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The Woman in Red

By SusanUnPC on February 26, 2009 at 10:30 AM in China, Current Affairs, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, State Department, State Department Press Briefings

  • Nocturnal Warrior

    Secretary of State Clinton looked great entering the Chamber on Tuesday. Her smile appeared genuinely radiant and she was enthusiastically greeted by those who lined the walk way.

    As I have mentioned previsouly, she appears to be truly at peace with how things have worked out and is attacking her new repsonsiblities with the zeal and tenacity we expect.

    It had to be an odd feeling for her to enter the chamber, one year after entering it as a candidate for President who sought out Ted Kennedy and then Senator Obama on the floor (the very day after Ted gave Obama his blessing) and was rebuffed by the man who is now President (he turned his back, no matter what he says. She smiled and reached out and got to see the back of her opponent.

    Even so, you would never know it as she entered the chamber this week to hear this man (now her boss) give the address she should be making.

    A truly remarkable person, our Secretary of State.

    • PainkillerJayne

      I got chills reading your last statement Warrior.

      She truly is a remarkable woman and right now in my eyes she is outshining the circus being played out in DC as we type.

      *sigh* Hillary, you go girl!

    • Animal Control

      she appears to be truly at peace

      That’s because she is a grownup and comfortrable within herself which is not something I could say of Obama. Please let him eat his waffle!

  • TeakwoodKite

    I wish her well, as SOS Clinton is a bright star in an otherwise dark vacuum of BO’s cosmic debris.

  • CarolynKB

    Perhaps Michelle should call Hillary for some appropriate apparel advice. Hillary looked fabulous, as usual.

    • Elliott

      Is this contempt for the norms of Washington to dress in such an inappropriate manner in the House of Representatives for a constitutionally mandated event? When a middle aged woman is faced with dressing couture or dressing appropriately (if for some strange reason they cannot do both as in a Chanel suit) the more conservative choice always serves best. Someone needs to advise her if they are not afraid and she would listen.

    • wodiej

      LMAO!! No shit!! Hillary looked stunning and her trip to China was one of high achievement and I would expect no less from her.

      I share the sentiment that she is a courageous person with alot of class. O has the crown but Hillary has the “jewels”….

  • Lyn

    So did MEEEshell actually pay for her purple duds or were the clothes and jewelry more of her freebies?

  • SJ

    Am sorry I cant be hypocritical, Hillary supported party before country, when you mixed with the dogs you end up getting bitten by the fleas.

    I cannot accept Hillary yet condemn Obama or laugh at Michelle, to me they are all on the same team and to this day Hillary never explained to her supporters why she supported this man who she openly accused of not being able to run this country.

    He was not able during the primary to become President so I will never understand how in Hillary’e eyes he instantly became the ‘great one”. Hillary did what she felt was right for her politically she went with her party.

    As a voter I am doing what I feel is right for me, there were many questions about Obama that was never answered, I could not support him because of that and did not vote for him even when Hillary asked me to, up to this this I cannot understand her stance so until I do I am not impressed at seeing her as some of you still do.

    • Animal Control

      You make valid points from your perspective–Aint the First Amendment great! Sometimes love of country will make one get down in the ditches with the filth.

    • Ani

      I respect your points, but I take a different view.

      Actually I think Hillary chose country over party — she saw very clearly that Obama was going to win whether she liked it or not and knew that we would need some grown ups minding the store — as Secretary of State she is in a very powerful position to affect our foreign and world policy — since he clearly does not know anything about affairs of state. You have to look at the bigger picture here. In the long run, we are safer with her at the helm of SoS than Obama making another Geithner-like appointment to that position.

      I appreciate her stepping up to the plate even though I am sure this situation made her (and us) sick. So far, she is the one smelling like a rose in all of this.

      • Animal Control

        Agree

      • C.S.

        My main question about Secretary of State Clinton is, considering the vicious animosity directed toward her by both Obamas during the campaign, why would he choose her for that position knowing that she would outshine him? I’m more concerned about who was yanking his strings to get him to do that than why she took the job. (She did know we needed someone like her negotiating with our enemies as well as the few friends we have left.)

        • Animal Control

          Excellent question.

          • PainkillerJayne

            I would like to have been a fly on the wall the day Bill and Barry had lunch. In the interviews after Barry had the look of a dumb struck schoolboy look and Bill was totally in control.

            Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.

            • Animal Control

              hmmmmmmmmmm

        • Nocturnal Warrior

          He took her for the job for a couple of reasons.

          1) She was the only choice he could make that John Kerry would have to stand aside for. He really didn’t want Kerry in his White House.

          2) By placing her in the cabinet, she is forced to abandon fundraising for a potential 2012 run. Cabinet members can not actively solicit campaign funds while serving.

          3) By getting her out of the Senate, he removes a potential road block to any of his initiatives. Her ability to attract coverage and popular support made her dangerous.

          4) By placing her at State, he severely curtails what Bill Clinton will do in terms of foreign visits and contacts during his term. Less chance of being shown up by a former President who is revered outside of our borders.

          5) Despite the animosity, he knows she will do a hell of a good job.

          So all told, it really is a brilliant choice by Obama on many levels.

      • Hilary4HRC

        I completely agree — she did choose country over party — her upbringing, background — she’s a mom — gotta go country.

        She wasn’t paying lip service when she said she loves our country — she’s serving it in the best possible way… for now. She looked amazing the other night. This kind of work definitely agrees with her!

    • basil

      I confess I think the same thing.

      :sad:

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  • Sassy

    Could the answer be self-preservation?
    It would be wise for someone in Washington to know what they are doing!
    Another attack could be successful in the Capitol!

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

    True. Hillary is the embodiment of class, intellect, and the one who will do this country more service in the long run. Obama’s just in it for the show. I hope America will grow up now and stop going for the latest fad.

  • Allie

    I actually think the beginning of this post is a little strident about the color choice of purple for MO – it’s a beautiful color and looks good on her. OTOH the sleeveless dresses ALL the time! In winter! Not a good fashion choice IMO. It smacks of a tough bully stance – not every woman can go sleeveless.

    I wouldn’t normally pick on a woman for her fashion sense – but it’s her choice to lead a lifestyle that calls for designer wear and public scrutiny. If she were doing something else – activist for something! anything! I’d back off.

  • rw

    Madame President greets le petit voleur who stole the election.

    Wow, can she speak with props.

    • rw

      that is, “without props”…guess I was thinking of skinny’s ah, ah, ah while writing.

  • Slim Tyranny

    ZOMG!!!!1 Michelle Obama wore purple!!!1!11!

    Nice “analysis.”

  • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

    Seriously, aren’t you embarrassed that you still think Obama and Magilla Michelle are the saviors of the planet?

    • Slim Tyranny

      Aw, Buzz, you went with the strawman argument approach? Nice try, but a sad failure on your part.

      Face it, there is no analysis in this posting on “The Woman in Red” — just petty, mean-spirited nonsense that tells us more about SusanUnPC than either Obama or Clinton.

      • JustMe

        Tell you what is sad on your part Obama will never look as confident or as together as The Secretary of State or be able to hold his job to the level Hillary will/can:

        She is from good stock, good schools great family background. Hillary walks the walk and actually knows how to talk the talk…

        He ought to be grateful she accepted the offer without her the administration is lacking in every other position.
        Hillary is one tough strong lady a true Patriot and that is one thing Obama will NEVER take away from her!

        GO HILLARY~~

        • Seattle Moss

          Hillary is one tough strong lady a true Patriot and that is one thing Obama will NEVER take away from her!

          We can say that about you too!!

          • JustMe

            Thank you! Friend~~

        • Slim Tyranny

          “She is from good stock, good schools great family background.”

          hahahahaha All that is true, yet none of that discounts Obama. He went to good schools, too. As for “good stock” and “family background”, well, sorry if his parents don’t stack up genetically in your mind, but here in America, “true Patriots” are judged by the content of their own character, not the genetics of their parents or the quality of the parenting they received.

          And once again, a NOTHING response to the substance of my comment. I never questioned Clinton’s patriotism — I mocked the vapid “analysis” of dress colors.

          Dress colors! Are you kidding?!!?! C’mon, JustMe, you gotta admit SusanUnPC’s “analysis” here was mindless nonsense.

          • beebop

            “true Patriots” are judged by the content of their own character, not the genetics of their parents or the quality of the parenting they received.

            er …. uh ….. um …..

