Hillary Clinton: Love "Really What's Important In Life"

SEOUL, South Korea — Dashing through a kaleidoscopic tour of the far East in her first outing as U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Rodham Clinton is back in full campaign mode.

But instead of selling herself as a presidential candidate, Clinton is pitching the still-emerging foreign policy of her former rival, President Barack Obama.

While cautiously projecting Obama's careful diplomatic stances in her official meetings with diplomats and foreign leaders, Clinton has unleashed the ebullient public persona she showed in the final giddy stages of her unsuccessful 2008 campaign.

Clinton has appeared unabashedly delighted soaking up affectionate, sometimes gushing reactions that she evoked among foreign officials and onlookers.

Some of her appearances have mirrored the countless town halls of her campaign days. But instead of gymnasiums crowded with American voters, Clinton showed up at college auditoriums in Tokyo and South Korea, plying audiences with anecdotes and fielding questions on topics from motherhood to politics.

"Wow, I feel more like an advice columnist than a secretary of state today," she said to loud laughter when asked about the subject of love by one of several thousand students who gathered to hear her speak at Ewha Womans University in Seoul.

Asked how she knew that ex-president Bill was and is her one true love, Clinton responded: "How does anybody know about love? If you can describe it, you may not fully be experiencing it.

"My husband is my best friend," she added. "We have an endless conversation ... we never get bored.

"I just feel very fortunate ... that I have a relationship that's been so meaningful to me in my adult life."

Clinton urged the students to pursue love, saying "personal relationships are really what's important in life."

"We could be here for hours!" she said in response to the next questioner who asked Clinton to describe her relationship with her daughter Chelsea.

Comments

[OtayPanky]

I'll take GREAT POLITICAL THOUGHTS for $1000, Alex.

WWHHOOOAAA! It's the Daily Double!!!!

And the answer is: "Personal relationships are really what's important in life."

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What line does Bill Clinton use successfully on every woman he ever got into the sack?

[Dolmance]

I just learned Hillary declawed the recently deceased Socks the Cat.

Some things just cannot be forgiven. Declawing cats is one of them. She should resign.

[closetodemfection]

No one likes declawing - however, Socks was free to roam the White House. You think clawing historical furniture and rugs was an option? Somehow I don't think so.

[zamiel]

Why didn't Hillary talk about the relationship with the one she's truly in love with, Huma Abedin?

[MariaHopeful]

Well, I knew it, I knew it. This tour is all about Hillary & Bill Clinton. Talk the truth, as much as we distrusted Condoleeza Rice, her trips were about the Bush Foreign Policy. Now I am seeing headlines about, "Can Hillary Rule the World." This trip ought to be about the new Obama Foreign Policy. I for one am very resentful that this has been about the Clintons - as I suspected it would have been from the start. And this happening even while Uncle Bill is criticizing Obama for not being "hopeful enough." Every speech I have ever heard the President give, he has ALWAYS said that we can beat this thing. Indeed, Yes We Can is his motto.

[closetodemfection]

Get over it.

[partyofone]

Hillary says "we never get bored." Bill actions say something very different.

[RODERICK098]

Actually I am bored of your lies about the Clintons. If you ccannot speak the truth then do not say anything

[didntvote4him]

Bill never gets bored because he's never home.

[RODERICK098]

And I am bored of people that make comments about the Clintons' private life. Isn't that what its is called PRIVATE. Why cannot you focus on their excellent policies that help most US citizens rather then making some personal jibe that you cannot substantiate

[Ppossom]

What a PERFECT American story: Bill Clinton, the greatest lover in American history, is HOPELESSLY in love with Hillary Clinton, the MEANEST woman in the whole world.

Many thanks to GOPers for the glamor in this romance!

[Freesia2]

Well, the only two people who can really know a marriage are the two people living it. And while I may look on from the outside and see what to me are unhappy or even unhealthy aspects - I'm not the one shaping my life around it. I'd have sent Bill packing - but then Hillary might look at my (wonderful)husband and wonder why on earth his clothes are hanging in my closet instead of out on the lawn in a burning pile along with the marriage license. Love's weird.

