This is the kind of reporting on Hillary's visit to Africa........what BS!
"Eleven days, seven countries of friendly, engaging, edifying talk but with no urgent American interest on the line. There were no nukes to stop, no peace deal to start, no young American women to free (Bill Clinton's shadow loomed large from the moment Mrs. Clinton's plane took off).
More than anything, the African safari she finished last week was about her and her emerging style as secretary of state. She stuffed heer days with what felt like a dozen events, a blur of high level meetings, roundtable discussion and TOWNTERVIEWS (more on that late). She seemed engaged throughout it all, scribbling in her notebooks like a dutiful student duriing meetings, keeping a straing, earnest face even when one Nigerian religious leader told her he was "constipated with ideas." "Condi would never do this, whispered on of Mrs. Clint's aides. Neither, probably would Colin Power, or Madeleine Albright or Henry Dissinger. Or just about any other secretary of state, a job that in the past seemed to go to people who didn't like to smile much.
But Mrs. Clinton is different. She's a RECOVERIGN POLITICAN, with FIRST LADY TENDENCIES.........
What the hell, she represents Obama's policy, not her policy. She's been living out a suitcase for months, and this is the kind of write up she gets. It's clear Gettleman's hating on Hillary.
-- Edited by Building 4112 on Sunday 16th of August 2009 03:12:38 PM
-- Edited by thebword on Sunday 16th of August 2009 05:27:40 PM
Wait what are they saying Condi and the other SOS wouldn't do?
They are referring to HRC working the lines at events. Meet and greet style the way politicians and politician's wives do all the time. Other SoS didn't have HRC's background on how to "work a room" and really listen to the regular non-political people around them.