As you know from the prior post, Secretary Clinton met today with Haitian President-Elect Michel Martelly. She even spoke a little Haitian Creole! Later, she participated in “Conversations of Diplomacy” with Henry Kissinger and moderated by Charlie Rose.
At the time the State Department released the information about the Charlie Rose event, it was not exactly clear that this event would air.
A similar event with HRC and Kissinger did not, but this one will on PBS tonight! So check your local listings!
FOR THOSE WHO MISSED CHARLIE ROSE LAST NIGHT, HERE IS THE LINK TO THE VIDEO.
Love the slideshow.
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I have to apologize. When I first posted this I forgot to put the slideshow in! (It’s been a long day.)
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I think she likes President-Elect Martelly. They seem to get along and you must have loved her speaking Haitian Creole.
Since I’m thinking in French now, this picture made me think of a phrase. Mon Oeil! You can use your imagination as far as who she would be saying that to.
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She brought me right “home” with that “tet kalé” remark.
Hahaha!!! We say that in English, too! My eye! (My mother used to say that.)
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😀 That’s why she’s your girl!
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Among many, many reasons! 😀
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I know.
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🙂
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Hand’s off Charlie!
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Japanese Prime Minister Kan couldn’t let go either.
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She looks very fetching in that shot. Had an effect.
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Yes, it looks like it did.
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😀 Smart Power!
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“Smart Power” beta testing in progress in the late 70’s.
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D’aaawwwww!!!!! (I am watching her with Kissinger right now. This is going to be a Hillareality TV series! She will sit down with the other former SOSes. YAY!!!!!)
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I can’t wait for the Albright interview. I love Secretary Albright. She’s a large part of why I enjoy foreign policy so much.
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Awwww…. I love that pic. I love Hillareality TV!
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Also, her “Smart Power” test looks like it went well. He looks like he’s hooked.
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When she puts that to work, very few have resistance (Avigdor Leiberman – but she might not have used it on him because … as she said about pat-downs … who WOULD?).
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VERY few indeed. Foreign Minister Westerwelle comes to mind. 😉
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He succumbs… to the extent he can. Better than Leiberman!
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I don’t know what it is about her that draws them in. That’s not exactly what I envision when I think of a siren (and don’t even get me started on her voice).
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I do.
As for her voice, I saw an article today recommending that Palin and Bachman hire a voice coach as HRC did.
They precipitate migraines.
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I was just talking about her singing voice in keeping with the siren theme.
Palin and Bachmann do make my head hurt, but its stems from their ideas not their voices.
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Their speaking voices give me a migraine. I don’t mean that in a sexist way, but women need to know that to project they do badly by shrieking. Palin is supposed to have been a communications major (what kind of major is that?). I would expect her to know better.
Ideas are one thing. Fact is another. They are ill-informed.
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Communications is like a broadcasting major with no journalism component. Video production and such.
Many women know that, to be taken seriously, it is better to either roar as opposed to shriek (a la Sheila Jackson Lee) or not to raise your voice at all (a la Nancy Pelosi, who has a kind of odd voice to begin with and wisely chooses not to raise it, ’cause she’d sound really funny). Even so, I think this picture speaks volumns. A pun? Perhaps.
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Even that gives me a headache. Yikes!
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I think I’m going to refer to her as Batshit Bachmann now.
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Good idea. She cannot read a map.
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ahahahahaahahahahaahahahahahha that photo is priceless! so is your new name for her!
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Yes, she is now officially dubbed Batshit Bachmann because the more she speaks the more the name seems to fit.
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OMG! Does she look like she needs any … “help?” I don’t think so!
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Our girl is a charmer. She flirts with the guys with impunity and they eat it up. She looks up at them from under her lashes with those big blue eyes of hers and the guys melt. When she flashes her big smile at them and swipes an invisible mot from their jackets, the guys straighten up and puff their chests. It’s a sight to withhold. LOL!!!
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Terrific description!
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She does get them going.
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I will never forget former foreign minister david milliband’s response to be beign classified as a nerd well Hillary doesn’t think I’m a nerd lol.
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😀 She is the International Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Judgments on Nerdiness. If she adjudges you “not a nerd,” officially, you are not a nerd.
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As a nerd myself, I have a hard time accepting someone who has been quoted as saying they don’t know a Twitter from a tweeter as one of my fellow nerds, but anyone who chases IT personnel around demanding Wi-Fi does get major nerd points.
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Well, I didn’t say she’s a nerd. I just said she’s the supreme judge of who is and is not a nerd. Personally, when she said that I was pretty sure she knew a Twitter from a Tweet since she was the one who introduced me to Twitter and I thought it was a word she made up herself. It sounded like a “Hillary word” – like “townterview.” I know she wasn’t doing the tweeting herslf, but she knew she had the account.
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What other words has she created? I thought that was Dubya’s domain.
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She made some up during the campaign that I can’t remember anymore (which is why I thought she made up “twitter”). I was used to her doing it. I should have kept a list. She mostly makes compounds. I think “statecraft” is hers.
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That was an odd paragraph. “Getting our own house in order”? Interesting talk from a Secretary of State who is done with politics and the public sector. I found her statement about having to “consolidate our own economic and political position in order to be able to continue to influence events in the future,” very intriguing as well. That all sounds… vaguely familiar.
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Sounds more than vaguely… domestic! Wha….?
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She also caught herself saying “we”.
Who is this ‘we’ our non-political, soon to be in the private sector Secretary referring to?
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We is we! i.e. all of us. I think she was speaking for the administration. But HRC speaks for us all.
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It read as campaign-ish to me. She fell into her old political “we” for a moment. Can’t take the politics out of the girl.
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I don’t know if she made them up or not, but I remember reading that she’d says silly things as First Lady.
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Trust me. She’s an incurable neologist. Especially words with “w” in them because when she says them she makes the “kissy-mouth.” Don’t think for a minute that she doesn’t know that. It’s why I was suspicious of “twitter.”
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You think she’s trying to create the verbal equivalent of the chess scene in the original Thomas Crown Affair by sneakily and subtly employing w-words? Who is she trying to entice with her skillful, calculated use of her lips? Kissy-mouth diplomacy? Kissy-mouth political strategy? Kissy-mouth marriage maintenance?
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During the primaries? Everybody! Now? Well, world leaders are a given. More? Hmmm… why did she say last night that we have to get our own house in order? (Everybody.)
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On another subject, I like her jacket. This is a very flattering suit.
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I like the neckline. She has that pretty blouse peeking out from under it. Very pretty!
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I missed it, it was my birthday and I was out celebrating with friends. Wuuuaaa!!!
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There’s a link to the video right above the slideshow. PBS doesn’t let you embed. I saw part of the video on the link – excellent quality – just like on TV. Enjoy!
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Thank you!!!
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