Either way, they've made a life. It worked for them. I wish they would have kept it more private. :-)

Anyway, one thing that seems for sure, for real - she adores her daughter. And Chelsea adores her right back. Whenever they're shown together it's almost palpable through the screen. There's a very deep understanding between the two women and it's to be admired. She has her daughter's love and respect. No question.

[partyofone]

If Hillary had left Bill after Monicagate, she would not have been Mrs. Bill Clinton, a Senator, presidential candidate or Secretary of State. Now that's true, selfless love.

[TruthNreconciliation]

either way she could not lose - if she had left him, she would have tapped into the immense sympathy she had as the wronged woman. by staying, she raised questions about her own power-hungry nature. she could have separated herself from the whole sordid story and i think she would have had more support in 2008. still - glad she didn't =)

[closetodemfection]

Do you realize how sexist you sound? Yah, without Bill, HRC would have just gone off into the sunset baking cookies and knitting scarves. You've got to be kidding me.

[SharonB]

I know you are getting negative comments, but the truth is, your post is the truth.

The secret to happiness in the Clinton household: POWER.

[Pulemerci]

If their marriage were any more about convenience, they would have a slurpy machine and Slim Jims at the foot of their bed.

[didntvote4him]

You want to see some photos?

[johnfv]

Hey! Where is the reporting that Obama has drastically widened the BOMBING in Afganistan?

News Flash:

Obama is killing more people in Pakistan than BUSH, bombing targets now not directly involved in Afgan fighting. These are terrorist threatening overthrow of Pakistan.

Is this going to be another IRAQ? Once the war widens, China, Iran, etc.. will start supplying the other side...again.

Let me get this straight: Obama is killing more people than Bush did in the Afgan war, but he is promising to treat captured combatants better.

Well, that will make terrorists and muslims feel much better about the US!

[partyofone]

One month into a presidency is not sufficient time to change 8 years of misdeeds and corruption. He is a leader faced with more challenges than any president since FDR. President Obama is doing well.

[RODERICK098]

What corruption all lies are you Rush or Oreilly

[didntvote4him]

Screw FDR. The war saved his buttocks.

[partyofone]

Mrs. Bill Clinton the hypocrite.

"In Bill Clinton I have found the perfect business partner. We share an amazingly similar lack of values, greed, self-centeredness. I have ridden on his back to professional heights few underqualified women could ever dream of. And we have managed to peddle influence to become mega millionaires and to infultrate the naive Obama admininstration dispite enormous conflicts of interest. It is true love."

[stell]

Of course she's hypocritical. Next we will hear her talking about the same human rights abuses in Sudan, Zimbabwe, the Congo, and Burma that she all but excused in China.

[partyofone]

Did the Chinese thank her for all the nuclear missle technology Bill's administration sold them, and for the lax safety standards for their inferior exported products that has made her pals at WalMart billionaires?

[Ppossom]

Could you provide the source for this quotation?

[partyofone]

my vivid imagination, like any script writer. Hillary would never say it out loud, that would be honest. :)

[Yman]

"Source"?

Not enough Clozapine.

[wakupmagy]

It's satire. And it's clever.

[jeanno]

Wow.
I'm going to just take a moment here,
To compliment those who posted on this -
I don't know when I've read
a string of comments like these.
Really sincere, meaningful and mature.

Thanks guys.

[TruthNreconciliation]

blinded. google 'tusla airport hilary' for a nice vignette about the hilary foreign policy style

[Areyoume2]

I love Hillary too. I wanted her as Prez and became a one-woman suffragette on her behalf. But when it was done - that day in June, I was able to rationalize and re-direct my efforts. There were many reasons I was able to go with the Obama-flow and I'm glad I did. But one reason in particular had more to do with Bill than Hill. I kindof figured the Repubs would destroy her as Prez with the constant Bill-bashing. And truly..I thought Bill would give them lots of grist for their mill. Now that I see the Repubs have become energized with their NO-nosity .. I am all the more convinced that things in our Administration are as they should be. He's got our brightest lights shining, as well as his own.

