Clinton: 'I broke my elbow, not my larynx.'

Fri, 07/17/2009 - 11:35am

Hillary Clinton, Patricia Espinosa, Lawrence Cannon, July 16, 2009 | Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

When asked yesterday about allegedly being sidelined by the White House, Secretary Clinton put the issue to rest, responding wittily:

"I broke my elbow, not my larynx," she said, referring to the fractured elbow that kept her out of the limelight for a month.

Speaking with reporters at the State Department after meetings with the foreign ministers of Canada and Mexico [in above photo], Clinton delivered the line with a straight face, seeming miffed at widespread speculation that she has lost influence in the Obama administration.

"I have been consistantly involved in the shaping and implementation of our foreign policy and I am off to India and Thailand tonight," Clinton said stonily.

For more about this issue, check out The Cable for the details from Laura Rozen's exclusive talk with Secretary Clinton herself.

Photo: Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images

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Preeti, you were very lucky

by stacyx on Fri, 07/17/2009 - 12:12pm

Preeti, you were very lucky to be able to be there listening to the speech in person!

Laura Rozen rocks! She doesn't engage in needless speculation about Hillary being marginalized and instead, she follows the facts and gets the information directly from the source- Hillary herself. If only CNN, Fox, Tina Brown, etc. would do the same!

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I wish someone in the White

by Carolyn-Rodham on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 5:46pm

I wish someone in the White House would comment more directly on all this silly speculation, however.

Hillary's Spartan Rhetoric a Winner: no baritone teleprompter!

by sakel on Sat, 07/18/2009 - 9:04pm

I listened with amazement and a new appreciation for what I call Hillary's 'spartan flourishes' during Clinton's (mis)underestimated foreign relations speech in which she managed to convey in one short 4-sentence paragraph what would have taken at least a dozen presidential baritone speeches and a dedicated teleprompter to get the same point across--much less succinctly!

SoS has a gift for this 'spartan rhetoric' and her commitment to human rights was evident while she managed to include in her speech an appeal to assist what comprises, shamefully, the world's majority of 'underfed, unhealthy and uneducated'--girls and women!

No wonder in Mumbai she was truly mobbed by the same women whom she visited back in l995 at the Indian SEWA (self-employed women) association. Wherever she goes she is met by people who cannot easily forget her concern and compassion. While presidential baritone appeal undeniably oozes with "words, more words and media-hogging", her appeal prefers to rely on "hard work, true compassion and understated eloquence" instead.

And since I much prefer action and gravitas to fluff and narcissism, I appreciate Laura Rozen's interview with Hillary and look forward to reading further SoS news in these pages....