Senator Clinton Plays It Cool at Munich Security Conference

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Mrs. Clinton evoked chuckles when she thanked Secretary General Kofi Annan "for giving my husband a new job" as the United Nations' special envoy for countries affected by the tsunami crisis, without identifying her husband as President Bill Clinton. She added that her husband is "deeply grateful."
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In preparing her speech, Mrs. Clinton had enlisted the aid of a number of American participants in the forum, among others Richard C. Holbrooke, who served as her husband's ambassador to the United Nations and to Germany; Samuel R. Berger, her husband's national security adviser; Jeffrey H. Smith, the former general counsel at the Central Intelligence Agency when her husband was president; and Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser for President George H. W. Bush.

Mrs. Clinton, who supported the invasion of Iraq, referred to the "diplomatic train wreck" in the United Nations Security Council in 2003 that failed to forge consensus on the American-led war in Iraq and split the trans-Atlantic alliance, without saying who was to blame. She said the Bush administration and "its conservative allies" had been wrong to denounce the United Nations "in violent terms," since the decisions to deny authority for military action in Iraq were made by the member countries themselves.
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At the conference's gala dinner on Saturday night, Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, singled out Mrs. Clinton for praise. He noted that Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, the Connecticut Democrat, was absent last year "because he was pursuing a failed presidential campaign." Mr. McCain, who flirted with a presidential bid himself, suggested that Mrs. Clinton may be next, joking that he and Senator Lieberman "are fellow losers, but this year Senator Clinton is here to keep hope alive."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/13/international/europe/13cnd-munich.html?ex=1266037200&en=1f1c033b8674496d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland

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1. I cannot help but like McCain. Even though his patsy man act during the

campagne was beneath him. I still say they must have 'promised him Rove' or something to keep him quiet.

[Rose Siding]

2. And I was just wondering how Hillary could stand him

after the joke he told at that GOP fundraiser about her daughter. What was it? "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly?" "Because her dad is Janet Reno"

He apologized when it hit the media, but still, what grown man uses a public venue to talk about a kid that way?

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3. I didn't know about that - what a misogynistic asshole!!

[Fovea]

4. 'what grown man uses a public venue to talk about a kid that way'

It has been said that a question well asked, answers itself.

Thanks for a proof of concept.

[Placebo]

5. It's so interesting to watch...

the political character of a Presidential Candidate slowly form over time. And it's still so early! I can't wait to get a load of Hillary come 2007.

Hillary '08 :)

[Rex]

6. How deep does the blame go?

These super-rich get travel round the globe eating the best and living it up. Why? We pay them to. We police the planet. We bomb the shit out of people with tax dollars.