Hearts of Hillary Clinton’s fangirls across America were broken and sore last week because of an election on the other side of the pond! The much ballyhooed (and nonexistent, if we are to depend on hard evidence) “crush” on David Miliband hit a major stumbling block. His Labour Party was defeated, and he was required to tender his resignation. The mournful sighs rippled across the amber waves of grain even as his replacement, one William Jefferson Hague, made hasty arrangements to hop the pond and meet with the dazzling (and I do mean dazzling, with all my heart) U.S. Secretary of State.
I have always maintained that it was David who was crushing on Hillary and not the other way round. In that lengthy White House YouTube (Happy Birthday, YouTube!) of President Obama at the UN Security Council Summit on Nuclear Nonproliferation from last September, it was David who got all squirmy when she arrived, and he could not take his eyes off her except when she glanced in his direction, while she was completely oblivious of him. But I digress.
This interesting article about the spoils of office in the U.K., specifically grand mansions known as “grace and favour residences” allotted to cabinet ministers, attributes a remark to our Hillary Clinton that not only made me LOL, but also seems to have put David in his place. I love her sense of humor.
Hillary Clinton correctly predicted Labour’s chances of winning the General Election back in January by making a dinner party joke at the expense of former Foreign Secretary David Miliband.
Mr Miliband boasted about his official country residence, inviting the U.S. Secretary of State to stay there.
Mrs Clinton replied: ‘That would be lovely, David, but you had better do it before May 6’
I shall leave it to readers to discuss amongst themselves the implications of the invitation itself. He wanted her to stay at his house? You can’t blame him! But her answer is a hoot!
Still4Hill 
Whichever one of them had the crush on the other, it was fun while it lasted. For us, I mean. 😉
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I think the new one came in crushing. Fun will ensue!
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That was cute. He was like a little puppy following her.
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I love you, jillforhill! Awwww! Puppy love! That’s cute!
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I’ll miss him. Madame Secretary may not have cared much for him (or his sleep-over offer) but I thought he was attractive. Foreign Policy just got a little harder to look at, at least for me.
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I think she likes him and worked well with him. She probably would again tomorrow. But that’s politics. As for his sleep-over idea, LOL! It is the first such “offer” I have seen in print. I am pretty sure he is not the only official with that idea. Qureshi of Pakistan probably also has a country house. He’s not hard to look at, and he seems to like looking at her.
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Allow me to clarify. I meant she doesn’t care for him in the way one does when they’re pondering accepting a sleep-over invitation. Maybe she just doesn’t like younger men?
Qureshi, as I mentioned in one of my posts, might resemble her husband after a few drinks. It’s the face shape and the nose. After a few martinis, a sleep-over might sound lovely.
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ROTFL!!! So all that flirting was a tease? Re: Qureshi, you are right about that. Remember Junod’s 1999 Esquire article described her type of guy: big, beefy. Yeah, he’s her type – the kind Junod said she “responds to.”
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I finally got curious about what Tom Junod looks like. http://www.esquire.com/features/contributors/tom-junod-1008
Not bad. Worlds better than that other commentator whose got a thing for her.
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Not bad at all!
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After his sexually-charged comments in both of he articles (far less in this newer one, but there are still a few) I expected a more Drew Carey-esque fellow for some reason. This guy was the one going on and on about her mouth and her eyes and her laugh. Wow!
Might he be her “type”?
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Maybe she “responded to” him. As you know, it doesn’t surprise me when someone goes on about her looks, since I see her as gorgeous.
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I’ve heard people go on about how pretty they think she is, but they’ve all been either women or gay men and the comments are more along the lines of “She looks great in that color,” or “That hairstyle really flatters her,” or the ever-popular “She looks good for her age.” Tom Junod, a rather attractive man by most standards, isn’t saying she looks good for her age. He’s saying she looks good. He’s not saying she’s attractive. He’s saying she is attractive in the most basic sense possible – he writes about a woman with whom a man (maybe even he himself) would want to go to bed. That is not the usual train of thought in any form of media regarding the Secretary of State and it hasn’t been for as long as she’s been on the national stage.
Let me give an example – that blue dress she’s worn a few times. (I have it as the last photo here – http://discourseincsharpminor.wordpress.com/2010/05/19/i-never-though-id-say-this-but-i-could-hug-bill-clinton/) Everyone has said how nice she looks in it, but a “Junodian”-style commentary would be more along the lines of how well it complimented the artfully-described body underneath it and what it might be like to try to get her out of it.
Many think of her as pretty. He thinks of her in bed with him. He may not be the only one, but he’s the only one to writes about it for the rest of us to read.
