief of staff.

“If there have been two people who have been real mentors to Andrew Cuomo,
it’s Bill Clinton and his father, Mario Cuomo,” said Phil Singer, a senior
adviser to the State Democratic Party who has worked for both Mrs. Clinton
and Andrew Cuomo.

The Clintons remained officially neutral in the Democratic primary for
governor in 2002 when Andrew Cuomo ran against the eventual nominee, H.
Carl McCall, before dropping out. But at the time, they sent signals that
they were leaning toward Mr. McCall, and in his new memoir, “All Things
Possible,” Mr. Cuomo wrote he later learned some Clinton advisers had
quietly been helping Mr. McCall.

At the State Fair near Syracuse, a ritual stop for New York politicians,
the Clintons “didn’t go out of their way to say hello,” Mr. Cuomo recalled,
and he did not even manage a photo with them.

Mr. Cuomo also wrote about his horror when spotting Mrs. Clinton marching
next to Mr. McCall at the West Indian American Day Parade in Brooklyn,
another must-attend event shortly before the primary. “It didn’t matter
whether or not Senator Clinton was actually endorsing McCall officially,”
he wrote. “That’s how it looked to the world, including me.”

The question of the Clintons’ loyalties no longer lingers. “They still
ended up having a close relationship with him, and with me,” Mr. McCall
said on Thursday.

The rally on Thursday was one of more than a dozen campaign stops across
the country that Mrs. Clinton has headlined on behalf of Democrats ahead of
the midterm elections. It focused on the issue of women’s equality, which
Mr. Cuomo has made a centerpiece of his bid for a second term.

The rally also gave a jolt of energy to a re-election campaign that at
times has seemed to be going through the motions. Mr. Cuomo holds a wide
lead over his Republican challenger, Rob Astorino, the Westchester County
executive, and his campaign schedule has been relatively light as the
election approaches.

The Cuomo rally was a must stop for Mrs. Clinton, who lives in Chappaqua,
N.Y., and works out of a personal office in Manhattan. “If she runs, she
doesn’t want to get hit in the kneecaps by New Yorkers saying she was all
over the country but didn’t do anything at home,” the Rev. Al Sharpton said.

It appeared that many at the rally had come to see Mrs. Clinton: After her
speech, as Mr. Cuomo prepared to follow her, a number of people headed for
the exit.

*New York Observer: Hillary Clinton Boosts Andrew Cuomo and His Women’s
Equality Party
<http://observer.com/2014/10/hillary-clinton-boosts-andrew-cuomo-and-his-womens-equality-party/>*

By Jillian Jorgensen

October 23, 2014 2:29 p.m. EDT

Former Secretary of State and potential presidential contender Hillary
Clinton brought a little extra enthusiasm to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s campaign
and his Women’s Equality Party Thursday — urging women to vote in their own
interests for Mr. Cuomo.

“Let’s not kid ourselves. We have not achieved equality,” Ms. Clinton told
the crowd at the Grand Hyatt in Midtown during a Women’s Equality Party
rally. “We have not yet seen the kind of progress on all of the issues that
will ripple from this ballroom out to every woman and girl in New York and
beyond.”

Ms. Clinton lauded the Women’s Equality Act and the new party, which Mr.
Cuomo and his running mate, former Congresswoman Kathy Hochul, have been
plugging in statewide bus tour. Ms. Clinton said until women are guaranteed
equal pay for equal work, or are guaranteed the right to an abortion and
birth control options, women would never be truly equal.

“Why… do we still act as if it’s 1955? Why do we think a 20th century
economy is going to work for our 21st century families? The fact that women
still get paid less than men for the same work costs them and their
families thousands of dollars every year,” Ms. Clinton said.

Beyond the Women’s Equality Act, Ms. Clinton cited a need for a living wage
and reliable childcare if women are to be able to enter and remain in the
middle class. She spoke about her own experience as a mother, recalling a
time when her daughter, Chelsea Clinton — who just gave birth to Ms.
Clinton’s first granddaughter — woke up sick. Ms. Clinton said she had to
be in court for a trial; her husband was out of town and her babysitter
ill. Eventually, she found a trusted friend to watch Chelsea.

“I felt terrible that I had to leave my sick child at all. I called home at
every break, and I rushed back to the house as soon as I could. And when I
opened the door, I saw my friend reading to Chelsea, who was thankfully
feeling better. And for the first time that day, my own head and stomach
stopped aching,” Ms. Clinton said. “But think about that — for so many moms
and dads, that ache is with them every single day. Our most vulnerable
families have the least support.”

