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Posted in Foreign Policy, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State, Secretary of State Travel, state department, U.S. Department of State | Tagged Alain Juppe, Foreign Policy, Guido Westerwelle, Hillary Clinton, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Nicholas Sarkozy, Secretary of State, Sergei Lavrov, State Department, Takeaki Matsumoto, U.S. Department of State, William Hague | 45 Comments

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1. on March 14, 2011 at 9:40 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

   Looks like Sarkozy was her date today.

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   • on March 14, 2011 at 9:44 pm | Reply still4hill

     She has a way of making important men feel even more important.

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     • on March 14, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       And “charms by being charmed.”

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       • on March 15, 2011 at 6:53 pm | Reply still4hill

         Ah, yes!

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2. on March 14, 2011 at 10:31 pm | Reply Jessica

   i find it amusing that they’re the same height….with her in heels, but, Bill still towers over her when she’s in heels.

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3. on March 14, 2011 at 11:02 pm | Reply Bea

   That pic at the airport where she’s shaking hands with a female member of the Air Force is driving the people at The Huff into a tizzy. Some thinks that she should have put on makeup while others think that she looks hot. LOL!!!

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   • on March 14, 2011 at 11:16 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     So let me get this straight. They want her to wear makeup to get on an overnight flight during which she would most likely try to get some sleep and then would have to fix said makeup before she got off the plane or risk looking like a hungover panda. Do they realize this is the über-practical, no fuss Hillary Clinton they’re talking about? Has this woman ever been known as a fashion icon?

     I don’t think she looks hot, but I doubt she’s damaged international relations by arriving in France without makeup.

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     • on March 15, 2011 at 12:55 am | Reply Bea

       Go to The Huff and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Some of the men think that she looks hot because they think that she looks like she just got out of bed (read had sex). Others think that she looks better without make-up. It’s the women who mainly comment that she should have fixed her hair and put on make-up.

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       • on March 15, 2011 at 1:03 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

         So, after all these years, people think Hillary is, in fact,not a block of ice. It’s about time. Did they speculate about who she’d have been in bed with? Have they accepted that it would most likely be her husband or would that be too much to ask?

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         • on March 15, 2011 at 1:16 am | Reply Jessica

           a lot of them have said “is Bill in Paris” or, “was she rolling around with Bill” but many others are saying that its no wonder he strayed if she wakes up like this every morning. These people are idiots. she looks amazing with no makeup!

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           • on March 15, 2011 at 1:50 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

             I think she looks disheveled and tired but happy… relaxed… satisfied… “rested” – take your pick. Who among us looks like they just stepped out of a fashion magazine without makeup on. Even models don’t look like models without a little cosmetic help.

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             • on March 15, 2011 at 3:20 am | Reply littleisis

               She looks better than I do without make up, and I look good all. the. time. 😀 People are just haters. And also jealous.

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           • on March 15, 2011 at 1:17 pm | Reply Bea

             The Huff is full of haters. Most of them (like DailyKos and DU too) supported Obama in the primaries.

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4. on March 15, 2011 at 12:24 am | Reply jess

   As usual, too gorgeous. And i love the first pic of her without makeup. man oh man. 😛

   And the pics of her and Sarkozy are adorable. :O. They really do enjoy each other, he loves her. : )

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5. on March 15, 2011 at 2:35 am | Reply villager

   She looks just beautiful. I love her re-connecting with Pres. Sarkozy – reminding each other of her ‘lost’ shoe.

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6. on March 15, 2011 at 4:08 pm | Reply Flash Games

   Thank you..really informative!!

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7. on March 15, 2011 at 4:56 pm | Reply votermom

   What great photos.
   But WHY is she not our president?!!!!

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   • on March 15, 2011 at 6:55 pm | Reply still4hill

     Hmmmmm…. tht’s a long, complex story….

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   • on March 15, 2011 at 7:43 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     Because she lost the primary almost three years ago and chose not to mount a write-in campaign or run as a third party candidate to see if she could win that way. I personally don’t know if she could’ve done it, but it would’ve been interesting. There would’ve been a lot for democrats to think about.

     As it is, she bowed out of politics gracefully and there’s an element of class to that.

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     • on March 15, 2011 at 7:54 pm | Reply still4hill

       Nomination does not occur because of “winning” or “losing” the primary. Nomination occurs on the convention floor, usually after several ballots. The roll call vote on the convention floor was not a real roll call vote, and months prior the RBC gave Hillary votes away to Obama. She had the higher popular vote. She is not POTUS because the Democratic Party leadership disenfranchised the party members – yours truly among them. My vote was for Hillary was given unceremoniously to Obama.

