Hillary, Our Nation’s and Our World’s Lonely Eyes Turn to You …
By SusanUnPC on November 22, 2008 at 3:25 AM in World News
… to help heal the deep wounds from the Bush years. The unending wrongs around the world seek your careful attention. We know you cannot begin to solve all that ails the world’s people, but we know that you care deeply and that you will do all that you possibly can. We also know that your mission to begin to restore the U.S.’s image around the world will also help the world’s people. We will try our hardest to help you by publicizing your endeavors. May we suggest you have a blog? A YouTube channel? An invitation to “citizen journalists” like us who are eager to learn what you are doing and how we can help you?
BELOW, a smattering of just SOME of the issues facing the world, and the challenges facing Hillary Clinton. All first-world nations take from poorer countries, but imho the worst offender is China, as you will see below:
All while China pillages the riches of DR Congo (the Democratic Republic of Congo), and abets the rebel thugs and rapists:
Learn more about what China is doing in DR Congo (and, for that matter, ALL of Africa without an iota of TRUE interest in any human rights or help for the countries’ citizens):
General Laurent Nkunda, rebel leader of the National Congress for People’s Defence (CNDP), has said he wants to re-examine a $5bn dollar deal the Congolese government has struck with China.
The deal gives China access to Congo’s vast mineral riches in exchange for infrastructure development, including hospitals and football arenas.
However, critics say China is behaving just like the imperial powers of the past.
Al Jazeera’s Nicole Johnston reports.
It’s back to the WORLD AT LARGE:
This episode of The Listening Post is a special show that explores some of the worst places in the world for journalism.
Every year, the French media campaign group Reporter Sans Frontieres (Reporters Without Borders) publishes its Press Freedom Index.
Looking specifically at press freedom violations, rather than broader human rights issues, the index represents an exhaustive survey of factors affecting the ability of media to operate in every country in the world, considering factors such as violence, censorship and corruption. The results make disturbing reading.
The Listening Post’s Salah Khadr introduces the Index, and gives an overview of some of the ‘unchanging hells’ at the foot of the table.
The difficulties of reporting from some of the most closed countries that RSF describes are hard to appreciate from outside their borders. Over the last 12 months, The Listening Post’s Simon Ostrovsky has travelled to a selection of the most paranoid and isolated nations. This week we present some of the ‘highlights’ of his trips: including Alexander Lukashenko’s Soviet throwback, Belarus, General Than Shwe’s junta in the jungle, Myanmar, and the restrictions still being imposed on the media in Russia.
HERE, the “Listening Post” focuses on the U.S. newspaper industry’s problems:
The Listening Post’s Robin Armstrong reports on the ailing US newspaper industry.
This is a chronic affliction - both advertising revenue and readership are shrinking, and newspapers across the country are performing something of a disappearing act. Moreover, US newspapers have seen their share value drop more than any other sector in the media industry, papers are haemorrhaging staff. They are faced with a choice: either migrate to the internet, or die.
The Listening Post goes to California, home of one of America’s oldest and best-known titles, the San Francisco Chronicle, to see if the US newspaper industry is about to publish its own obituary.
In Newsbytes, we look at a cartoon saga in South Africa; an inflammatory DVD about Islamic extremism; media coverage of the forthcoming Belarusian parliamentary elections; a tightening of the grip on the media in China and Russian PM, Vladimir Putin, who is said to be fuming that an exclusive interview with CNN was heavily edited.
Closing our show with this week’s Video of the Week is a quirky viral showing North Korea’s Dear Leader Kim Jong Il as an animated video game character. Created by a German entertainment show, the video puts Jong Il through a Super Mario-like sequence, complete with hostile enemy countries and nuclear bombs.
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I HOPE HILLARY STAYS IN THE SENATE. OBAMA IS TRYING TO GET HER OUT SO SHE WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RUN AGAIN WHEN HE IS EJECTED FROM THAT WHITE HOUSE FOR NOT BEING A US CITIZEN!
ooooo She’ll be so popular it might make Barry JEALOUS!!
but it’s a nice thing you are willing to do NO QUARTER for Hillary! ANd she does deserve it and DOES CARE about this country!
That I would believe over most anything else!
A YouTube channel is a great idea!
How can Hillary, alone, fix all of our international problems? I will not give Hillary Lone Savior status any more than I’d give it to Obama.
Somehow, it seems to me, people have confused the SoS position with the POTUS position. The Secretary of State does not set foreign policy. True, the SoS has input based on meetings with foreign diplomats and leaders. Again, the SoS works for the President. The President sets the agenda and the SoS carries it out.
Will the same group of people, the Democratic Party, DNC (with Donna Brazile as it’s head), Obama supporters and cheer leading MSM give Hillary the credit? More likely they’ll blame her if everything doesn’t go perfectly. Heck they’re already vilifying her and she hasn’t even personally accepted the job.