Ms. Clinton said it shouldn’t be that way — and that each generation ought
to have it better than the one before.

“That’s why I am here today. I want you to know how much I believe in
electing Andrew Cuomo and Kathy Hochul,” Ms. Clinton said. “They will fight
for every woman and every family to have a fair shot. And here’s what they
will never do: they will never waffle on a woman’s right to make her own
reproductive choices. They will never shame and judge a woman for decisions
that are complex and deeply personal, decisions that belong to a woman, her
family, her faith, and her doctor. Not with her boss or with a politician.”

Mr. Cuomo picked up on that theme — attacking his opponent, GOP Westchester
County Executive Rob Astorino, for saying he was opposed to a woman’s right
to an abortion because of his religious beliefs.

“My opponent in this race says, ‘Well, my religion doesn’t recognize a
woman’s right to choose. I said, I understand that. This is not about your
religion. This is the law. This is civil rights,” Mr. Cuomo said.

Mr. Cuomo launched the party along with his running mate, Ms. Hochul, over
the summer. Some viewed it as a cynical ploy to siphon votes from the
Working Families Party, or to boost the ticket’s favorability with women
amidst a primary run against Zephyr Teachout. And Mr. Astorino, has said
the issue is a way for Mr. Cuomo to avoid discussing other things.

“People say a lot of things. I think it’s disrespectful to say the issue of
choice is a boogeyman. No it’s not. If you’re a woman, it’s not,” Mr. Cuomo
told reporters today.

Ms. Clinton also touted Mr. Cuomo’s record on gun control and passing
legalizing gay marriage in New York State — something else Mr. Cuomo spoke
about in his own speech, noting the state was a bit ahead of its time in
2011.

“When New York does it, it ripples all across the country, and all the
United States say, ‘Well, New York can do it, can we do it here?” Mr. Cuomo
asked, as Ms. Clinton rose from her seat to applaud. “And every politician
was asked, ‘do you support marriage equality?’ And when we passed marriage
equality, it was like dropping a pebble into the pond — it was like a
ripple going across the country.”

Mr. Cuomo said politicians up to the president were forced to clarify their
positions on gay marriage — and while he didn’t mention it, Ms. Clinton was
one of them. Ms. Clinton did not express support for gay marriage until
2013.

Ms. Clinton and Mr. Cuomo, who live near one another in Westchester County,
have occasionally marched together in parades — but this is the first time
that Ms. Clinton has stumped for the governor at a campaign-style event.

There are plenty of ties between the Clintons and the Cuomos — Mr. Cuomo
served as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President Bill
Clinton and today called himself a “personal friend” of Mr/ Clinton,
deeming Ms. Clinton “super.”

Mr. Cuomo is also considered a potential candidate for the 2016 Democratic
presidential nomination — but Ms. Clinton is widely viewed as a lock for
the nod, if she wants it.

*Politico: Rand Paul lays out foreign policy fundamentals
<http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/rand-paul-foreign-policy-fundamentals-112164.html>*

By Maggie Haberman

October 23, 2014 11:40 p.m. EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) slammed Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama
for U.S. military action in Libya, saying it helped create a “jihadist
wonderland” and had a destabilizing effect that has made America “less
safe” in a foreign policy address Thursday night.

Paul’s speech, at a dinner hosted by the Center for the National Interest —
a group founded by former President Richard Nixon — was an attempt to lay
out a broad foreign policy theme that nodded to his libertarian base but
also described circumstances in which American military involvement around
the globe is necessary. It was an attempt to balance both concepts, after a
year of being dinged by foreign policy hawks who see his views as
isolationist.

Paul has also been a frequent critic of Clinton, the former secretary of
State. But his take on Libya — which prior to the attack on the U.S.
consulate in Benghazi in 2012 was expected to be Clinton’s major foreign
policy success story — is a reminder that Republicans will frame that as an
enduring vulnerability in a 2016 presidential campaign.

While Clinton’s hawkish foreign policy views are problematic with her own
party’s base and where polling shows the majority of the country stands
right now with regard to intervention elsewhere around the globe, Paul’s
past views are problematic with some in his own party — particularly donors.

“The war in Libya was not in our national interest. It had no clear goal
and it led to less stability,” Paul said at the Essex House hotel in
Midtown Manhattan.

