First a h/t to Jim Livesey at Team Hillary Clinton 's Facebook page for posting a link to this article and making me aware of it. Another h/t to the author of the article, Chris Weigant for explaining why the signing of START 2010 was not the story of the day Thursday, which left me puzzled. His take on this situation could also explain why even PBS did not mention last night the speech Hillary Clinton gave yesterday in Louisville explaining our nuclear posture, the rationale behind START, and some of the important features of the treaty. Having said all that, I want to thank Chris and Huffington Post for naming Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton
While President Obama certainly signed an impressive treaty this week, we feel we have to give credit where credit is due, instead. Which is why, this week, we are awarding the Most Impressive Democrat Of The Week award to none other than Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Because this treaty is not only a stunning achievement for the president, it is also an enormous accomplishment for Clinton, who now joins the ranks of our most effective Secretaries of State in modern times. Hillary Clinton's job description is to do this sort of thing, remember. And she produced a treaty for her boss to sign, showing she was indeed the right person chosen for this job. Clinton (and the State Department as a whole) produced an impressive accomplishment that her husband never even managed, when he was president.
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Wow! It does my heart good to see her get recognition in the media. One thing Hillary's loyalists know is that she always cares more aboutgetting the job done than about getting the credit. We accept that about her and love her for her selflessness. But it is nice to see her appreciated for that very humility and work ethic. TV cameras only showed her at a distance in the teensy bit of coverage they gave to the signing, but close up you could see the radiant happiness on her beautiful face, and yes she deserves Most Impressive, this week and every week!
I particularly like this parenthetical suggestion from Weigant at the end of his Hillary section.
[In keeping with her low profile, one assumes, the State Department has no public contact page for Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Congratulate her instead on the White House contact page, to let her know you appreciate her efforts.]
Actually, she does have a contact page. You can also use this one. I am leaving congratulations to her at both the State Department and the White House.
