Clinton: I’m secretary of state, not Bill - ‘I am not going to be channeling my husband,’

[BridgeTheGap]

KINSHASA, Congo - Hillary Clinton has a message for the world: It's not all about Bill.

The secretary of state bristled Monday when — as she heard it — a Congolese university student asked what her husband thought about an international financial matter.

She hadn't traveled to Africa to talk about her husband the ex-president. But even there, she couldn't escape his outsized shadow. She abruptly reclaimed the stage for herself.

"My husband is not secretary of state, I am," she snapped. "I am not going to be channeling my husband."
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The president's ambitious travels have overshadowed her, heavyweight special envoys have been assigned to the world's critical hotspots, Vice President Joe Biden has taken on assignments abroad — and then last week her husband succeeded in a North Korean mission to free two journalists even as she landed in Africa on a seven-nation trip.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32361939/ns/politics-more_politics/?gt1=43001

[stray cat]

1. Mistranslation - the person asked what Obama thought -

I can see why Hillary snapped back her answer - I don't think it was well done but I sure understand it.

[janedum]

2. The idiot Interpreter owes Mrs. Clinton an apology! nt

[ejpoeta]

3. what's funny is, if she were a man with a famous wife or high profile wife...

these would not be considerations. there would be none of this, is she jealous of her husband.... blah blah blah. as far as women have come, it just sometimes seems that we haven't really come that far.

[BridgeTheGap]

5. You're right. But I think she should have used another term instead of "channeling."

Isn't that reserved for disincarnate entities (i.e. the dead)?

[excess_3]

4. I predict a rise in kdnappings

If xyz country holds kidnap victims.............
oops, I meant to say lawfully convicted journalists,
former President Bill Clinton visits.

if not,
you get Hillary.

take your pick