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TOPIC: Hillary Clinton Does 185,731 Miles and Asks If I was a Party-Crasher. . .(Washington Note 12/08/09)

Jen the Michigander

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Hillary Clinton Does 185,731 Miles and Asks If I was a Party-Crasher. . .(Washington Note 12/08/09)	Permalink

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/12/hillary_clinton_16/ Hillary Clinton would have probably flown more miles this year had she not badly injured her wrist in a nasty State Department parking lot fall, but she still logged a very impressive 185,731 in flight miles so far this year. Andrea Mitchell, master of ceremonies at the US Global Leadership Coalition 2009 Tribute Dinner and senior diplomatic correspondent for NBC News, told me that she called State and got the very latest numbers as Secretary Clinton was just back from Brussels. Boeing Corporate President James Bell said, "and thanks for flying all those miles on Boeing." Hillary Clinton was last night the most compelling and comfortably confident I have seen her since taking on the responsibility of serving as Barack Obama's Secretary of State. When I was standing in a threesome with Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees, and Migration Eric Schwartz and the USGLC's John Glenn at the very end of a long line waiting to get through security into the thousand person dinner at DC's Grand Hyatt, I saw Hillary Clinton and her entourage pass us by. She caught my eye and I said, "Any chance you can help us out??" Hillary's reply: "Oh, are you guys trying to crash the party and cause some trouble?" But beyond this bureaucratic hiccup, Hillary Clinton's focus in her speech on women, girls' education, health, development, poverty, water, and the like - her mention of a "Global Partnership Initiative" in which the Department of State and US AID had partnered with General Mills and African farmers in 15 Sub-Saharan nations to provide healthy and fortified foods; her salute to the Millennium Development Goals and the development work of the Millennium Challenge Corporation; her passion about global justice, international law, and human rights were all on display last night. Clinton said that her Department of State would re-establish and re-brand USAID as the "premier development agency in the world." Hillary Clinton also revealed strategic alliances with Google's Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of the New America Foundation, who recently committed to digitize all of the Iraqi National Museum archives and artworks as well as to launch an Iraq Government YouTube Channel to promote transparency in government. Clinton bundled all of this into what she termed "21st Century Statecraft". She noted that even at the height of the Cold War with many nuclear warheads pointed at each other, the Soviets and Americans had never stopped talking (she might consider then a shift in US-Cuba interactions?). Bottom line last night was that Clinton was on top of this portfolio. Global justice, climate change, development, human rights, women's rights - all of this is her thing. __________________ Nobody puts THIS baby in the corner!

Alex

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That's why she's our girl Hill!! Thanks, Jen - great post! __________________ Barack/Barry: If you're NOT LEGIT, then you MUST QUIT!!

Hillarysmygirl16

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Date: Dec 12, 2009

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Hillary to Andera "You cannot come to the Party." LOL __________________

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