Hillary Clinton is running for Barack Obama’s third term whether she says so or not. Here’s what she did say at the Democratic debate in Milwaukee this month. “I want to follow up on something having to do with leadership, because, you know, today Senator Sanders said that President Obama failed the presidential leadership test. And this is not the first time that he has criticized President Obama. In the past he has called him weak. He has called him a disappointment. … And I just couldn’t disagree more with those kinds of comments. ... The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans. I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination to succeed President Obama.”
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Hillary Clinton is running for Barack Obama’s third term whether she says so or not. Here’s what she did say at the Democratic debate in Milwaukee this month. “I want to follow up on something having to do with leadership, because, you know, today Senator Sanders said that President Obama failed the presidential leadership test. And this is not the first time that he has criticized President Obama. In the past he has called him weak. He has called him a disappointment. … And I just couldn’t disagree more with those kinds of comments. ... The kind of criticism that we’ve heard from Senator Sanders about our president I expect from Republicans. I do not expect from someone running for the Democratic nomination to succeed President Obama.”
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