Since her speech at the Council on Foreign Relations yesterday morning, Hillary, or her words, have been under many microscopes. Friends and readers have been sharing articles focusing on small parts of the speech.
1. She mentioned the debt! (Yes, her purview. It comes up when she is doing diplomacy with foreign leaders.)
2. She pissed off Mexico! (She told the truth. Some regions there are at risk with cartels taking on paramilitary forces.)
3. She foreshadowed trouble in Sudan! (Yup, well....)
There is more. I will not drive this car into anybody's ditch, if you catch my meaning.
On the other hand, several good buddies shared this lovely review, which I encourage everyone to read. Hillary's Home Run of a Speech by Tunku Varadaraja , The Daily Beast.
Bottom line, from the moment State announced the speech, we had to know that her paragraphs and video would be snipped and clipped, her sentences would be parsed, her lexicon analyzed. What impressed me most about this speech was its comprehensiveness, coherence, and consistency (my three pillars of a great Hillary speech). Taking this speech and even the ensuing Q & A apart does it an injustice. The beauty and message is in the whole, not in its parts, like a lovely mosaic.
That said, although out of the public eye today, she has been in focus through one or another lens, so I thought I would share this slideshow.
Sometimes we see her on a jumbotron, sometimes in a video or camera screen, sometimes it is a reflection, and in some cases she is merely interestingly framed. I have been collecting these for awhile. Here is Hillary through or in a glass brightly!
RESIST, INSIST, PERSIST, ENLIST.” - HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