I ain’t buying it. Many of the same folks that are cheering for Hillary to be SoS will be the first to blame her should we invade Pakistan and send more troops to Afghanistan. The fact that Obama stated these things as his foreign policy objectives will be forgotten. It’ll be the warmongering Hillary at it again.
That’s my take on this.
Finally…someone gets it.
Nothing good comes from working for 0bama. Stay in the Senate and keep your voice. Stay in the Senate and let Bill keep his voice. Please.
I agree 100%. HRC stay in the senate. Don’t get involved with BO. I fear a SOS job would be just to get her out of the senate, then a firing about a year down the road.
Obama is open to interpretation and revision practically on the spot. A week after the speech he denied ever calling for a full-scale Invasion of Pakistan. And Bush is also cheerleading for more troops to Afghanistan…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKvc6aj08g4
Whatever the DNC tries to pull, most Americans, in my opinion, will consider Clinton the foreign policy mastermind about to the extent they think of Iraq as the War of Colin Powell and now Condoleezza Rice. And she will no doubt be a much stronger, more honest voice for stability, moderation and good in the world than either of these footman ever could.
I think it is a bad idea. She will not accomplish what other didn’t. At the same time this will stop what she will be able to accomplish. Also as a Clinton supporter who did not fall in line I feel this is an attempt to silance us. I am sure there are going to be so many legall issues to surface, and they need all the help they need. That could be one of the reasons for that move. He ( or his handelers) needed to round all the troops including the people whom they trashed and cheated for a year. But my question is why is she doing it.
But my question is why is she doing it.
If you ponder that question seriously, ownaa… it will force you to abandon the belief that Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination through cheating and thuggery.
For surely Hillary Clinton would not abandon her Senate career to work alongside an abusive fraud of a lying, incompetent sexist pig. I mean, that makes no sense! You see that, right?
I may have your answer but it will probably anger everybody….
http://logisticsmonster.com/2008/11/22/the-monsters-reaction-to-senator-clinton-as-secretary-of-state/
I’m sorry. That reads worse than some of the Oswald was/wasn’t alone theories.
Check out Marc Rubin’s blog. His take on this is interesting.
Rubin’s take IS interesting. It makes a lot of sense. I was wondering about all the ex-Clinton staff appointed to BO’s new White House team and why Hillary would ever want to work for him. Marc’s article definitely sheds some light on that.
I think HRC and Bill may yet outsmart the Pelosi wing of the party. It’s going to be an interesting 4 years.
Not necessarily. Hillary might just be the ultimate pragmatist or cynic. She might be thinking the same way I do that if you can’t guard against cheating then you deserve to lose.
Nope. Not at all. I’m sure Hillary has her own reasons for whatever course of action she takes. Maybe she wants to round out her career of public service with a cabinet post, or maybe she’s adding foreign exp. to her resume in preparation for another run. Who knows what will happen.
Hillary has been forced to deal with misogyny and bigotry throughout her career. Most women do.
Wrong. Hillary has not been forced to deal with anything. Give the woman credit, she has chosen her own destiny and chosen her own path. I do not buy into victim-hood and neither does Hillary. She is doing this because she wants it and believes rightly she has a lot to offer. Stop making her sound weak and manipulated, she is strong and decisive choosing her own destiny.
You have taken my comment completely out of context.
FOR HOW LONG AGAIN YOU PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME TO THE FACT THAT WE THE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HELD HOSTAGES BY THESE WASHINGTON POLITICIANS WHO EXCERCISE THE RIGHT OF LIFE AND DEATH ON US.WE ARE THEIR SLAVES.
Hillary would be better off staying in the Senate. Obama trashed her during the primaries, we all know the details, no need to list them, the trolls know them too. At least as a Senator she could keep her dignity and work on what she wants to. I agree w others, Hillary will just be a scapegoat for Obama’s and Pelosi, Reid and the rest of the thugs, mistakes.
As for the lame reason that she wouldn’t work w a thug, liar and cheater, perhaps as a person of honor she is setting aside thinking the bigger picture is to help the country. Hmmm, honor, wouldn’t that be a rare thing in an Obama administration.
The whole premise of the tone of this article is a little whacky. A weakened US is the biggest problem that 0bama has, not undoing the Bush years. That’s the smoke. The mirror is telling 0bama that the world sees him as weak weak weak. So. Pick a woman? 0bama? I smell something. I don’t know exactly what …. but it doesn’t quite seem to fit with turkey ….
Before you bash China for it’s tangential dealings with Congo, why not examine American direct aid via Rwandan RPF into the Congo. It’s like you guys listen to Samantha Powers and deliberately ignore the policies of the US government in Africa.
