Politico Magazine featured Hillary Clinton on last Friday’s cover with an article entitled: “What Is Hillary’s Greatest Accomplishment? Carly Fiorina dared Democrats to name it. 20 top Dems accepted the challenge.”
Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina lashed out at Clinton during last Wednesday’s Republican debate, stating: “If you want to stump a Democrat, ask them to name an accomplishment of Hillary Clinton.”
As Politico Magazine reports, “It’s a question that even, at times, has tripped up Clinton herself,” and it’s one that “has also tripped up members of the Obama administration,” as well as Clinton supporters.
To answer this question, Politico Magazine “asked the nation’s top Democratic leaders and thinkers to name Hillary Clinton’s biggest accomplishment,” last Thursday:
What is the most impressive item on Clinton’s record? Which legislative or policy triumph from her many years in office will be most important on the campaign trail? Not surprisingly, those surveyed all came up with an answer to defend their party’s likely presidential nominee. Whether these count as “marquee,” “significant,” or “tangible”? You be the judge.
Below are ten summaries from the full list. You can go to Politico Magazine to read their full responses.
1. ‘The sanction on Iran that brought them to the table’ Howard Dean is the former governor of Vermont and the former chair of the Democratic National Committee.
2. ‘Nearly every foreign policy victory of President Obama’s second term has Secretary Clinton’s fingerprints on it’ By Harry Reid, Senate Democratic leader.
3. ‘The SCHIP program … which expanded health coverage to millions of lower-income children’ By Anita Dunn, Democratic political strategist.
4. ‘Rebuilding America’s leadership and prestige overseas after the Bush years’ Bill Richardson is a former secretary of energy and governor of New Mexico.
5. ‘The Pediatric Research Equity Act’ By Chris Dodd, former U.S. Senator for Connecticut, Democratic party.
6. ‘Crippling sanctions against Iran’ By Paul Begala, political analyst for CNN and counselor to President Bill Clinton.
7. ‘She was the point person … compelling the Chinese to commit to cutting carbon emissions.’ By David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to President Barack Obama.
8. ‘The Adoption and Safe Families Act’ By Neera Tanden, President of the Center for American Progress.
9. ‘The new START Treaty’ By Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist.
10. ‘A relentless advocate for women and children’ By Douglas Schoen, pollster for President Bill Clinton.
BONUS: ‘Galvanizing the Senate after the tragedy of 9/11’ By Barbara Boxer, U.S. Senator for California, Democratic party.
Barbara Boxer probably put it best when she pointed out that “Carly Fiorina wishes she had accomplished in a lifetime what Hillary Clinton has accomplished in any given year–from leading efforts to impose the toughest Iran sanctions in history to making women’s rights central to our foreign policy to galvanizing the Senate after the tragedy of 9/11 to rebuild the city and take care of our brave first responders.”
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