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I don't know if that's a reasonable request to make of Senator Clinton, but it may well be a conclusion she came to on her own.

On the whole, I think she could eventually be a good, even great SecState, based just on her qualities of character. She does have some baggage coming out of the starting gates, though nothing that cannot be overcome.

As a matter of personal style, her stridency makes her the wrong face to put on US public diplomacy. That's absolutely the wrong way the US needs to go on public diplomacy in the near future.

"It Can't Be Just About Us"
--Frank Schnittger, ETian Extraordinaire

by papicek (papi_cek_at_hotmail_dot_com) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 10:43:23 AM EST
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the key thing is that they have mutual confidence in each other and aren't pulling in opposite directions -  see http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/19/opinion/19friedman.html?ref=opinion

notes from no w here
by Frank Schnittger (mail Frankschnittger at hot dotty communists) on Wed Nov 19th, 2008 at 03:25:44 PM EST
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