Hillary Clinton wrapped up a marathon week at UNGA in New York City this afternoon with every bit as much grace, grit, good humor, and glamor as when she began. Her Smart Power Doctrine did double-duty through most of the week as the president spent just 24 hours in town, long enough to drop by for an appearance on The View and deliver his address to the General Assembly. His regular meetings and events for the rest of the week were covered by Her Excellency (along with her own scheduled events) as Acting Chief Executive of the U.S. at her last UNGA as Secretary of State. She did a spectacular job and has won praise from some unlikely sources.
From Politico.
Newt talks up Hillary Clinton
By EMILY SCHULTHEIS|
9/26/12 12:59 PM EDT
Vodpod videos no longer available.Newt Gingrich offered some praise of the Secretary of State on Fox News last night:
Hillary Clinton is a serious person, Barack Obama is an ambitious person. They’re very different personalities.
Hillary Clinton actually gets up every day, thinking about public policy; Barack Obama gets up every day, thinking about Barack Obama. They’re very different approaches to life.
Mayor Mike chimed in on his radio show as the New York Post reports.
Clinton a ‘class act’
- By DAVID SEIFMAN
- Last Updated: 10:16 AM, September 28, 2012
- Posted: 10:15 AM, September 28, 2012
Run, Hillary, run?
With speculation brewing about a possible Hillary Clinton run for the presidency in 2016, Mayor Bloomberg today praised her as a shining light in the Obama Administration and called himself a “big fan” of her work as Secretary of State.
“She has worked as hard as anybody can work,” the mayor observed on his weekly WOR radio show.
“I’m not sure I agree with all her policies– some yes, some no. But Hillary Clinton is a class act and has worked over and above what you could ask for somebody to represent the Obama Administration.”
This review from RTT News sparkles almost as much as Mme. Secretary did all week!
Hillary Clinton Shines As Obama Surrogate At UN Meeting
9/28/2012 11:36 AM ET
(RTTNews) – Hillary Clinton may have lost the Democratic primary to Barack Obama back in 2008, but this week in New York, she was Secretary of State and Commander-in-Chief all rolled into one as she acted as the president’s surrogate at the United Nations General Assembly.Clinton, who arguably has closer ties with many of the world’s top leaders than the president, took over many of the tasks usually left to the president during this week.
President Obama only spent 24-hours in the city, choosing to eschew formal meetings with world leaders to return to his campaign schedule. He was the first president in over 20 years not to meet with a foreign leader at the conference.
Finally, Jezebel does a great takedown of a snarky article in the Daily Mail when a photographer caught a shot of doodles on the top page of Mme. President’s prepared remarks at a Security Council meeting.
Sep 28, 2012 12:45 PM 15,028 44
Hillary Clinton’s UN Doodles Clearly a Window Into Her Innermost Thoughts
Birds do it. Bees do it. Secretaries of State hearing UN pleas do it. Yesterday, a photographer caught Hillary Clinton aimlessly drawing on her speech notes during a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East peace process. The situation is grim, shooting, suffering etc., but all of that starts to run together after awhile. Let’s get to the more interesting water cooler conversation-y stuff that doesn’t bum everyone out: what do Hillary Clinton’s doodles tell us about her personality?
As breathlessly reported by The Daily Mail (which helpfully included an unflattering picture of Hillary Clinton’s face contorting mid-wink with their coverage, you know, for added clarity), Clinton appeared to space out during remarks given by other diplomats, drawing an organized series of interlocking circles and a star on a copy of her prepared speech.
**Edited to add this** Chicago Sun-Times. Too good to pass up from Lynn Sweet, the scorekeeper!
U.S. meetings at UN: Obama, 0, Hillary Clinton, 25
By Lynn Sweet on September 28, 2012 3:10 PMWASHINGTON–President Barack Obama decided not to do face-to-face meetings with global leaders in New York for the United Nations General Assembly this week, outside of courtesy calls to UN officials. The lack of in-person meetings drew fire from Mitt Romney and other GOP critics. Obama delivered a major speech to the UN on Tuesday. While it may be just too close to the election for Obama one-on-ones, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton held 25 meetings with leaders from around the world, a State Department spokesman said Friday.
Mike Hammer, Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, recapping Clinton’s week told reporters Friday, “since arriving last Sunday and starting her meetings then, held 25 bilateral and trilateral meetings.
“And that is in addition to events that covered every region of the world. For example, you saw the U.N. secretary-general’s meeting on the Sahel. We had a trans-Atlantic dinner with EU and NATO foreign ministers. We had a Central American ministerial. We had an ASEAN foreign ministers meeting.
