Two current magazine issues feature articles/images of our girl. In case you were not aware, you might want to pick up the April issue of More Magazine for the picture spread on the photogenic HRC. Elle Magazine also has a feature article about her. Here is the online version, but I know I will be buying my keepsake copy off the rack.
At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton’s Career
Secretary of State Clinton has won over her harshest critics and become so popular that some Democrats are envisioning a future in which she replaces Joe Biden as vice president on the 2012 ticket and then—dare they imagine it—takes the top job in 2016.
By Rachael Combe | April 05, 2012
I am late for a black-tie dinner, running down Manhattan’s West Side Highway in a cocktail dress and bare feet, evening sandals clutched in one hand, a recorder and notebook in the other. In a covered garage at Chelsea Piers, I catch up to my mark—a string of town cars, SUVs, and police cars, lights blazing—just as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton steps onto the red carpet.
Her entourage files into a curtained-off room to the side of the banquet hall, and her security detail waves me in behind them—I’ve been following her for a few weeks now, from Washington, DC, to Europe and now New York City. I’m frantically scanning the group for the State Department press aide, my eyes still adjusting to the darkened antechamber, when I practically walk into Secretary Clinton. She looks at me; I look at her. Her eyes are disarmingly blue; my face is red. Her gaze travels down to the stilettos in my hand, then to my bare feet. I follow suit, as if I’m in one of those dreams where you find yourself in high school French, taking a test you didn’t study for, and you suddenly realize that you forgot to put on clothes.
Wow, love the photo!
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It’s a keeper. So is she. I am still having a hard time imagining the gov’t. without her anywhere in it.
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i know exactly how you feel!
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She should send that photographer a bunch of roses. These photos are outstanding. This one rivals the one on the cover of her book – one of the best photos ever taken of her.
MamaDiscourse – “No wonder Bill’s happy she’s coming home!”
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i love your mother!
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btw, the story in elle is good, too.
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That is a striking picture! She just seems to get more and more beautiful and graceful as time passes.
I had a chance to read both articles online and they are great. I will be buying the hard copies though to add to my Hillary collection.
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Great pic, she’s one beautiful woman. I can’t wait to buy both magazines. Thanks for the heads up, Still.
I read the Elle article and it’s quite good.
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GORGEOUS photo!!!
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[…] Comments « Hillary in the Glossies […]
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Is it that she’s too pretty to be president? Seriously. I wonder. I have all along.
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“Is it that she’s too pretty to be president?” … … … … That’s the question with every woman who has ever run, isn’t it? I mean Shirley Chisolm made Barack Obama as possible as Hillary, yet I’ve never heard him mention her. Interesting, isn’t it?
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If you knew Shirley you would know she was everybody’s 5th grade teacher. It never mattered how she looked. She took on the whole Congress like they were a 5th grade class. They cowered. I voted for her in a primary. She rocked!
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I didn’t get your point when I first read this. Hmmmmmm… interesting point. Now I don’t remember. Did he ever mention Jesse Jackson?
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I miss Barbara Jordan. She’s the closest I’ll probably ever get to the likes of Shirley. There’s a phrase we say for the dead in Judaism. It’s a blessing, like rest in peace. I guess I’ll just use the English since I can’t figure out how to transliterate the Hebrew. But, I digress… I would love to see the Congress bow to *any* competent female. If only they’d listen to Lisa Murkowski. But they’re m.e.n. Maybe I should write to her that she ought to run!
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Hehe. I just wrote to Senator Murkowski encouraging her, minus future Blunt amendment votes, to talk with other Republican, liberal, dare I say pro-choice, women and discuss reclaiming their presidential ticket. Albeit at this point it would have to be ’16, but still…. It will beat the craziness taking place now. I told her I’m a Democrat, but that I’d have to get to know her better, and other women in her party. “Hello, anybody out there?!” Seriously.
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I think Rachel Combe, the author of the article should have left out Rebecca Traister’s quote. It didn’t do anything for the tone of the article which was otherwise consistently positive. Obama didn’t give her the SoS opportunity willingly — he was forced to. If it was left up to him, he would have liked everybody to forget what a force of presidential candidate she was in primary 2008. We all remember how they had to steal it away from her to give it to him. Rebecca Traister painting it as something Obama did that Bill Clinton failed to do is rewriting history. Don’t let them do that.
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If Obama hadn’t found some place in the Cabinet for her, she’d be challenging him for the nomination right now. It was an obvious political calculation. It was a CYA move.
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Which is the argument her supporters were putting out there when he offered her the post. That it would effectively neutralize her.
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i, for one, am glad she took the job. it hasn’t neutralized her at all, as far as being able make a difference around the world. and she obviously loves it.
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I trusted her judgment then just as I trust it now. I wouldn’t have voted for her if I didn’t trust her judgment. She did the right thing and has been the beat SOS I have ever seen.
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Agreed, I don’t think she would have taken the job if she didn’t think she could bring something to it.
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Politically. All of her political experience and strategy know how has still been on display and in use, just not in US politics potentially undercutting him. She’s proven to be quite effective. No wonder her favorables are high.
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I agree. It should have been left out. But, then, they rewrote the primary and the nomination. It should have gone down to a fair floor vote, not that mockery we all saw.
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It’s a rich article. Dense with insights about her. For me, this little passage speaks volumes about her, her work ethic, and her respect for others and their points of view. Bear in mind, these are two past presidential candidates and one past vice presidential candidate. I voted for all three.
Essentially, this nugget responds to my recurrent observation that no past candidate has effected the cohesion among supporters that she has. This is why, four years later, we remain at her side. None of us stuck that way with those other three guys, one of whom is likely to replace her at DOS. Can you imagine? THIS is why she is the best. She is the cream of the crop of my generation and I could not be prouder of her.
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Still4hill, I think I like your interpretation better than the one in the article for that particular passage and the preceding context. In the article it sounded more like how traditional she was and how she strokes the men’s ego by paying them attention and this passage was used to illustrate that boys will be boys but the girls have to work harder.
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We do, and she does, and I do believe that this is the essence of her. She listens – she addresses what she hears with action. We knew this when she was in the Senate – before that, really. We knew it in 2007 and 2008, and we have seen her do that as SOS. It is, I think, the glue that keeps us stuck to her and her to us. She is an element of cohesion among people the likes of which I have never seen before in my life.
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When I read that segment, I thought it would speak to you.
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You know me pretty well.
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OK – I just bought the April ELLE and I do not see that article anywhere in it! 😦
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not in it ? no!!!!
I want a print version too 😦
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I wonder if it’s for the May issue.
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It is the May issue with Rhianna on the cover.
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Thank you! 🙂
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😀
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