Hillary Clinton and Chelsea represented the Clinton Foundation at the Wildlife Trafficking Forum at the White House today. It has been reported that she met with President Obama prior to the event. She was scheduled to make some comments on Syria before today’s developments which included Secretary of State John Kerry remarking that one option for a solution would be that Syria turn over its chemical weapons to an international body. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, shortly afterward, made that formal suggestion to Syria. Hillary included these developments in her remarks.
It is always helpful to have a written transcripts of remarks like these, so I hope they will become available. I will add them here if they do. Meanwhile here is a video of Hillary Clinton’s comments from today as former Secretary of State on Syria as as representative of the Clinton Foundation on wildlife trafficking.
Love all the pictures in this post. .. makes you kind of picture her as president.
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She was very presidential! So joyful to be there with Chelsea! 🙂
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I’m currently out of the country so I haven’t kept up with all the news on Syria. What I don’t get is why there was so much pressure on Hillary to make a statement on Syria. She is currently not in a political post, neither is she the SOS. Why don’t they let her be?
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It was the media – specifically Maggie Haberman at Politico – who kept harassing her for a statement on Syria. So they released a very short one at first. But. it seems the White House, specifically Obama, have also been pressuring her. Apparently she spent much of last week on the phone with the White House. No one explained to Obama that he only gets one Secretary of State at a time, it seems.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/hillary-clinton-syria-mark-pryor-chuck-schumer-96481.html?hp=t2_7
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convincing senators should be kerry’s job, not hillary’s. is he that ineffectual???
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Well he’s no Hillary.
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More like Obama is so ineffectual that he needs two secretaries of state at one time.
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None of them are Hillary! Nor BO nor Kerry have all the qualities and gifts she has! They both need her!
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Forget about Obama and Kerry– this whole country needs her!!!
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Thanks, Still. It seems that even when she doesn’t hold a public job our girl is in high demand. LOL!!!
Obama must have meant it when he said that he would miss her. Goodness knows that Kerry is no Hillary.
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Seriously, Bea. If you had Hillary working with you and she left, would you be satisfied with anyone else?
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Nope, I would miss her too. Besides, Kerry is such a bore.
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