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And more power to him for that! In that picture, you can see how that gown might come off.
BTW – I love that gown, everything about it and especially how it fits her. I hope she is wearing it tonight, and wish Oscar would make a few variations – pastel chiffons (aqua and yellow would be nice – and even a pink) for the warmer weather. And she should have a red velvet version, also, for the cooler weather. They don’t have to be exactly the same, but fitted with ruching is very flattering on her.
I think she is gorgeous for any age. I’m glad Tom notices!
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I too think that dress does great things for her – much better that the “Queen Mum” gown she wore to the inaugural ball.
“In that picture, you can see how that gown might come off.” Really? All I see is her and Bill. 😉
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LOL! depending on how high she wears the shoulders and neckline, sometimes it looks like equipment can pop out.
That gary/pink inaugural thing? Yikes! Burn it! Please!
*Is a little worried about the MOTB dress – hope she lets Chelsea choose it.*
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You were referring to her neckline, not her squire. Ok. Anything more than a little bit of public hand-holding could land him in Administration Time-Out.
I hope her dress for the wedding isn’t a complete disaster. She’s never cared about fashion or looking good (otherwise why would she have worn that Queen Mum inaugural costume), but I hope she gets it right this time.
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The squire, in another St. Patty’s Day pic, had his eyes glued on the cleavage.
The MOTB dress – I worry about it.
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😯 I never saw that one.
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I never did find the picture of the misbehaving squire, but I found this one for you collection. He had a little accident this weekend and I’m sure she’s anxious to see for herself that he’s ok.
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I never did find the picture of the misbehaving squire, but I found this one for you collection. He had a little accident this weekend and I’m sure she’s anxious to see for herself that he’s ok.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/39082280@N00/2178733466/
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Awww – it looks like he’s singing and dancing with her, but I’m sure he’s just talking. Yes, I’m sure she’ll be happy to be home. She might be home by now – at least in DC. No NY until after tomorrow.
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I like the way their hands are holding the microphone. It’s just a sweet detail.
As far as singing goes, it’s in the Secretary’s best interest never ever to sing that close to a microphone.
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I can empathsize. I once had a really nice voice, and now it’s gone. But he sings to her. When they dropped the ball in Times Square on New Year’s last year, he grabbed her and danced her around and sang to her. It was so cute!
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He was actually in DC today at the White House meeting with the US World Cup team this morning. Maybe he was able to make time for her too.
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Just guessing, but that was probably no accident given President Lee’s hearty welcome.
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Hearty? More like amorous.
I have a hard time envisioning Bill Clinton as the jealous type. For me, it’s a lot easier to picture him laughing as he watched the awkward results of her trying to keep the South Korean President’s hands in acceptable territory and stay professional while he tried to embrace her Hollywood-style and teasing her about it.
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Yes, I can imagine the “teasing” she got from him when he finally had her at home. I’m glad he was in DC when she got back.
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“Teasing”? Them? She should’ve gotten her rest. She looked so tired at the Brookings Institute the next morning – like she hadn’t slept at all. She was in great spirits though. Maybe she doesn’t mind the missing sleep.
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Well, if he was in DC she probably didn’t get much sleep. It was a long week.
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Ok, after today I think he may need some affection.
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Yeah! He has probably airlifted her to Chappaqua by now. They both need a little off time. Propping up Obama is a HUGE job!
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It seems like they’ll never get away from this type of stuff. Bill Clinton under scrutiny, calls for an independent council, sounds like the nineties all over again… oh, except for all the wars we’re involved in, and I’m not in elementary school.
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I don’t think this goes anywhere, but take two/ day two – it makes Obama look worse than it makes Bill look.
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I don’t think it’s really got any life in it either, but it has to be uncomfortable for both of them. Luckily, they have a few days together. I hope they come up with some sort of activity to keep their minds off it. It wouldn’t surprise me if they went to the Memorial Day parade.
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I think it’s a dead story. Sestak says her cut him off at the first sentence. Nothing happened. There WAS no offer.
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Even so, I’m sure there will be people trying to pry into their lives again. They try so hard to keep their “alone time” low-key and now it will be that much harder, at least for this weekend.
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They’ve kept it pretty secret thus far – but I haven’t been on Twitter to see any “Clinton spottings.” Guessing: They’re all hugged up. Maybe they even watched this!
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Well, David Miliband himself did say that she knew how to tease.
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I had forgotten about that. Yes, he did. Go Smart Power!
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“Awww – it looks like he’s singing and dancing with her, but I’m sure he’s just talking.”
This is a true serenade.
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What an adorable picture!
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