Posted on 07/16/2009 2:58:37 PM PDT by Corky Boyd
Today’s NY Times carries a story on Hillary’s efforts to regain her stature as Secretary of State after she failed to accompany Obama on his trip to Russia, and talk she was being elbowed aside by the White House. The Times puff piece follows an earlier story in the same vein from AFP via Breitbart. Island Turtle covered the changing relationship between the two in an article last week entitled: Is Secretary of State Clinton on the way out?
The Times story describes her speech yesterday to the Council on Foreign Relations as a muscular approach, especially on Iran, and more reflective of her position when she was campaigning against Obama for the Democratic nomination. The story also reveals some of the friction between her and the White House:
"In recent weeks, the administration’s top Iran policy maker was reassigned from the State Department to the White House’s National Security Council; Mrs. Clinton’s candidate to lead the United States Agency for International Development has been tangled up in a vetting process; and she has failed to get her choices into some plum ambassadorships, notably Japan, which went to a fund-raiser....
(Excerpt) Read more at islandturtle.blogspot.com ...
After that ‘throw’ before the all-star game, I would characterize this as a chick-fight, or cat-fight.
“Blue on blue” traditionally refers to friendly fire against another pro-Western individual or unit. Since this is obama and Hillary, I’d describe it as “orange on orange”.
I agree. therte isw no way Her Heinous is blueish!
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