BHO is directly to blame for HRC in the sense that the Sec. of State appointment allowed her to temporarily boost her favorability rating.
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If you recall, around 2012-2014 there was much talk from Bill and others about how HRC was the "world's most admired woman" or some such.
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She attained this (highly questionable) distinction because the Sec. of State position allowed her to adopt an air of being "above politics"
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Which is ironic because she clearly ran the State Dept. in a highly politicized manner, as emails and other info subsequently demonstrated.
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An email released this week showed how State Dept. staff plotted ways to garner her "soft media buzz" -- i.e. apolitical-seeming prestige.
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The "apolitical esteem" boost enabled her to accrue just enough favorability to get through the D primary, despite being relatively disliked
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And if she'd spent the BHO years in a highly-charged political role, she may have never been positioned to run in 2016. So blame BHO. Fin.
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