What they’re saying about Hillary Clinton – 3/28/10
Every week I’m taking a look at some of the more interesting and sometimes off-beat comments the world media has to say about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here are a few choice excerpts for this week’s report –
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Pakistani Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi share some laughs.
Tennesee Guerilla Women 3/25/2010
Norman Finkelstein Responds to Clinton, Netanyahu AIPAC Comments
I’m sure all of your listeners and your viewers are familiar with the magnitude of US aid to Israel. I think the important development is what Amnesty International said after the invasion of Gaza.
They said three main things: number one, that the US is by far the biggest supplier of weapons to Israel; number two, supplying those weapons to Israel is not only illegal under international law, it’s illegal under domestic US law; and number three, it said—and I think it’s important for your viewers to hear it—Amnesty International said what happened in Gaza could—and they describe what happened in Gaza as twenty-two days of death and destruction—what happened in Gaza could not have happened were it not for US taxpayer money.
And now along comes Hillary Clinton, and she’s extolling US military aid to Israel. The part that she left out is, number one, it’s all illegal under international and domestic US law, and number two, it was that US aid that made possible—you have to bear in mind—I know your program chronicled the use of the white phosphorus—every white phosphorus shell they found—you can see it in the Human Rights Watch report on the white phosphorus—every one was made in the United States. We are responsible for that war. It’s not just a cliché. It’s a factual matter. We made that massacre happen.
Axis of Logic 3/27/2010
Chavez: Clinton thinks US owns ‘the continent’
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez scorns US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as an ancient thinker, charging her with interfering in Venezuelan domestic affairs.
“She still considers herself the imperial lady. She is behind the times,” Chavez said during his visit to Ecuador on Friday.
“She still thinks the United States is the owner of this continent,” he added.
Press TV 3/27/2010
U.N. soiree may feature Clinton vs. Clinton
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is expected to grab the spotlight with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Haitian President Rene Preval at a major fundraiser next week and in the process shove her husband, former President Bill Clinton, to the sidelines.
U.N. sources say Hillary, representing the Obama White House, will be a “central” figure at the U.N.’s Haiti Donor Conference to be convened at the organization’s New York City headquarters Wednesday. Bill Clinton, as special envoy, has been the U.N.’s point man on Haitian relief efforts over the last several months.
World Net Daily 3/27/2010
What they’re saying about Hillary Clinton – 3/21/10
Every week I’m taking a look at some of the more interesting and sometimes off-beat comments the world media has to say about Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Here are a few choice excerpts for this week’s report –
Women In The World: Stories And Solutions’ Summit Draws Hillary Clinton, Queen Rania To New York
The conference opened Friday evening with remarks by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who brought her daughter, Chelsea, along. The audience watched a clip of Clinton, as first lady, making her famous remarks at the 1995 U.N. women’s conference in Beijing, where she declared that “Women’s rights are human rights.”
Clinton quipped that those remarks came “15 years and many hairstyles ago.” Progress had been made, she joked, on both fronts. Turning serious, she called progress “undeniable, but insufficient.”
The Huffington Post 3/14/10
What Would Hillary Have Done?
Posted by Kevin Winge
Although many people discount Hillary Clinton’s eight years as First Lady, that time in Washington, combined with eight years as a U.S. senator, provided her with more than four times the D.C. beltway experience than that of the first-term senator from Illinois. Given those experiences and the relationships that Clinton cultivated, had she assumed the presidency with the same majorities in Congress and the Senate that Obama enjoyed, it is likely that much more legislation would have been passed in the first year of a Hillary Clinton administration. Included in that legislation might have been health care reform that wouldn’t have left the nation black and blue from all of the posturing, bickering and verbal assaults we have endured over the past year.
Star Tribune – Your Voices 3/18/10
Hillary Clinton’s Personal Vendetta Against The State of Israel
If you scour the internet about Hillary’s reaction and outlash against Israel last week, you will see countless accounts of what pundits and journalists deem a “surprising” and “heated” overreaction against the Israelis. Well, it’s all about the scorn of Hillary Clinton and it brings up a dangerous idea. What happens when an official of the United States can seriously damage the relationship between America and one of its biggest friends and allies all due to a personal grudge?
Holger Awakens 3/18/10
From Bitter Campaign to Strong Alliance
Sixteen months after Mr. Obama surprised nearly everyone by picking her as secretary of state, the two have again surprised nearly everyone by forging a credible partnership. Mrs. Clinton has proved to be an eager team player, a tireless defender of the administration, ever deferential to Mr. Obama and careful to ensure that her husband, the former president, does not upstage her boss. Mr. Obama has been solicitous of Mrs. Clinton, yielding to her at times in internal debates, even showing signs of adopting some of her more hawkish world views.
They now joke about their “frenemies” status and have made gestures toward each other’s families. When Mr. Obama learned that Chelsea Clinton had become engaged, he turned to Mrs. Clinton and asked, “Does she want a White House wedding?” a senior official recalled.
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 3/19/10
Hillary says she’s “absolutely not interested” in running for president again.
Hillary and Chelsea after big win during 2008 primary.
Hillary tells Tavis Smiley that she will not likely stay on as Secretary of State for an entire Obama presidency if there is a second term. She also says she is “absolutely not interested” in running for president again.
TAVIS SMILEY: Finally, there’s already speculation about whether or not Secretary Clinton is going to do this for the full first time, and whether or not she has any interest if asked to stay on to do it for eight years? You see how tough the job is, can you imagine yourself doing all four years and, if asked, doing it for another four years?
HILLARY CLINTON: No, I really can’t. I mean, it is just…
TAVIS SMILEY: No to what? All four or eight?
HILLARY CLINTON: The whole, the whole eight, I mean, that that would be very challenging. But I, you know, I don’t wanna make any predictions sitting here, I’m honored to serve, I serve at the pleasure of the President, but it’s a, it’s a 24/7 job, and I think at some point, I will be very happy to LAUGHS pass it on to someone else.
As for the presidency. . .
TAVIS SMILEY: And finally, just for the record, you have said before, emphatically, in fact, that you are not interested in running again for President of the United States, I’m taking your answer now to mean that that’s still the same?
HILLARY CLINTON: Absolutely not interested.
