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Re: Robert Gates: Obama White House â��offendedâ�� Hillary Clinton 

By: joe-taylor in FFFT | Recommend this post (2)
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Clo,


We have found most of Gates comments disappointing, especially in view of the fact that president Obama kept him on as secretary of defense after his election. Something he didn't really have to do. It would appear that Gates has juiced up his book to sell copy during a time when print book sales are struggling.

The part about the Obama administration being the most controlling since the Nixon WWhite house is questionable since Gates did not have much contact with the White House before 1974, the last year of the Nixon presidency.

We need to remember that Gates was and is a Republican who served in a Democrat administration and it would appear that he is trying to influence the coming election cycles with his tell all. It has always been our impression that Obama gave Hillary Clinton a great deal of latitude in her position as Secretary of State. As far as being deeply controlling on national security issues, where else would a president need to be more involved? As far as Gates comments about Obama losing faith in the mission in Afghanistan, Hell, we have all pretty much reached that conclusion over a similar period of time. After all, Afghanistan has been the longest American war and president Obama did jack up American involvement there after his election so he at least gave the mission a chance to succeed.


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Joe


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Robert Gates: Obama White House ‘offended’ Hillary Clinton
By: clo in FFFT
Wed, 08 Jan 14 4:05 PM 		Msg. 59811 of 65535

Robert Gates: Obama White House ‘offended’ Hillary Clinton

By KATIE GLUECK | 1/7/14 5:37 PM EST Updated: 1/7/14 9:23 PM EST
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton saw the Obama administration as deeply “controlling” on national security issues, Defense Secretary Bob Gates wrote Tuesday in an essay published adapted from his forthcoming book.

“The controlling nature of the Obama White House, and its determination to take credit for every good thing that happened while giving none to the career folks in the trenches who had actually done the work, offended Secretary Clinton as much as it did me,” Gates writes in an piece published by the Wall Street Journal.

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According to an early writeup of the book by Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, Gates at times writes reverentially about Clinton, who is expected to decide later this year whether to pursue a presidential bid.
“I found her smart, idealistic but pragmatic, tough-minded, indefatigable, funny, a very valuable colleague, and a superb representative of the United States all over the world,” Gates wrote.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/robert-gates-memoir-hillary-clinton-101858.html#ixzz2pnv2yKo5

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