Clinton making amends with Obama after critique

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CNBC's John Harwood reports Hillary Clinton is putting distance between her and President Obama.</span></div> </div> </div> <div class="yui3-videoplayer-startscreen-ybang"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="yui3-videoplayer-startscreen-button" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-position: 50% 50%, 50% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: 59px 50px; border-bottom-left-radius: 7px; border-bottom-right-radius: 7px; border-top-left-radius: 7px; border-top-right-radius: 7px; height: 45px; left: 50%; margin-left: -32px; margin-top: -22px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 50%; width: 65px;"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="body yom-art-content clearfix" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Article" style="margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px 10px; zoom: 1;"> <div class="yom-ad yom-ad-LREC" id="yom-ad-LREC" style="border: none; clear: both; float: right; height: 250px; margin: 0px 0px 1.1em 10px; max-height: 250px; text-align: center; visibility: inherit; width: 300px;"> <div class="darla" id="sb_rel_yom-ad-LREC-iframe" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); display: inline-block; height: 250px; position: relative; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 9;"> <iframe allowtransparency="true" async="" frameborder="no" hidefocus="true" id="yom-ad-LREC-iframe" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://l.yimg.com/rq/darla/2-8-1/html/r-sf.html" style="display: block; height: 250px; left: 0px; margin: 0px auto; max-height: none; max-width: none; min-height: 0px; position: absolute; text-align: left; top: 0px; visibility: inherit; width: 300px; z-index: 10;" tabindex="-1"></iframe></div> </div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">After distancing herself from some of President Barack Obama's foreign policy, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton called her ex-boss Tuesday to try to smooth things over and planned on "hugging it out" in person at an upcoming get-together.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clinton spokesman Nick Merrill said Clinton told Obama by phone that nothing she said in a magazine interview was an attempt to attack him or his leadership. The call came on the eve of a party on Martha's Vineyard that Clinton and Obama planned to attend.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clinton's assessments of Obama's foreign policy to The Atlantic came at a sensitive time for both her and Obama. She is preparing for a possible second try for the presidency and he is grappling with how far to involve the United States in explosive disputes in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, Iraq and elsewhere.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clinton, who carried out Obama's diplomacy in his first term, described a different approach she would take in places like Syria and the Mideast. And she rebuked Obama's cautious approach to global crises.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Great nations need organizing principles, and 'don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle," she said in a weekend magazine interview, referring to a version of the phrase Obama and his advisers have used privately to describe his approach to foreign policy.</span></div> <div class="body-related" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 7.5px; margin-left: 7.5px; position: relative;"> <a class="body-related-link body-related-image go-to-slideshow-lightbox rapid-noclick-resp landscape onesize get-lbdata-from-dom" data-pos="1" data-rapid_p="7" data-uuid="b6e7f03a-82ee-3559-a085-044295164c8f" data-ylk="t1:a3;t2:ct-mod;t3:embd;sec:ct-mod;slk:expand;elm:img;elmt:ct;itc:1;g:46cc0086-6df1-3b9f-a3da-837d78e5f362;aid:b6e7f03a-82ee-3559-a085-044295164c8f;ct:4;cpos:1;" href="http://news.yahoo.com/lightbox/file-july-29-2014-file-photo-shows-former-photo-210018417.html" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto; max-width: 300px; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" title="FILE - This July 29, 2014, file photo shows former&nbsp;&hellip;"><div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <span class="icon-slideshow icon-white-slideshow-xsmall" style="background-image: url(data:image/svg+xml; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; background-size: cover; border-bottom-left-radius: 4px; border-bottom-right-radius: 4px; border-top-left-radius: 4px; border-top-right-radius: 4px; bottom: 5px; cursor: pointer; height: 23px; left: 5px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; text-indent: 0px; width: 32px; z-index: 1;"></span><img alt="FILE - This July 29, 2014, file photo shows former&nbsp;&hellip;" class="body-related-thumb inview" data-src-2x="" height="231" src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/KOrxuL_rUrFyKqAzfWM3MA--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTIzMTtxPTc1O3c9MzAw/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/9955b8576b68851f5c0f6a7067005a50.jpg" style="-webkit-transform: translateZ(0px); -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; display: block; opacity: 1 !important; transition: opacity 0.3333s ease 0ms; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible !important;" width="300" /><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br /></span></div> <div class="img-wrap" style="position: relative;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Cliton</span></div> </a></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Merrill said Clinton continued to share Obama's "deep commitment to smart and principled foreign policy," has touted his achievements and was honored to be part of his team, despite some differences.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Some are now choosing to hype those differences but they do not eclipse their broad agreement on most issues," Merrill said in a written statement. "Like any two friends who have to deal with the public eye, she looks forward to hugging it out when they see each other tomorrow night."</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Clinton and Obama were planning to attend a party Wednesday night on Martha's Vineyard for Ann Jordan, wife of Democratic adviser Vernon Jordan. Clinton is on the Massachusetts island for a memoir-signing session at a bookstore, while Obama is in the midst of a two-week vacation.</span></div> <div style="margin-bottom: 1.1em;"> <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The White House initially said Obama didn't plan to see Clinton while she was on the island. But after the interview was published, the White House said Obama decided to go to the party.</span></div> <div> <br /></div> </div> </div>

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