“Today, Libya is a jihadist wonderland, a sanctuary and safe haven for
terror groups across North Africa. Our ambassador was assassinated and our
embassy forced to flee over land to Tunisia. Jihadists today swim in our
embassy swimming pool. The Obama administration, urged on by Hillary
Clinton, wanted to go to war but didn’t anticipate the consequences of war.”

He added, “Libya is now more chaotic and America is less safe.” And he
faulted the White House for bypassing congressional authority.

“President Obama missed a chance to galvanize the country. He missed a
chance to lead,” he said.

He said he supported the fight against the terror group ISIL but not the
arming of some rebels in Syria, which he argued has been misguided.

Elsewhere in the speech, Paul said that America is currently drifting “from
crisis to crisis” amid weak leadership, but that voters don’t “see war as
the only solution.”

“Reagan had it right when he spoke to potential adversaries: ‘Our
reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will,’” he
said.

“After the tragedies of Iraq and Libya, Americans are right to expect more
from their country when we go to war. America shouldn’t fight wars where
the best outcome is stalemate. America shouldn’t fight wars when there is
no plan for victory. America shouldn’t fight wars that aren’t authorized by
the American people, by Congress.

“America should and will fight wars when the consequences … intended and
unintended … are worth the sacrifice. The war on terror is not over, and
America cannot disengage from the world.”

*BuzzFeed: White House Meetings Aim To Keep Outsiders In The Loop — And
Friendly
<http://www.buzzfeed.com/rubycramer/white-house-meetings-aim-to-keep-outsiders-in-the-loop-and-f>*

By Ruby Cramer

October 23, 2014 10:46 p.m. EDT

[Subtitle:] Obama’s chief of staff convenes a rotation of policy experts,
pundits, and advisers from the Obama and Clinton camps on big issues. “It
makes them feel good.”

Since last year, President Obama’s chief of staff has convened regular
meetings in his West Wing office with a rotating cast of domestic and
foreign policy experts, pundits, and former officials from the Obama and
Clinton administrations.

In a White House known for a trademark insularity, Denis McDonough has made
it a point to bring more people into the White House fold.

It’s not uncommon for officials from any administration to engage new
voices. And other senior White House aides hold similar gatherings with
stakeholders. But the McDonough meetings provide a glimpse at an approach
that has set Obama’s 44-year-old chief of staff apart from his three
predecessors in the role.

The meetings don’t have a name. Their objective, according to more than
five people who attended in the last year, is part outreach, part
team-building: McDonough explains strategy and solicits feedback, and
contacts from the outside feel included. Public shots at the
administration, which have nagged the president during his second term,
don’t fly as frequently from inside the Obama tent.

“When people aren’t engaged enough, they’re much more willing to attack,”
said one Democrat who has taken part in the McDonough meetings.

A second attendee put it this way: “You want to get invited back.”

The meetings, most held at the massive table inside McDonough’s office,
have not been held at a certain time each week or month. Instead, McDonough
has assembled a group whenever a pressing domestic or foreign policy story
dominates the news and the president’s time. Last month, he called a
meeting to discuss the fast rise of ISIS, the militant outfit that controls
parts of Syria and Iraq.

Many of the gatherings cater in large part to “talkers,” or communicators —
the former staffers and pundits who are on television or in touch with
reporters. But McDonough has also called meetings with a more senior group:
a conclave of foreign policy-focused experts and former high-level
officials like Tom Donilon, who served for three years as the president’s
national security advisor.

Philippe Reines, a longtime adviser to Hillary Clinton, has attended a
number of the McDonough meetings, according to three participants. Jeremy
Bash, the former chief of staff to Leon Panetta at the CIA and the
Pentagon, has also attended meetings, those sources said. (Last year, Bash
and Reines founded a consulting firm together called Beacon Global
Strategies.)

Both Clinton and Panetta have splintered from the administration at points
in the last year. A new book by Panetta, the former CIA director and
defense secretary, is biting at points about Obama. And in an interview
with the Atlantic this summer, Clinton criticized the expression White
House officials used to describe Obama’s foreign policy doctrine, “Don’t do
stupid stuff.” The tagline was not an “organizing principle,” she said in
the interview, causing a spate of negative headlines about the crack
between the Obama and Clinton camps.

But since Clinton left the State Department, she and her small staff have
stayed more in lockstep than not with the administration, even as she has
appeared on the campaign trail this month in states where the president is
disliked by Democratic voters.

