White House Graciously Withholds Praise For Hillary Clinton

Posted by | May 19, 2015 22:00 | Filed under: Contributors Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher



Former Secretary of State and current future Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has been threading the flaming needle that is the Senator Elizabeth Warren/President Obama feud for the soul of the Democratic Party, and on Tuesday, she got a little help from White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. To date, Clinton has managed to walk the line on trade by expressing concerns about the deals that are currently wending their way through Congress, while also reserving judgment until the final Trans-Pacific Partnership deal is released.

The White House, for its part, has done its level best to stay out of 2016 politics, but a couple of months ago, Fox News’ Ed Henry managed to crack their prime directive when he asked Press Secretary Josh Earnest to describe Clinton’s role, as secretary of state, in bringing Iran to the table for the current nuclear deal. At that time, Earnest was effusive in his praise of Clinton’s efforts in that regard, so at Tuesday’s White House daily briefing, I asked Earnest of he’d offer a similar assessment of her tenure in the administration on the issue of trade.

Let’s just say he was less than eager to help out…READ MORE

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By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

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