Where was Hillary during the SOTU. I have asked and also

[juajen]

tried on the State Dept. site, but I keep getting interference and can't get through. I'm sure she was either in another country or was in a safe underground place, etc. Anybody know?

[Drunken Irishman]

1. She's over in Europe working on behalf of the Obama administration.

Today she was in France (or at least yesterday).

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. I saw some photos of her in France...

I believe she was sent by Obama. She was not the designated person in the safe place.

[shraby]

3. Someone posted the night of the SOTU that she had

a very important meeting in another country and absolutely had to be there. Can't remember which country.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

4. She was in London for a council on National Security

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100127/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/us_state_of_the_union_missing

[onehandle]

5. Hillary Clinton Loses Her Shoe At Elysee Palace (PHOTOS)

Very cute and sweet to see President Sarkozy coming to her aide.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/29/hillary-clinton-loses-her_n_442602.html

[Beacool]

8. Ahhhhh, that's so cute.

Like Cinderella with her glass slipper.

:D

[emilyg]

13. Sweet. She looks good.

[Skip Intro]

17. Damn I love that woman. nt

[elleng]

18. Darned Italian shoes!

[Beacool]

25. Italian?

Ferragamo? I was wondering. I bet a whole bunch of those shoes are going to be sold now.

:D

[elleng]

26. I really have no idea! Just a 'Continental' joke!

[CitizenLeft]

19. damn! Don't you hate when that happens?

So poignant, the shoe sitting there all alone.

She took it in stride! :loveya:

[juajen]

6. Thank you all so much. I don't know how I missed this. Great DU, always

can count on this place.

On edit: Who was the designated hidden, protected person? Sen. Byrd?

[KT2000]

7. At the time of the speech

she was in London. She asked Obama if she should stay for the speech and he said she was needed more in London.

[Obamacare]

9. A better question is

where was Clarence Thomas during the SOTU speech?

[msanthrope]

10. With Scalia---because neither one of them like being around Black people. n/t

[RC]

11. Zing!

[burning rain]

12. Ensconced in her throne in Mordor, plotting her war against the Obobbits.

They will know an age of iron rule, and drink the bitter chalice of Clintonism to the lees!

[lurky]

14. I don't know, but usually someone in the chain of succession

is chosen to stay away from the SOTU. Otherwise you would have nobody to run the country if the unthinkable happened. I don't know if Byrd was the official one, but it's nice to know that somebody a little less frail than him was away from the party also.

[Hekate]

15. Bingo. One member of the Cabinet / line of succession must be absent from occasions like this....

Just in case.

Hekate

[JTFrog]

20. Yea, but it wasn't Hillary. She wasn't at an undisclosed location. n/t

[ashling]

16. One member of the cabinet is always (traditionally) absent from SOTU

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

21. She was on her way to Yemen. Obama asked her to keep the appointment.

It wasn't known until recently exactly when the SOTU would be. It tuned out to conflict with her travel plans.

She volunteered to cancel the meeting for the SOTU but Obama said the meeting was more important.

They looked into making her to "absent" cabinet member for the SOTU, but that person has to be in the US in the undisclosed loaction... makes sense.

So the HUD guy was the designated absentee.

[Captain Hilts]

22. Evidently she got yanked into some last minute Northern Ireland stuff while in the UK. nt

[Stinky The Clown]

23. France

[realFedUp]

24. She's doing some real work, in the real world

While we just have circle jerks here.