The meetings typically work the same way each time, sources said.

McDonough’s office will send an invitation to selected guests a few days
before each meeting — sometimes the day before — with a brief, general
summary of a topic. The guest list, curated with the agenda in mind, has
been about as short as eight people and as long as 20. Other White House
officials also attend.

It’s McDonough who begins each conversation. “He usually has something that
he’s decided he wants to say,” said the first Democrat. Then he turns the
meeting over to his guests. “Denis is always humble,” said the second
attendee. “He’ll say, ‘But you guys are really the smart ones — you tell us
what’s going on.’” From there, others are encouraged to offer advice or ask
questions.

Before he was chief of staff, McDonough was a high-level National Security
Council staffer and Obama’s deputy national security advisor. The
discussions on foreign policy, where McDonough has spent his career in
government, are “more of a formal sounding board,” said a third official
who has attended.

“But the effect is still the same,” the person said. “It makes them feel
good.”

Other top Obama officials — including Jennifer Palmieri, the White House
communications director, and Valerie Jarrett, one of the president’s senior
advisors — host their own versions of the McDonough meetings, according to
the administration.

In a statement, Palmieri said, “Denis and other senior staff find these
engagements very useful. They always sharpen our thinking and give us good
ideas and perspective. It is also helpful for our friends to have a window
into our thinking. Our hope is that they are beneficial all around.”

The meetings are in particular keeping with McDonough’s approach to the top
executive office job. “Outreach” has become one of his hallmarks.

As a deputy national security advisor, McDonough hosted similar engagement
meetings, one source said. And when he became chief of staff, he very
publicly made the rounds in Congress, trying to broker a budget deal — an
effort reporters christened the McDonough “charm offensive” and the
“outreach offensive.”

Ask about McDonough’s style as chief of staff, and more than one person
will surely tell the story about his conference table.

When he moved into the large corner office reserved for the chief of staff,
McDonough arranged for the removal of the table. The simple but elegant
wooden table, which served the three chiefs of staff before him, hardly fit
10 people. McDonough sent it away, along with a couch and coffee table, to
make space for a longer utilitarian replacement that took up half the room.
The new table did not exactly resemble natural wood — but it did seat more
than double the guests.

One former official recalled that Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s first chief of
staff, kept the space like “a classic Washington office.” The wooden table
was there, the couch. The fireplace would be burning. “Now It’s like the
table is getting bigger and bigger,” the former aide joked, to fit more and
more people in the room.

But the obvious question about the meetings, and McDonough’s efforts to
reach out beyond the White House walls, is whether any of it’s working.

In the last year, Obama’s sixth as president, a number of his former top
aides, many of whom now have gigs on television as political commentators,
have found faults in public with their old boss. And two tell-all books by
former cabinet officials precipitated an unpleasant string of headlines for
the White House.

In his memoir earlier this year, Robert Gates, the former defense secretary
under Obama, wrote an unkind account of his time in the administration. And
the book by Panetta, published earlier this month, was just as harsh.
Obama, he wrote in one section, often “avoids the battle, complains, and
misses opportunity.”

Dan Pfeiffer, a White House senior advisor, has brushed the books off as
“fleeting.”

But a fourth attendee of the McDonough meetings had a different take:
“Clearly they should have just invited Leon Panetta.”

*Providence Journal: Hillary Clinton to visit Rhode Island Friday in
support of Raimondo’s run for governor
<http://www.providencejournal.com/breaking-news/content/20141023-hillary-clinton-to-visit-rhode-island-friday-in-support-of-raimondos-run-for-governor.ece>*

[No author mentioned]

October 23, 2014 1:00 a.m. EDT

Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady and secretary of state, is
scheduled to visit Rhode Island Friday to support fellow Democrat Gina
Raimondo’s campaign for governor.

Clinton, a frontrunner for the Democratic presidential ticket in 2016, will
appear with Raimondo at a 2 p.m. rally at Rhode Island College’s Recreation
Center.

It will be Clinton’s second campaign appearance for a Democratic candidate
for governor in as many days. On Thursday, she attended a rally in
Manhattan for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who is seeking reelection.

In an announcement of Friday’s event, Raimondo’s campaign said Clinton
would be “joining Gina in hosting a Rebuilding the Middle Class Event.”

