http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/tea-time/#more-3540.........But speaking to an audience here tonight, Mrs. Clinton responded ever-so-gently to Senator Barack Obama’s suggestion one day earlier that her foreign policy experience essentially could be boiled down to sipping tea in exotic locales.
“I was so honored to be able to travel around the world, representing our country, going to places that oftentimes were not necessarily a place the president could go,” Mrs. Clinton said. “We used to say in the White House that if a place was too dangerous, too small or too poor, send the first lady.”
Then, she recounted a trip to Bosnia in 1996 after the Dayton Peace Accords were signed, noting: “I was the first high-profile American to go.”
“We landed in one of those corkscrew landings and ran out because they said there might be sniper fire,” Mrs. Clinton recalled. “I don’t remember anybody offering me tea on the tarmac when that was happening.”
With that, the audience broke out into laughter. Mrs. Clinton laughed, too, ...............
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