{"id":6582,"date":"2014-01-20T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T21:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=6582"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:48:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:48:20","slug":"hillary-clintons-legacy-democracy-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/20\/hillary-clintons-legacy-democracy-egypt\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillary Clinton&#8217;s Legacy: Democracy in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A front page <em>Washington Post<\/em> piece revealed today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/as-clinton-finishes-new-memoir-the-battle-to-define-her-state-department-legacy-heats-up\/2014\/01\/19\/0be30c34-7e2c-11e3-9556-4a4bf7bcbd84_story.html\">Hillary Clinton is racing to finish her memoir<\/a> so that she can define her legacy in time for her 2016 presidential run.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, she promised to reform foreign aid. Egypt has gotten billions of aid in the meantime &#8211; thanks in part to Hillary&#8217;s shilling.\u00a0 After her devoted efforts\u00a0for the Egyptian regime, maybe this cartoon (inspired by last week&#8217;s<a href=\"http:\/\/cyprus-mail.com\/2014\/01\/17\/egypts-fraudulent-constitutional-referendum\/\">\u00a0bogus referendum on the new Constitution<\/a>) \u00a0best captures her achievement:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[ a Tom Toro cartoon from the New Yorker]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A front page Washington Post piece revealed today that Hillary Clinton is racing to finish her memoir so that she can define her legacy in time for her 2016 presidential run. Shortly after Hillary Clinton became Secretary of State, she promised to reform foreign aid. 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