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8 May, 2015

Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime

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Chafee appears on Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime, where Maher prods him about when he’s going to announce his run for president. When Maher asks what distinguishes him from the other candidates, Chafee responds:

Certainly my record, and that is one, first of all, of high ethical standards over 30 years, as a mayor, as a governor, and as a United States senator.

Maher presses Chafee on the Clintons. Chafee cites Whitewater, “travelgate” and The Clinton Foundation.

Real Time with Bill Maher: Overtime – May 8, 2015 (HBO)

12 Apr, 2015

‘Hillary should not be President’

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On the day of Hillary Clinton‘s presidential announcement, Chafee states that Clinton had “precious few” accomplishments as secretary of state. On Clinton’s vote for the Iraq war:

That was just a moment in time where the premise for going to Iraq was so false that there were weapons of mass destruction — she didn’t do her homework, and we live with the ramifications today…And so you may say, oh, that’s 12 years ago, but we live with it today, and it’s a big motivator for why I’m running. If you show lack of judgment, lack of doing homework then, what can we expect in the future?

Chafee says that as secretary of state:

[Clinton] was kind of a muscular, top-down, unilateral, too close to neo-cons, too Bush-like.

CNN: Hillary Clinton's Iraq War Vote is a Red Flag!