Hillary Clinton
February 17, 2009
- Last night, the Senate passed the modified version of the Baselines bill. This version, our sources say, is the one "approved" by the Chinese government. Essentially, the bill conveniently excluded the seas and oceans between the Kalayaan Islands and Scarborough shoals under our regime of islands, which, effectively means that we don't own those prime properties. This is the official ...
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January 27, 2009
- Sorry, next week we'll hopefully get back to talking about things like what to do if an agent asks for an exclusive or how to deal with editorial input, but for now I'm still in political mode, so here we go.Mika B. over on Morning Joe hates Hillary so much that during the long Democratic nomination process any time someone said something positive about Hillary, Mika's lip would curdle. That's ...
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December 23, 2008
- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, Barack Obama's former bitter rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, is his nominee for secretary of state. President-elect Obama and Mrs. Clinton fought perhaps the most polarizing nomination battle in decades, but in recruiting her for his cabinet, Mr. Obama has chosen to turn a rival into a partner. Image Credit: Chris Keane/Reuters Obama’s World?, ...
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December 11, 2008
- There is growing criticism among some in the Latino community who feel president-elect Obama has not appointed enough Hispanics to cabinet positions. The complaints began with the choice of Hillary Clinton over Bill Richardson for Secretary of State. New Mexico's Governor Richardson, whose mother is of Mexican descent, has considerable foreign policy experience, having served as U.N. Ambassador ...
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December 9, 2008
- BEIJING, China...Dec. 9...a top-secret report prepared for China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) predicts that none of President-elect Obama's appointees will be in office at the end of his first term. They are all qiao zong huo fan," the anonymous author says, using the Chinese term for bridge burners. "They will depart, leaving flames in their wake." The report, which was ...
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November 22, 2008
- As reported in the Washington Post (http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/19/hillary_clintons_fix.html), if President-Elect Obama offers the position of Secretary of State to Senator Clinton, and if she accepts, they will run up against the Emoluments clause of the constitution, which says: "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be ...
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November 19, 2008
- Six members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team for government operations worked in the Clinton administration, and one of them runs a consulting firm that has listed Freddie Mac as a client. Image Credit: AP Obama’s Empty Suit Filled With Clinton Brain TrustWhat happens when a junior Senator from Illinois campaigns on the themes of Hope and Change, with the thinnest of ...
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November 17, 2008
- Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
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November 7, 2008
- In January, the U.S. will cross a barrier that many felt would never be breached—in our lifetimes at least. We will inaugurate an African-American president. Yet, this morning I remembered a prediction made back in the sixties. The feminists of that day claimed the U.S. would elect a black male as president before a woman of any color. That prediction has come true. But just barely. In 2008, ...
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October 19, 2008
- In one of those odd twist of fate things for which nothing quite prepares you, I discovered today I have something in common with Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, Isabelle Allende, Amy Tan, Annie Lamott, Al and Tipper Gore and a lot of other literary luminaries: Monogrammed stationery, courtesy of Book Passage.Who knew?Today was our book reading for "Knowing Pains: Women on Love, Sex and ...
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