Yeah Tavis said it wasn't her fault  about the press pool the networks choose who they want to send in as reporters.



Sanders wrote:

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Thank you so much. It is a pleasure to read this.
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Issue Date: January 24, 2010

The Hillary Clinton I saw

Our contributing editor shares personal impressions of the woman behind the public figure, gathered while creating his latest PBS documentary.

By Tavis Smiley

Given Fox News' treatment of the Clintons, I was stunned to see her TV channel choice.

For a few days in early December, I shadowed Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for a documentary called "Tavis Smiley Reports: One on One With Hillary Clinton," which will air on PBS Wednesday at 8 p.m. ET. The show looks at Clinton's first year as the United States' No. 1 diplomat and what's ahead for 2010. Five things struck me as I spent time with her:

Her job is even harder than I thought. I've interviewed five secretaries of state: Lawrence Eagleburger, Warren Christopher, Madeleine Albright, Gen. Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice, all of whom have tried to convey to me the sheer intensity inherent in this position.

It wasn't until I had the opportunity to spend some time with Clinton, however, that I came to better understand the long days and late nights, endless travel, contentious congressional hearings, international arm-twisting and domestic wrangling that come with the job. This kind of public service is unduly taxing, especially given that diplomacy is a game of inches and not yards, where there are rarely clear-cut wins or losses. It makes me wonder why Hillary Rodham Clinton, at age 62, and with a legacy that is already locked and loaded, would even want to be the U.S. secretary of state.

Little big things matter. In December, just days after President Barack Obama delivered his major address concerning Afghanistan, Clinton was on Capitol Hill to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Preparing to be bombarded by the committee, Clinton saw Bertie Bowman, hearing coordinator for the Foreign Relations Committee. Amid the commotion, Clinton remembered that Bowman's wife had recently died, and without hesitation, she approached him and gently asked how he was holding up. Bowman said that he had received her written condolences, as well as a note from her husband. She told Bowman she also would have expressions of sympathy sent from the president and vice president. Never mind the political grilling Clinton was about to face -- she remembered Bertie Bowman and his grieving heart.

Fox News ... say, what? As we waited to board Clinton's plane to NATO headquarters in Brussels, I saw that the TV in the media holding area at Andrews Air Force Base was tuned to the Fox News Channel. Given the rancor between the Obama administration and Fox News, to say nothing of Fox News' treatment of the Clintons when they were in the White House, I was doubly stunned to find that the TVs on Clinton's plane also were tuned to Fox News. Talk about things that make you go hmm ...

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As to Tavis Smiley being the only black person in the Press pool on the flight, that is not her doing. Hillary's own direct reports have many people of many ethnic origins, black, brown, pink and all.   I am sure she notices EVERYTHING but she knows what is and is not her role. I hope the Press pool stops criticizing her for what lands in her plane without her orchestration.

I am not in the least surprised that she tunes into FOX News regularly!  LOL  President Obama's dislike of Fox News is not a foreign policy position/stand by Pres.Obama; in all other places, she is her own person and does her own thing as a citizen.

Well, Tavis Smiley, don't wonder why she would want to do the SOS job - she is the most conscientous public servant that has ever come along.  She has dedicated herself to public service, and it did not surprise me ONE BIT when she accepted the job - not in the least.  She was never daunted by hard jobs.. that would never deter her from accepting it. It is the quality of public service and the hour of need that moves her.

All in all a great article by Tavis Smiley. Thanks.


-- Edited by Sanders on Friday 22nd of January 2010 10:49:49 AM

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rachel wrote:

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Amen  to that

I get sick of the she will vote for me I am black the card is played all too often


Hillarysmygirl16 wrote:

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Travis Smiley started out as an Obot he was one of the first to endorse Obama but when Obama failed to show up for the state of black america confrence and Hillary did.  He refused to back Obama He said that No White Democrat would dare to skip this confrence and yet Obama did just that.  I admire Smiley for doing just that.  Its time Black America stops forgiving our black politicians for ignoring our problems.  We would never allow a white candidate to do that.  Its time we make our black candidates do the same thing.

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I just want the candidates who get 95% of African American votes to pay attention to what we need and want.  Its time that Obama earn our vote the ceiling has been broken.  Now its time for him to step up but he won't.  He is the President to all Americans including African Americans.