            They are also judged by their actions, their words and the record they leave. Absent any access to the records he has left at the various universities and colleges he has attended, we are left with the words *just words* in those novels he has written. He doesn’t have a very flattering picture of his fellow citizens. And his heroes are not exactly (excepting his recent conversion to Lincolnism) the sort whose influence I want to see on the rudder of this ship of state.

          • JustMe

            Slim Tyranny said
            well, sorry if his parents don’t stack up genetically in your mind,

            Where was that said? Your mind is off balance just because these thoughts are at the back of your mind.
            You add words that were not in the post.

            As I said the strength Hillary will show in her position is something NO ONE will take away for her. You don’t gain that by votes that can be taken away from her it is her character.

      • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

        That appears to be a judgement made by you, Slimbo. Apparently you need to make it. So, besides the people you are trying to admonish, who looks petty in this scenario.

        Go get a mirror…

        • JustMe

          and make sure you sweep it up when it cracks !!

          • http://deleted Buzz Latte LaRue

            LOL!! Good one!

            • Slim Tyranny

              hahahahaha

              The backslapping is awesome

        • Slim Tyranny

          Do you disagree with that judgment, Buzz?

          Do you think DRESS COLORS provide us with a wealth of knowledge about Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton? REALLY?!?

          I mean, give me a break. As for “Slimbo”, I mean c’mon, you can do better.

          • beebop

            Perhaps you’d be happier with the intellectual stimulation at Huffypoo? It’s pretty much all self congrats all the time, isn’t it? What a great job they all did (sis boom bah) in the last election? How each of them personally did the work of thousands to get obomba elected? You might miss a high five over there if you don’t hurry back ….

            • Slim Tyranny

              Another commenter drops by to sidestep my comments and talk of random other stuff.

              Unless, of course, you’re admitting that there is no “intellectual stimulation” received by reading a putdown post based on dress color.

  • daisyjane

    I’m conservative but man, I wish she’d won instead of the Zero.

    He’s going to destroy this nation faster than I ever even thought…I figure six months.

    Hillary Clinton would be a relief in the White House; she’s become pragmatic and wise.

    I’d be able to sleep tonight if she were at the helm.

  • BARB

    I find the conversations about dresses, etc. not at all relevant….considering the mess the Obamatrons tell us this country is in. However, when I saw videos of Hillary all smiles with the leaders of China, I remembered this:

    http://www.theepochtimes.com

    Horrific New Evidence of China Organ Harvesting Revealed

    By Jan Jekielek

    Epoch Times Staff on assignment in Warsaw

    Nov 16, 2006

    A Chinese military surgeon had eight Chinese citizens killed to supply a single foreign patient with a new kidney, said former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific David Kilgour on November 14. Kilgour spoke as a special guest at the Asian Human Rights Week forum in Warsaw, on day two of a five day program.

    “The incredible thing is that the doctor would…go down the names on sheets of paper looking for blood types and tissue types and so on, and he [the patient] would point at names on the list. The doctor would then go away and come back with organs,” said Kilgour.

    While conducting research in Asia, Kilgour interviewed a now 35 year-old man (name and nationality withheld) who received a kidney transplant at Shanghai No. 1 People’s Hospital in 2003. The man said that his surgeon was Dr Tan Jianming, Secretary General of the Chinese Research Society of Dialysis and Transplantation. Dr Tan also holds top posts in a number of Chinese military and civilian hospitals.

    The patient suffered from an antibody condition that made it difficult to find a suitable kidney. Over an eight day period, four separate kidneys were brought to him and tested, said Kilgour. When none of those worked, three months later he tried another four – the last of which was a fit. The man was later transferred to No. 85 Hospital of the People’s Liberation Army to convalesce.

    Dr Tan told the man explicitly that these organs came from executed Chinese prisoners, and that at least some of the organs had been harvested secretly, against the donors’ will.

    “I am certain that at least some of these were Falun Gong practitioners who never went near a court, who were never convicted of anything,” said Kilgour.

    Earlier in 2006, Kilgour co-wrote a report detailing evidence of China’s large scale state-supported killing of Falun Gong prisoners of conscience – in order to extract their organs to sell for huge profits to people such as this man. Kilgour and co-author human rights lawyer David Matas estimated that over 41,000 organ transplants performed in China could not be accounted for, based on published records.

    ……….

    Any comments from Hillary or her staff on these state-supported executions and organ harvesting? Do any of them care? (NO!)