Read the Interviews...Don't Just Read About Them

[tgards79]

They are substantively fascinating...and why Hillary goofed:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2014/08/two-must-read-interviewsread-them-dont_14.html

[littlemissmartypants]

1. Welcome to DU. eom

[MBS]

2. good message, thanks

0n two counts:
-- for people to actually read the full interviews, before flying off the handle based on media sound-bytes alone.
-- and also for your comments on the timing of HRC's interview.

I thought the Friedman-Obama interview (which I'd already seen) was excellent (for those who haven't seen it yet, there are also video clips of the interview, as well as text: it's worthwhile seeing and reading the whole thing). . it nicely demonstrated Obama's thoughtful, articulate perspective on global politics .

I agree with you completely about the timing of Hillary's interview. First of all, the timing is dumb politics, both for herself (I am presumably not the only Obama supporter who was alienated by her treatment of the president, quite apart from my feelings about the substance of her remarks), and for her fellow Democrats in the 2014 midterm elections (not to mention 2016). Why couldn't she have waited until after the November midterm elections? Have she and her staff learned nothing from their mistakes in the 2008 primaries? Second, it displayed a lack of graciousness, tact and (yes) diplomacy that continues to bother me. There's also the lack of loyalty, to a sitting president facing multiple crises (almost none of them of his making) at home and abroad, someone of her own party, and under whom she served. Yeah, yeah, "just politics", but still: given the value that Hillary reportedly places on loyalty to her, shouldn't she also understand the value of loyalty to others?

By the way, I like your website.