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Jewish World Review
May 10, 2012/ 18 Iyar, 5772
Save those 'Hillary!' buttons
By
Dale McFeatters
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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has returned from a high-profile trip to China and India, having successfully and diplomatically navigated a minefield of tricky issues.
Among them, she reached a tentative deal with the Chinese to allow a blind activist, who was under house arrest until he fled to the U.S. Embassy, to come to the United States with his family to study, temporarily solving a difficult human-rights issue between the two countries.
In India, she kept the pressure on the government not to buy Iranian oil (or, at least, not buy so much of it), which energy-short India desperately needs and the Iranians desperately need to sell -- desperate enough to accept partial payment in rupees, a nonconvertible currency.
But that was not the big news. Her appearance was.
She appeared at a press conference "au naturale," as one blog put it, meaning no makeup except lipstick, wearing dark-framed glasses and having unstyled hair. Not being familiar with salon terms, it looked as if it was just hanging down to her shoulders naturally.
She actually looked pretty good, good enough that, a quick check shows ABC, The Washington Post, Politico, CNN and the Drudge Report -- never a particular fan of the Clintons -- all commented favorably on her appearance. However, one Post columnist went a little overboard in describing her as "looking like a schoolgirl."
The media obsessed over her appearance -- short hair and pantsuits -- in three presidential campaigns, her husband's and her own, and her Senate campaign, not always favorably.
Clinton has said she'll serve just one term as secretary of state, and as hard as she worked, no one would blame her if she left at the end of the year. But no one paid this much attention to Condi Rice in her lame-duck time at State.
That's because Clinton is sometimes mentioned as a possible replacement for the verbally incautious Joe Biden as vice president. This is unlikely, because the shift -- speculation has Biden going to State -- would cause more problems than it would solve.
That leaves another presidential run in 2016. Clinton says no: "I have been active in high-level politics for 20 years. It's time for me to get off the high wire."
But what else is she going to say? She can't announce a run for the White House while serving the president already in it. But if Barack Obama should lose this fall, or even if he wins, the search will be on for a big-name Democrat with a proven track record. And age -- she's now 64 -- is not the factor it was.
In the White House, she came across as an intense, secretive policy wonk. But out of the White House, she seems to have loosened up considerably.
On a trip to Estonia, she traded vodka shots with GOP Sen. John McCain of Arizona. During her presidential campaign, she would have shots of Crown Royal with a beer chaser. At this spring's Summit of the Americas in Colombia, she cut loose, drinking beer at a dance club.
One of the likability tests of a potential presidential candidate is: Would you like to have a beer with this person? As for Hillary Clinton, a lot of people would, and, it seems, a lot of people have.
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• 04/10/12 Bizarre process to choose a veep
• 04/09/12 From remote exurbs, cities don't look so bad anymore
• 04/06/12 We do want the fake Romney, not the 'real' one
• 04/05/12 Heaping even more indignities on air travelers
• 03/29/12 Blown away in Washington, D.C.
• 03/28/12 At the nuke summit an inadvertent moment of candor
• 03/27/12 A worse unemployment problem
• 03/23/12 The federal budget: A game of make-believe
• 03/21/12 In Iraq, blame the U.S., but drive American
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• 02/27/12 Every candidate has to have a tax-reform plan
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• 02/15/12 Putin has found can't lose campaign issue: Promoting a randier Russia
• 02/14/12 Obama's budget lays down battle lines for the fall
• 02/10/12 Filming in D.C. creates hassle for Hollywood
• 02/08/12 At Lake Vostok, Russia taps into new realm
• 02/07/12 'Granny dumping' in prisons
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• 01/02/12 Pragmatic look at top words
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• 12/21/12 Speculation and wishful thinking can get scary
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• 12/15/11 The U.S. government is cashing in its chips, literally
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