Clinton appeared at RIC in February 2008, when she was running in the
Democratic presidential primary. And last July, she visited the Sam’s Club
store in Seekonk to sign copies of her memoir, “Hard Choices.”

In August, Clinton’s husband, former President Bill Clinton, spoke at the
Rhode Island Convention Center to support Democrat Seth Magaziner’s
campaign for general treasurer. Magaziner is the son of Ira Magaziner, a
longtime political adviser to the Clintons.

*WCBV News: Hillary Clinton campaigns for Coakley
<http://www.wcvb.com/news/hillary-clinton-campaigns-for-coakley-in-boston/29313594>*

[No author mentioned]

October 24, 2014 5:38 a.m. EDT

BOSTON —Hillary Rodham Clinton is campaigning with Democratic gubernatorial
candidate Martha Coakley in Boston as the race for Massachusetts governor
remains extremely close.

The former secretary of state, senator, first lady and likely 2016
presidential candidate will join Coakley at the downtown Park Plaza Hotel.
Clinton's visit comes after her husband, former President Bill Clinton,
campaigned for Coakley in Worcester last week.

Clinton then heads to Providence, Rhode Island, to campaign for Democratic
gubernatorial candidate and state treasurer Gina Raimondo.

Coakley, the state's attorney general, is in a tight race with Republican
candidate Charlie Baker that has drawn national attention - and star power.

First lady Michelle Obama campaigned for Coakley in Boston's Dorchester
neighborhood earlier this month, and Vice President Joe Biden will headline
a fundraiser on Oct. 29.

Baker, a former CEO of Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare, meanwhile, has had
former Massachusetts governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney and
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, head of the Republican Governors
Association and a possible 2016 presidential candidate, stump for him this
year.

Recent polls suggest Baker's campaign has gained momentum as the Nov. 4
election approaches.

A new poll by The Boston Globe shows Baker with the support of 45 percent
of those polled compared to 36 percent for Coakley, a 9 percentage point
advantage in a survey that carried a margin of error of 4 percentage
points. The live telephone survey of 500 likely Massachusetts voters was
conducted between Oct. 19 and Oct. 22, according to the Globe.

Democrats are looking to gain ground in state houses across the country
this year. The party currently holds 21 governor's offices to Republicans'
29. There are 36 gubernatorial elections this November.

Coakley also is looking to erase the memory of her surprise 2010 defeat to
then-state Sen. Scott Brown in the special election to succeed the late
U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy in Congress.

*Associated Press: Hillary Clinton in Maine to stump for Michaud
<http://m.apnews.com/ap/db_268748/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=UDRXNITN>*

[No author mentioned]

October 24, 2014

SCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) - Hillary Clinton is slated to make a stop at
Scarborough High School to campaign with Democratic gubernatorial nominee
Rep. Mike Michaud (MEE'-shoh).

The former Secretary of State and first lady of the United States will
appear at the school on Friday with Michaud, who's in a race with
Republican Gov. Paul LePage and independent Eliot Cutler.

Polls show LePage and Michaud are in a tight race and Cutler trailing.

Former President Bill Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama have also
campaigned with Michaud while New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has stumped
for LePage. President Barack Obama is expected to make an appearance at the
Portland Exposition Building on Oct. 30 to campaign for Michaud.

*Calendar:*

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

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

·  October 24 – Mass.: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Mass. gubernatorial
candidate Martha Coakley (CNN
<https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/522906865332944896>)

·  October 24 – NE: Sec. Clinton campaigns for ME gubernatorial candidate
Mike Michaud (PressHerald
<http://www.pressherald.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-to-stump-for-michaud-in-maine/>
)

·  October 25 – NC: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Sen. Kay Hagan (AP
<http://abc11.com/politics/hillary-rodham-clinton-to-campaign-for-hagan/356139/>
)

·  October 27 – NY: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Rep. Sean Patrick
Maloney (Capital
NY
<http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/city-hall/2014/10/8555194/hillary-clinton-stump-sean-patrick-maloney?top-featured-1>
)

·  October 29 – IA: Sec. Clinton campaigns for Iowa Democrats (CNN
<http://edition.cnn.com/2014/10/22/politics/hillary-clinton-iowa-october-29/index.html>
)

·  October 30 – Washington, DC: Sec. Clinton speaks at the launch of The
International Council on Women’s Business Leadership (CNN
<https://twitter.com/danmericaCNN/status/522470101749342208>)

·  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/>)