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       • on March 15, 2011 at 8:19 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

         Yes, delegates can do what they want in spite of the popular vote (not cool) and in ’08 some states’ delegates did not vote with their citizens, but she didn’t challenge any part of it. If she had, let’s say launched a write-in campaign as Lisa Murkowski did in Alaska, that would’ve been fascinating. She would’ve had to get into the whole “new media” and it would’ve added a new facet to her political image. We also probably would never have heard of Sarah Palin.

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         • on March 15, 2011 at 8:27 pm | Reply still4hill

           I’ll get the delegates to reply. No they may not vote as they wish on the first ballot. I know many of the 300. That is not what they are bound to do. They are bound to represent the people who sent them.

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         • on March 15, 2011 at 10:07 pm | Reply Jen the Michigander

           A protest followed by a write-in campaign may have satisfied some of Hillary’s angry supporters at the time, but it wouldn’t have served her well in the long run. The media was 100 percent for Obama, with the exception of Fox News and some right-wing talk show hosts and they were hardly going to give Hillary a fair chance to state her case. The Republicans rolled over and played dead; they didn’t even try to win that election. Say what you will about Palin (and I’ve said a few things about her myself), but she was really the ONLY Republican who played to win that year.

           For Hillary to launch a national write-in campaign, she would have needed more time, more money, more troops on the ground, and at least one major TV network on her side. I just don’t see how she could have made it happen. Lisa Murkowski only had to campaign in one state, her own. And frankly, I’m surprised she pulled it off. I just don’t think the same could ever happen with a presidential race.

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           • on March 15, 2011 at 10:56 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

             She might not have won a write-in campaign, but it would’ve pointed out a lot of things. It may have done the party some good. As to the media, I don’t want them campaigning for anyone. I don’t want my evening news to turn into a nightly campaign stop in my living room. If I care about a candidate that much I’ll go to a rally. All the news corporations need to tell me who said what and what’s going on outside the US. Candidates should not have their own channels. I guess I’m just naive.

             I wasn’t surprised by Murkowski’s win. She was well known and reasonably well-liked. Joe Miller had also said some rather foolish things in the run up to the election. I was glad to see her win.

             You’re right about Palin. She was the only republican who brought her A game to the ’08 presidential race.

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         • on March 15, 2011 at 11:10 pm | Reply still4hill

           A write-in campaign is beside the point. She would never have done that. I had no desire to see her do anything like that. She ran an open honest campaign and deserved an honest, open, transparent roll call vote on the convention floor according to the rules. Not arm-twisting in hotel rooms at 7 o’clock in the morning and a ridiculous 2nd ballot on the floor that the DNC allowed everyone to think was a first ballot. It was filthy. Hillary deserved better. The 300 signatories deserved better. I deserved to see the vote I cast, in the primary I helped pay for along with all my fellow taxpayers, counted on the convention floor.

           The rules were broken. Who cares about a write-in campaign. Start with an honest nomination. Why should she have mounted a write-in campaign? She won the popular vote and it could have and should have been given the chance to go either way at the convention.

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           • on March 16, 2011 at 1:00 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

             I wish blog posts could be deleted.

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     • on March 15, 2011 at 10:19 pm | Reply Julia Hughes Jones

       I have been out of pocket lately but saw this comment and had to reply…The major reason Hillary is not in the White House is because of the persistent, nagging, and presently unacknowledged belief from ancient history that we women are too emotional and irrational to handle leadership duties. Now who can tell me that is what is wrong with Hillary Rodham Clinton? No one can because it is not true and even those who WISH it to be true know better. If Jack Holland happened to be still alive he would ditto this message and write it in a more eloquent way…

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     • on March 15, 2011 at 10:34 pm | Reply still4hill

       My problem is more with the idea that she “lost the primary.” She got the highest popular vote ever and was 14 committed delegate votes below Obama. (Bear in mind the RBC GAVE him 4 of her delegates.) Committed delegates MUST VOTE FOR THE CANDIDATE THEY WERE SENT TO REPRESENT on the first ballot. That is what “committed” means.

