Hillary Clinton
There’s something about planes, people working on them, getting things done. People getting things done on planes look like the sort of people you want to get things done for you.
Julia Gillard used to look like that back in 2010 when this photo was taken. She could use a bit of that juice right now. Just look what it’s done for Hillary Clinton.
A photo of Clinton, shades on, Blackberry in hand, about to take off for Tripoli, has not just become an internet sensation but injected a whole new energy into the commentary about her political prospects.
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Picture a woman. She might live anywhere in the world. She could be part of any socio-economic group, of any ethnicity, of any religion.
On a typical day this woman starts her day before the sun rises. She works for 8-12 hours in a store or on a farm or at a factory or in someone’s home for a small wage, but her children and elderly relatives depend on her income for survival.
When she comes home, she asks her children what they learned that day at school and what they want to be when they grow up. She spends hours bent over a small stove or fireplace preparing meals for an extended family. In many parts of the world, she also grows the food that feeds everyone at her table.
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Men Are Not Abusers says:
Strike a woman and you strike all of society. Strike a man and it’s business as usual. That’s the very definition of systemic gender violence: When it’s business as usual. The very fact that feminists can see systemic gendered violence as a problem women suffer–when they don’t–and a problem men… Read more »
So Kevin Rudd’s been musing about the Chinese and how we might need to be ready to “deploy force” if efforts to integrate the PRC into the rest of the world go horribly wrong.
We established long ago the former PM has a tendency to get a bit carried away in discussions with other world leaders. Remember how he allegedly got off the phone from George W Bush and regaled his dinner guests with the cracking yarn that the then-US president didn’t know what the G20 was.
Or how in Copenhagen he went off about how the Chinese were trying to “rat-f**k us”. And who can forget his nickname for the UN Secretary General Ban ki-Moon - “Spanky Banky”.
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Yosemite Sam says:
“We are a liability to the US by providing such pillow-soothing comfort. “ US entities have a lot of business assets and contracts in Australia. assets/liability = were worth it To think Australia nearly went to war with the US over guano deposits. Kevin should have been sent to public… Read more »
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Dave Moore says:
“...and what exactly he means by everything going wrong…” He means that China is a nuclear armed dictatorship that cares nothing for it’s own people nor the people of any other country. That we have to be prepared for armed conflict (again) is an OF COURSE. If you were as… Read more »
A funny thing happened in Melbourne yesterday morning. A very senior politician answered a whole lot of questions in complete sentences, with barely an acronym, and without the repetition of a handful of sound bites.
This politician - to the surprise of some of the people in the room - even expressed an opinion on some issues. An actual opinion.
This aberration on the political scene didn’t so much as raise an eyebrow among the people who had seen her up close before. For the rest of us, however, it was quite shocking.
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BobbyDan says:
Maybe we could get Hillary to run a coaching school for our pollies? Read more »
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Ethan says:
Tors, there is no doubt Clinton was impressive in the Q&A session with Leigh Sales, however this is the result of having no pressure to perform in front of your own electorate. One simply needs to look at Clinton’s performances during the 2008 Democratic Primaries for the Presidential elections, which… Read more »
It is 2009 and even Hillary Clinton has to remind people she thinks for herself.
Admittedly it was an African student who yesterday showed such stunning disrespect for the US Secretary of State, by asking her what her husband’s views were on Chinese contracts in the Congo.
I doubt very much anyone in the United States, or here, would dare be so brazen - to her face. But the rest of us put up with it all the time.
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G says:
This is a complete non issue and the question is not invalid. Bill Clinton was a very successful former president and is her husband, so of course she would discuss these types of issues with him. If it was a male secretary of state and his wife was the former… Read more »
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Razor says:
At least he didn’t ask her for dry-cleaning advice or whether she smokes cigars. Funny how Billary stayed with her man when he was unfaithful, yet in the article above about Sport Stars being louts the females who stay by their man are criticised. Read more »
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