Kudos To Rachel Maddow For Her Hillary Clinton Interview

++Rachel Maddow managed to get the first interview with Hillary Clinton after her Benghazi interview. She said she had never interviewed anyone named Clinton--even George Clinton. FYI: I have interviewed George Clinton of Funkadelic fame.

++Maddow had superb questions but more importantly allowed Hillary Clinton to elaborate her thoughts. She raised questions about Bill Clinton's horrendous policies of three strikes your out,Don't Ask,Don't Tell and Doma. Hillary Clinton explained that Bill was trying to shield off these issues from more drastic propositions which were gaining strength at the time. Hillary's answer was completely plausible.

++Rachel raised the question about whether we will see the creepy Clinton people like Sid Blumenthal, Lanny Davis, and Mark Penn around in a Clinton administration. She didn't directly answer the question but asserted that she had new people and she would accept the old and the new. She said she was sensitive to how they excessively defended both her and her husband.

++She went the high road on the Benghazi hearing talking about how we need to know how to improve the security of our missions but admitted the new Benghazi committee falls short. She defended Libya and even still argues that Libya is trying to be more democratic and she would help. 

++Her answer on Syria raised the specter of federalization, which ironically is being proposed by Putin now and she supported a No Fly Zone in Syria, which some of the Republicans support. But she actually had real reasons about what such a proposal is meant to achieve.

++Hillary Clinton emphasized that she wanted to build on the progress achieved by Barack Obama and vigorously defended him even when Rachel said he was "naive" in  believing he could work with Republicans.

++She also said that we can't grow weary in struggling against the GOP's attempt to eliminate Social Security and Medicare or a woman's right to choose. She said that this year's election would be about basic freedoms, including the Right to Vote. She said she expected a vigorous debate because all Republicans are on the record on these issues.

++Hillary Clinton came off totally relaxed and not on guard, which is the major criticism of her personally. She handled the questions with ease and was throughly capable of answering them from a policy point of view.

++I thought Rachel Maddow did a superb job because we got a sense of Hillary Clinton and her concerns. If you didn't see it,please go to Rachel Maddow's website. It's worth a look.