An Uncommon Résumé in an Unusual Time

[elleng]

"The biggest question mark on Mrs. Clinton’s résumé may be whether she can actually negotiate a peace deal — a requirement for any good secretary of state. Mrs. Clinton has not had to lock warring foreign leaders in a room and bully them into submission, or shuttle between world capitals to prod officials to sign a piece of paper.

Mrs. Clinton has praised Gen. Wesley K. Clark, the former NATO commander, and Mr. Holbrooke, an envoy to the Balkans in the Clinton administration, for their conduct of diplomacy, in which both men socialized and drank with Serbia’s wartime leader, Slobodan Milosevic, to gauge his strengths. “You don’t learn something from him by pointing at him across the ocean,” she told The New York Times in an interview this year.

Philippe Reines, Mrs. Clinton’s spokesman, said she had worked as a senator to persuade Manhattan entrepreneurs to invest in economic development in upstate New York, and even worked to get Manhattan restaurateurs to use farm products from upstate.">>>

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/03/us/politics/03clinton.html?_r=1

[DS1]

1. Let's see

We've gone from an expert in Russian politics (Rice) whom was totally useless at everything including terrorism, and still failed to see the strategic rise of the Empire of Russia, to Hillary Clinton whom is far more equipped with contacts and understands the global repercussions of the decisions made by the SOS, and the NY Times are complaining?

Please.

[Billy Burnett]

2. Plus she'll be able to knock back drinks with the big boys.

And chase them with a beer. :beer:





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