Sen. Marco Rubio blasted Hillary Clinton’s record as secretary of state as a “disaster” Sunday, taking on the Democratic presidential front-runner on what is supposed to be one her strengths.
Speaking on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Rubio, said, “I believe a Clinton presidency would basically be another four years of Barack Obama. Up to this point I have not seen her distinguish herself on a single issue from what the president is doing now.
“We cannot ignore that she was secretary of state during the first four years of the Obama presidency and she has virtually no meaningful achievement to show for it.”
Rubio, who has revived his political career with a forceful focus on foreign policy, cited Clinton’s “reset” of policy toward Russia and her response to the fatal assault by terrorists on an American diplomatic compound in Libya, adding, “The Obama foreign policy during the Clinton years as secretary have been a disaster for America.”
Rubio’s comments, in a prerecorded interview, were aired shortly after a Hillary Clinton surrogate, Sen. Claire McCaskill, attacked him for “old style politics” in a flip-flop on immigration policy.
The attack suggests that the Clinton camp is taking Rubio’s foreign policy challenge, and his claim to represent a new generation, seriously and would prefer voters to pay attention to his stumbles on immigration, which were unpopular with the Republican base.
