On July 14, the State Department released a travel schedule that I posted here along with some positive commentary regarding the sanity of that schedule involving just a five day work week, Well so much for that! Both CNN and Huffington Post have her traveling today for a meeting that takes place on Tuesday. The State Department has not altered the schedule it posted and nobody has tweeted anything about this alteration.
I understand the need for security around these travels plans. I do not understand why release any information at all if it is not accurate. Here I thought she would have a weekend at home before traveling, and that is not the case. If you wonder why this bothers me so much, look no further than the (empty) White House. The President takes his third vacation since the oil crisis began, does NOT bother to take it where he tells the American people to take theirs (the Gulf Coast), and meanwhile the Secretary of State leaves on yet another marathon trip on a weekend.
When was the last time the Secretary of State took a vacation? Well, she did have some off-time over the Christmas break, everybody did, but her last vacation was in August 2009. She was briefly in Bermuda when the UK released Al Megrahi which was, of course the subject of her early morning phone call to UK Foreign Minister Hague yesterday.
This woman works so hard, so cheerfully, and effectively, she just blows me away. You have just got to love her!
