The beautiful Secretary of State, visits, and is regaled by the King who lavishes attention upon her, and then when her magic carriage turns to a pumpkin, the knight in shining armor swoops in and flies her home on his silver, flying horse.
She is Cinderella again! After losing her slipper on the steps of the Elysee Palace, now this! Pretty, and smart as she is, if she had lived once-upon-a-time, Hillary Clinton would have been a fairy tale princess. But she lives in a 21st century fairy tale, so she is Secretary of State.
(For the record, I am glad she is living now, when I am!)
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Even when you have your own plane, sometimes you get stuck in the airport.
That's what happened to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday, when mechanical trouble grounded her and her traveling party in Saudi Arabia.
Fortunately, if you are the top U.S. diplomat, you can hitch a pretty sweet ride. Gen. David Petraeus happened to be in the neighborhood, and he's stopping to pick her up. Petraeus was in the Saudi capital of Riyadh. Clinton was a couple hours away in Jeddah.
Clinton told reporters that the government jet she uses has developed a fuel valve problem and could not be repaired quickly. She is leaving most of her traveling party behind.
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