The Washington Post's Karen Tumulty said Sunday it was "extraordinary" that Hillary Clinton was being forced to run biographical ads in August due to her lack of "tangible accomplishments."
Tumulty found it interesting that for Clinton to be such a prominent figure of the American psyche for so long that she feels the need to be reintroducing herself. Clinton wrote extensively about her mother in her first book Living History and the impact she made on Clintons life.
In an interview on MSNBC's Up, Tumulty didn't hold back in pointing out Clinton had "failed" on multiple fronts throughout her career and couldn't point to any specific successes during her tenures in the U.S. Senate or State Department.
"Hillary Clinton, assuming she gets the nomination as we do, is likely to be running against a governor or a senator or someone who can point to a lot of very tangible accomplishments in their career, and Hillary Clinton, from her time in the senate, there really were no landmark pieces of legislation with her name on them," she said.
"As secretary of state, she was largely involved in strengthening relationships with people around the world, but again, there will be not a singular accomplishment like, say, this Iranian arms deal was for John Kerry. When she tried to reform the health system, she failed. When she ran for president, she failed. So, again, the extraordinary part of it is that a woman who has been part of all our lives for this long still feels she has to introduce herself."