Clinton heads for Hawaii!

Posted By P.J. Aroon Monday, January 11, 2010 - 4:48 PM Share

Secretary Clinton departed for her Pacific trip today. Her first stop is Hawaii, where she's supposed to meet the Japanese foreign minister to discuss the United States' controversial Futenma air base on Okinawa. She'll also give give a speech on Asia-Pacific multilateral engagement and meet with U.S. Pacific Command before heading off to Papua New Guinea for the next leg of her trip.

In the photo above, Clinton gets out of her vehicle this morning before boarding her plane at Andrews Air Force Base. As you can see, her hands are already stuffed with foreign-policy memos that she will diligently study during her flight so that when she lands she'll be fully informed with the latest information. As Tina Brown wrote on the Daily Beast last summer:

On her State Department plane, Hillary is always eager to throw off her well-groomed public look and sit up front with no makeup, wearing sweats and her bookworm glasses, as she crunches her way through a big fat file of foreign-policy memos."

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CAROLYN-RODHAM

7:06 PM ET

January 11, 2010

Word of advice...

Preeti - posts to this blog seem to have fallen off, and I think it is because of stories like the one above.

The picture is great (we Hillary fans always appreciate pictures since so few are provided elsewhere by the MSM), as are the first 11/2 paragraphs of your article. But of what relevance exactly are Tina Brown's typically catty remarks about SecretaryClinton? I suppose if they came from anyone EXCEPT Tina Brown, I might find the observations sort of cute, even arguably admiring of Hillary's down-to-earth, what-you-see-is-what-you-get nature. But considering the source, I doubt these remarks were intended to be complimentary, and like other journalists (does Tina Brown qualify as a journalist? Two can be catty...), she focuses on Hillary's appearance in a vaguely disrespectful way, rather than on her widely-respected command of the facts and strong work ethic.

 

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