Madame President, thank you, always, for your tireless and cheerful efforts. We wish you, as my dear friend Robyn always says, a peaceful and restful weekend. Job superlatively done!
There were soooo many articles and tweets about the doodles. Speaking as somone whose high school and college notebooks were filled with all kinds of doodles and sketches, I found the whole thing amusing. 😀
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I loved it too. My notes are always accompanied by doodles and have been since childhood.
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In other (rather old) news, Ben Stein thinks the Secretary should resign over the loss of our ambassador and three others in Libya.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0912/81330.html
Let us all pause for a moment to ponder whether anyone has given three figs about anything Ben Stein has said in the last 30 or so years.
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Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?
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EXACTLY! I was hoping someone would supply a ‘Bueller’ as a rejoinder.
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((( 😀 ))) ROTFLMAO!!!! One of my all-time fav movies!
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LOL
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“… something D-O-O economics. Voodoo economics.” (Still rings true!)
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I think some well known political figures’ economic ideas end in the letters D-O-O, but the first half begins with d, not v.
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If the students in that class were not bored into a coma, one of them might have offered that response.
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I would have been doodling. 🙂
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😀
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stein realizes hillary is far and away the most valuable member of the administration, so he’s trying to hit obama where it hurts. but as you say, no one cares what he says so it’s a moot point, lol.
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We can’t even stay awake while he’s saying it. LOL!!!
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Merçie bcp chère hillary clinton pour votre soutienne qui vous donnez à syrie et le monde entier pour le paix …. en vous aime et la tunisie qui t’aime bcp …mais la jalousie vert vous ne s’arrete pas car vous etes une femme mieux que 1000 homme ou plus ….mais vous restez la grande et la plus forte des politicienne de monde qui cherche que la paix au monde entier ….la tunisie veut une autre visite … marime vous passe le grand salut avec 5 bisoux … elle me demande quand elle vous voit chere …hilary clinton … merçie merçie bcp pour votre soutienne en vous aime bcp …
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Ok off topic, but can someone explain to me why people are calling for susan rice to resign(she’s not myfav person but I needed broken down why now if she was just saying what the whitehouse told her.
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It’s Peter King (R-NY), and I wish people would understand that what we know changes with time. Suppose the FIRST statement from the administration had been that this was a terrorist attack? Wouldn’t that have seemed premature? Caution in stating a cause was wise in this case. All she did was appear on TV and state the administration’s position at that moment.
That said, and in light of John Kerry’s rant to Andrea Mitchell yesterday about his Republican colleagues on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the rest of the Republican Party in general, it seems clear that since Rice works for the White House, she is the sacrificial lamb. Under the bus with her. She will never be SOS now. Kerry, staunchly defended Hillary and stated strongly that the letter from the committee is a matter of form (and Mitchell really stood up to him – NO ONE wants to see Hillary blamed). He will not let her be blamed. So-oo I think if Obama is reelected Kerry is the next SOS.
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i’m a little confused. so both kerry and mitchell stood up for hillary?
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Mitchell was interviewing him – asking him about the letter the committee sent her. The Republicans evidently are trying to say this letter indicates seriously flawed foreign policy while Kerry is insisting it has no reflection on Hillary and is a matter of course in situations like the attack in Benghazi.
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Yep, if Obama is reelected the next SOS will be Kerry. Poor world leaders and foreign ministers, Kerry is a pompous bore. LOL!!!
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What is wrong with the media. They have to blame someone for the Libyian crisis so they pick Hillary Clinton as their sacrifical lamb (so what else is new). In fact if they dig a little they will find that it was Hillary who was fighting the administration to get more protection in areas of danger. When Obama wanted to move all the troops out of Iraq…it was Hillary who asked the President to leave 30,000 Marines in there to protect the civilians who came from the State Department. But Obama said no, leaving the civilians vulnerable. I am sure she would have asked about Libiya too. Also the Congress cut the State Departments budget, which didn’t help. It would help if the media checked over its own stories.
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The media is sold and bought. We know that. But Hillary is way too meticulous to get caught in this tangled web. Liberating Libya was her baby from the NFZ to reestablishment of diplomatic personnel. I am sure she did not leave an “i” undotted. They will not be able to hang any signs on Hillary. She does her work well, and would NEVER have put Chris Stevens in danger. He was her friend and associate. She never would have done that even to a stranger. Ever.
Thank you for chiming in! We love new voices here! WELCOME!!!!
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i agree totally that she never would’ve put the ambassador in danger.
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Hillary will not be thrown under the bus. She has plenty of defenders, including Obama and Bill.
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