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Clinton returns to limelight after breaking elbow
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.47b8739dd340ee94d48360400233d5dc.6a1&show_article=1
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to return to the world stage this week when she delivers a major policy speech and resumes foreign travel after a she was sidelined by a broken elbow.
Clinton gets her second wind as she marks her first six months in a job where analysts say she treads a fine line between showing loyalty to President Barack Obama, a former political rival, and imposing herself as chief US diplomat. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is set to return to the world stage this week when she delivers a major policy speech and resumes foreign travel after a she was sidelined by a broken elbow.
But The Cable, a blog for Foreign Policy magazine, said her broken elbow and other circumstances, such as sharing the limelight with high-profile envoys, have made it difficult for Clinton to "dominate her foreign policy turf."
The speech on Wednesday as well as her weekend travel to India and Thailand, the venue for an annual meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, will raise her profile, it said.
Since breaking her elbow June 17, Clinton has missed a meeting of the Group of Eight leading industrial countries in Italy, another on European security in Greece, and a US-Russia summit with Obama in Moscow.
So far Clinton has traveled to Asia, the Middle East, Iraq, Europe, Mexico, the Caribean, Central America and Canada.
Wendy Chamberlin, a former ambassador to Pakistan and career diplomat who now heads the Middle East Institute, told AFP that old colleagues describe Clinton "as a team player," something that is "very much appreciated" by Obama.
"I haven't seen any tension between the two," Chamberlin said of the former rivals for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
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Civil Discourse - ERA - A Mother President - Women's Rights - Primary Reform
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Civil Discourse - ERA - A Mother President - Women's Rights - Primary Reform
waiting in line to kick at Hillary when she appears to be down so join in the kicking and enjoy yourself, I certainly will not.
http://wcbstv.com/national/hillary.clinton.flip.2.1084002.html
I certainly don't want to kick her, Twandx. It's just that she hasn't been herself since taking this post. Explain it to me, please. She is in her sixties, when does she get to be her own woman?
is that it is Constitutionally and culturally impossible for any female to "be her own woman". Throughout the eons she has been defined by men and collectively [with only a few rebels] allowed herself to be so defined.
She not only allows being objectified, she contributes to it. When any woman starts to move beyond her male-defined place she is yanked back by other women. Men have trained women well - crabs in a bucket. Women speak his language which defiles women, putting them into the lexicon as THINGS. As yourself, why are things like cars and boats female? And why do women allow and foster this and teach it to their children?
The long answer is that I am willing to wait comfortably with my admiration and believe in Hillary. I have all of history to back me up. To quote MLK, I have been to the mountain top and it is exactly the same as the muck most women lead their lives in.
Despite this many women have done great things against impossible odds - with most or all of the credit going to men. Still they try, and I for one intend to celebrate and stand fast with these women even as the media and others crab-like try to pull her back from escaping the bucket.
I hope she is ok.