Where do you think Inkunda is getting his men and money from? From Rwanda. People won’t seem to expose Rwanda for the local troublemaking they are doing because that would be somehow politically incorrect after civil unrest over a decade ago, largely spurred on by an internal power struggle (although the Congolese civil war at the time certainly didn’t help at all).
The average American citizen has zero idea about what their government is doing in their name abroad and what these activities will bring in the future.
US strength lies in its economy, not its military, which Bush and Cheney have spread way too thin for years. The American home grown products have kept us in power for decades. Hillary is best at economy. She wants us to manufacture our own defense weapons and parts and not send them to China, from whom we borrow billions of dollars while THEY make the magnets for one of our missilies. Indiana used to make those magnets, I believe.
Sarah is spot on with energy independence as national security. And didn’t USA go begging to a foreign oil regime for 300 BILLION bucks for oil or somthing else? We have to live frugally, quit baling out Wall Street, and stop the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac bleeding of money.
We cannot borrow our way to prosperity. We used to be a creditor nation. Now we’re a debtor nation, a third rate economic “power” and losing our identity.
Hillary knows what she is doing. I still prefer she stay in the Senate, write her policy prosposals which BHO the puppet and all MALE “leaders” continue to steal w/o giving her credit, and take care of the USA FIRST. Hillary has her own voice as a Senator–as SOS she’d have to juggle her voice with the lying, cheating, stealing, narcissistic fraud.
Women, vote as a block next time and put Hillary or Sarah in charge!!!
HAHAHAHAHAAAAAA! Nobody cares about “silancing” you. Obama won handily without you. You are irrelevant. And HRC knows it. It’s why she’s moving on and taking this job.
Congratulations to the former First Lady; I trust that she will serve the nation she loves with honor and distinction as the next US Secretary of State.
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You really think it doesn’t matter which one of those wins, so long as the winner is a woman?
“but we know that you care deeply and that you will do all that you possibly can.”
I voted for Hillary during the primaries and was very upset when she “lost” to Obama; but don’t you think you are a little presumptuous that she will be “great”?
Honestly, since the end of the primaries I have become very disenchantment by her submissiveness. How can she be so great when she has kept her mouth shut regarding the horrendous misogyny and bias going on in this country meanwhile campaigning so hard for BO to elect one of the most unqualified presidents?
“ We also know that your mission to begin to restore the U.S.’s image around the world will also help the world’s people.”
Why doesn’t she try to restore women’s image in this country first?
And as an SOS don’t you think she will be Obama’s puppet controlling her and her husband?
She will work to heal the world (and women’s place in it) by continuing a two decades female dominance of the Secretary of State position. Take that for progress.
Obviously it ultimately looked a more productive route than turning down America’s “face to the world” only to speechify and bellyache about misogyny. The truth will come out. Let it be discovered through his actions, not her words.
Tell me again why China will be a world superpower?
Not like this.
It’s hard enough when policy strives to establish some form of humanitarian aid to the peoples of a third world dictate, when violent retaliation is enabled due to careless imposition of brutality, an armed, and continual guerrilla type response will be established, one which will never be quelled without superior tactical abilities, one which will drain all profitability away from any (oil) enterprise, whether it be immediate, or gradual.
This foreign policy, on behalf of China doesn’t even rise to the level of Jim Baker.
(Wes Clark said Bakers policies were more of a quid pro quo — you get something, we get something. In part, I think without the US demanding something of the oppressive governments it enriched, it encouraged terrorism, supporting governments that may supply oil, but also insuring they have the means to suppress and torture their people, ie the Saudis, and Saddam, adn Iran. Clark suggested we try to develop better policy, a win win type situation that develops a country’s infrastructure, advancing it’s people, while also benefiting the US through trade. In this way, perhaps future violence and terrorism against the US can be limited, a more proactive approach. Something to think about, anyway…)
Right off the bat, China has established itself as a minor thug, not even providing the humanitarian efforts the US does, so much a part of our nations’ success as a superpower.
As a former supporter (not worshipper), I don’t have an answer for why Hillary does what she does. I’ve quit trying to figure it out. I do know one thing–blindly trusting in any politician is unwise.
All politicians are people with agendas–their agendas, which may or may not be the ones they present to the public. We want to believe that we KNOW these people and their motives. We don’t even know our own children, much less the political strangers who tell us what they want us to know. They aren’t telling now, so we’ll have to wait for time to put the puzzle pieces together. After all that happened during the election season, I’m still hoping for the best, but realistically expecting more of the same old same old from all the politicians.
Hillary has abandoned us and now we must do the same. She is a traitor. Sarah is the woman who can lead us to the promised land. She has all the brains of Hillary plus is more correct on the issues. Go SARAH 2012.
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