       I have seen in my life not just the second closer, but sometimes the third and fourth in the primaries all in nomination for a roll call vote. After the first ballot, the teams of the candidates can then go speak with delegations and try to sway committed delegates to other candidates. Sometimes it takes as many as six ballots.

       The primaries do not decide and she did not lose or concede. She suspended and never de-suspended, for that matter. Her name should have been in serious nomination and the roll call vote should have been transparent and public. It was not. If some of my delegate friends come here that is what they will say.

       Candidates are NEVER on the convention floor. They stay in a nearby hotel room and watch on TV. HRC was forced to do what she did. It was the ugliest political act I have ever seen from the Democratic Party, and it happened because the leadership decided that it knew better than the base.

       A true roll call vote might have given her the nomination – the votes were very close. The roll call was bogus and a fiasco.

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   • on March 15, 2011 at 11:44 pm | Reply Bea

     Why?

     Because as William Safire once put it, “we are a nation of nitwits”.

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     • on March 16, 2011 at 12:01 am | Reply still4hill

       In a nutshell!

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8. on March 15, 2011 at 11:05 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

   And people ask why she’s done with politics?

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   • on March 15, 2011 at 11:11 pm | Reply still4hill

     She never said she was done. She has said that as SOS she is “out of politics.” Never count a Clinton out.

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     • on March 15, 2011 at 11:18 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       She was talking about “beaches and speeches” in Harper’s Bazaar, but you’re right about that family being comeback prone. So, if I’m wrong, what should she be called? Bill’s the Comeback Kid, so who is she? The Comeback Queen? The Comeback Cupcake? I suppose if she did make the kind of comeback many here hope she does she’d already have a title. 🙂

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       • on March 15, 2011 at 11:35 pm | Reply still4hill

         Well Obama is POTUS, and he gets to go t the beach (she hardly ever gets that chance) and he makes speeches. I don’t think that comment excludes the White House. The Comeback Cupcake? LOL. I am seeing the look on Mark Penn’s face at that one. She is well beyond his reach now, and the icing is very pretty.

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         • on March 15, 2011 at 11:45 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

           Going by the reaction to her windblown departure photo on HuffPo last night many people agree about her looking good.

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     • on March 16, 2011 at 4:29 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

       Looks like the cupcake is not planning a comeback. 😦
       http://www.businessinsider.com/hillary-clinton-announces-her-departure-2011-3
       Her interview with Wolf Blitzer will air at 5pm et.

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       • on March 16, 2011 at 7:17 pm | Reply still4hill

         Managed to get home to see it. Will post it when it’s available later.

         As for no comeback? You have got to learn to listen using your Clinton-code decoder ears. He asked her a question about the future and she answered in the present. The Clintons speak code. None of those NOs were definite at all.

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         • on March 16, 2011 at 10:05 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

           News on the other coded Clinton. His Foundation is moving to lower Manhattan.

           http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/17/nyregion/17bill-clinton.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimes&seid=auto

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           • on March 16, 2011 at 10:22 pm | Reply still4hill

             Hmmm… uptown when Chels was at Columbia, downtown while she’s at NYU? I think she does a lot of work for him. Might just be easier for her. Or could be other reasons. As long as he stays in NYC, I am a happy camper.

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             • on March 16, 2011 at 10:27 pm | Reply discourseincsharpminor

               All the better to babysit for you, my dear. 😀

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               • on March 16, 2011 at 10:38 pm | Reply still4hill

                 Haha! Baby’s crying ? Where’s Hillary? Take her to Hillary! I dunno!

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9. on March 15, 2011 at 11:55 pm | Reply Mark Murphy

   I think it’s amazing, would they be asking these questions of a man?We are suck a sexist country. Who cares if she had make-up on, she was there to work(and she works hard? and she has traveled many, many hours.over and over and over again.She is a work horse and she is like the enegizer bunny, she has to be she is doing the work of the secretary of state and the president.

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   • on March 16, 2011 at 12:09 am | Reply discourseincsharpminor

     You know what, I would have something to say if a man was representing me and looked a mess and wasn’t dressing and grooming himself for the job. Yeah, I’d have a lot to say. If someone, male or female is representing me – my town, my state, or my country, I want them to look the part. Not every complaint about someone’s looks is bogus.

     That said I didn’t have a problem with the Secretary. Who dresses up for a flight?

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10. on March 15, 2011 at 11:57 pm | Reply Mark Murphy

    I think she looks good either way, but the important thing is,She is doing a good job and she has the brains and stamina to get the job done.

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