I also loved to hear Hillary speak so well of her relationship. It's only the shallow and base who see love and life as so cut and dry. Real people with honest lives know that it's a challenge to remain long term with one love partner. It's why infidelity was written into the commandments. The fact that the Clinton's came out still standing is more likely due to their ages than to anything else. P.S.There's a reason some people don't recognize Hill's intelligence. It's because of their own.

[partyofone]

Sorry, but I must say, I found your post to be hilarious.

[RODERICK098]

I guess you did not understand the last wto lines of the post becaus ethey describe you to a tee.

[TruthNreconciliation]

yeah ok, hillary is intelligent and did have a lot of support, and good on you for doing the right thing and re-directing your efforts. but don't you think it was irresponsible of her to even run, when the ghost of bill clinton was always going to risk making the democrats lose to the republicans? we could have ended up with mccain and palin because of hillary. an objective study of her policies and her record reveals that a hillary administration would not have been sufficiently different to a republican one anyway. i thank God every day for the ability, character and service of Barack Obama. amen to that.

[BushBites]

I like Hillary.

Her husband I can take in very small doses.

[Brillig]

I wish with all my heart, I could find someone in the Republican army that actually accomplished something other than burning down an abortion clinic.

[partyofone]

What? Bush destroyed the economy, started two wars, and damaged the Contitution and international law perhaps beyond repair. Doesn't that count?

[TruthNreconciliation]

calm down, little one. technically he only started the iraq war. the war in afghanistion is about al qaeda, who declared war on the us 20 years ago. the roots of that conflict are in fact in 19th century british-controlled northern india, but that's another story. as far as our country is concerned, you need to look at the early years of the reagan administration for the source... and those actions were influenced by the neoconservative takeover of the replublican party in the 1960s.

bush did shred the constitution, and his executive actions with regard to abortion, contraception, sex education and other wedge issues can be overturned (many were on 20 january). don't worry about international law - fortunately it's not just the US that influences that. the community of nations has gladly welcomed us back into the fold with the hope that we will restore law and order in our foreign policy. we need to set about making it harder for someone like bush in the future to do what he did.

[stevefromkelso]

How about the repub majority in the house and senate from 94 on that gave Bill C credit for a robust economy?

[Peter007]

She has reached the level of a National Enquirer celebrity.
She and Oprah together.
A subject of constant speculation and interest.
She has clawed her way to the top.
How?
She gave a commodity speculator $1,000 and he turned it into $100,000 in 6 months then she never traded again.
She flunked her DC bar exam. Yet people say she's smart.
She ran for NY Senator and told everyone that she wasn't using it as a stepping stone for a presidential run.
She advocated lowering the gasoline tax during the campaign. That would have increased consumption of foreign oil, increased air pollution, give a windfall profit to oil companies, and depleted the fund used to build roads and bridges.
Supported Bush lock and step with his foreign policy.

[Brillig]

What exams did you pass?

If you are liberal and this is all the liberal blogs can offer, it's not good enough.

If you are conservative, how about getting some of that Jesus coursing through your veins and stop being snarky and lying?

[partyofone]

Why do Hillary supporters ALWAYS attack the person posting rather than address the very legitimate substance of the post whenever Hillary is criticized for anything?

[Yman]

His prostate exam, .....

....... and even that was by the skin of his teeth.

[Yman]

Not smart because she failed a bar exam? Seriously?

First ever student commencement speaker at Wellesley. Can you even SPELL Yale Law School? - Board of Editors of the Yale Law Review. Partner of a major firm.

BTW - "Supported Bush lock and step"? Her voting record was virtually identical to 0bama's.