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Hillary Clinton's loyalty card buys her trouble everywhere (NZ Herald 11/20/09)
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This article comes from a New Zealand newspaper, but it could have been written by an American journalist.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/government/news/article.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10610416&ref=rss

In just over a year, Hillary Clinton has gone from sore loser in the presidential campaign to a trusted senior official in the Obama Administration who commands respect.

She carried on until the bitter end in the campaign, finally calling a halt to the "sisterhood of the travelling pantsuits" and urging her followers to support Barack Obama in August last year, only three months before the election.

Naturally when he offered her the position of Secretary of State, it raised questions about her loyalty. But in office she has been fiercely loyal to her new boss, who was derided by her husband during the campaign.

Sadly, it would seem that her loyalty has proved her undoing.

Why does she hold these town hall meetings from Santo Domingo to Moscow to Nairobi to Bangkok? She says that it's because no matter where you are, public opinion matters, even under a dictator.

"At every turn, I have listened and responded, but also stood up for what I think are our core values," she says.

Her abiding interest in women's and girls' rights shines through on her globe-trotting, as when she sat down with Pakistani women on her last visit. Since becoming Secretary of State, she has appointed the first ambassador at large for global women's issues.

On the broad foreign policy front her efforts have been unstinting. When Turkey and Armenia baulked at the last minute before a scheduled signing ceremony in Zurich to establish diplomatic relations, she turned round her motorcade and sat in a hotel parking lot from where she hit the phone to persuade recalcitrant officials from both sides to sign the deal.

But she came unstuck in the Middle East. And this is where the loyalty card comes in.

For whenever Obama frames American policy, the Secretary of State tends to go just that little bit further.

When he called for an Israeli settlement freeze, in a marked shift in policy from previous administrations, Clinton made it clear there should be no exceptions.

That angered the Israeli Government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

But she upset the Palestinians more by praising the "unprecedented" concessions by Israel and has been issuing clarifications ever since.

The knives are being sharpened in Washington as the commentators begin their foreign policy reviews at the end of a year capped by the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to a President who has yet to achieve anything.

Clinton has had to defend herself against accusations that her role in the Obama White House is diminished.

It is a far cry from the hopes inspired in the heady days of the inauguration last January. Yet questions about Clinton's presidential ambitions return periodically despite her denials.

They are certain to be revived when she is on the December cover of Vogue magazine - for the first time since 1998 when she was first lady.

Obama values her for her "smarts, discipline and steadfastness", qualities that kept her on the short list for Vice-President until the last minute, according to the President's former campaign manager David Plouffe.

The lady herself says that at 62, she has a "great job" which is 24/7 and is "looking forward to retirement at some point."

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She always has been loyal.  It got her in trouble when she stuck with Bill but she came throught.  She will come throught this too.  Everyone knows obama is the reason stuff got messed up in the middle east.  First Obama's policy was be hard nose where settlements came in so Hillary came out and sad look president wants no settlements no exceptions, then Bibi came to the white house and Obama waviered and bowed to Bibi.  Hillary then had to go to the middle east and try to get the two sides to talk to each other, so what she said was look they are make consessions as least come to the table to talk.  Of course that didn't work because  Abba had already done more than he could justify going along with UN and denouncing the Goldstein report on the crimes that Isreal committed.  Of course we all know Isreal lied cause hey they building settlements like crazy again.  Hillary was made to take one for the team, but people know what really happened.  President Obama set forths policy and Hillary has to carry it out and the president is so wishy washy it goes back and forth like a ping pong ball.

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I think we all expected Hillary to have to take some hits for Obama's mistakes. No doubt, she fully understood that this would be the case from the beginning. And, there's absolutely no doubt that she was prepared to handle the criticism she would take in executing Obama policy. When it's all said and done, and the bodies are counted, my money is on Hillary. She'll be able to get through the Obama wh years with her political reputation in tact.

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She has an amazing gift for staying focused on the good she wants to accomplish, and realizing the other stuff will fall by the wayside.

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She pulls her punches.....I give her an A, and Obama an F.

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Hillary's personality has never changed.  Hillary has always been loyal.  The nasty things that the press said about her was all lies.  I have had the honor of meeting this woman and she has a way of making you feel like you are the most important person in the room even if your only a woman from the hood. She's going to be President and the sisterhood of the traveling pantsuits are still alive.

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