Hillary Clinton Plans To Raise Profile With Major Speech

Foreign Policy's The Cable:

After missing two overseas trips due to surgery to repair a broken elbow, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton plans to deliver a major foreign-policy speech at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington next week before departing for India and the ASEAN conference in Thailand on Friday, July 17, aides say.

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[ibsteve2u]

As long as she remembers that the well-being of the nation overrides all else...

And that the nation IS the American People...

And that the voice of Wall Street is not the voice of the American People.

[fefo70]

God I hope she talks about healthcare even though it's not her realm. "Hey guys, I just traveled around the world and everyone has better healthcare for less money and is laughing at you."

[white mende man]

majority of americans know that congress knows that but the insurance companies prefer money to fairness, congress is bought so they weaver, they keep looking down on the people that cast votes to keep them in power.

[LemonMeringue]

I wish, but she has been well paid not to rock the boat for the health insurance industry.

[Alvarofms]

I would PAY to watch a debate in foreign affairs between Secretary of State Clinton and Sarah Pailin....­..you must admit that it would be so much fun!!!

[RichardEC]

It would be a slaughter. Palin has a hard time just sticking to english.

[ekoorb]

Let Palin pick the topic, make Hillary down a shot, and it still wouldn't be fair to her.

[maigesheng]

Haha

[FinallySaid]

When Hillary gets to India will she visit all of the contractors that she and Bill made millions on by handing American jobs over to them?

[white mende man]

that train left the station a long time ago maybe you might be able to catch it in about 7 1/2 years next time around. Bye, bye.

[FinallySaid]

Sorry I'm not going anywhere, and neither are thousands workers that Hillary and Bill sold down he river to make their millions on NAFTA and outsourcing deals. The millions of lives that were damaged by the Clintons far outweigh the exaggerated 18 million that supposedly voted for Hillary. Clinton apologists will never be allowed to gloss over the damage they did to America.

[2tango]

She can talk her head off, but still won't be able to delivery.

Thanks to the "Clintonia­ns-Lobbyis­t" we having the banks stalling the economy, SUMMERS SHOULD BE FIRED.

And regarding the Clintons-I­llussionis­t, please people I hope you take her and get lost!!

[white mende man]

Yeh right it was never the b/o/z/o/ that served (himself) between 2000-2008 it's always someone else in the GOP book of illusions/­lies/decit­/manipulat­ions

[ekoorb]

Report the facts: she is giving a speech. She can't raise her profile: she is the senior-ranking cabinet official and the fourth person in the line of succession for POTUS.

[Callyson]

She may be the senior-ranking cabinet official and the fourth person in the line of succession for POTUS, but that alone is no guarantee of influence over policy. Just ask former Secretaries of State Colin Powell or William Rogers (the latter served in the Nixon adminstration, hidden by Kissinger's shadow.)

[ekoorb]

Agreed. But IMHO the headline misrepresents her MO and engenders controversy.

[SeeJaneRunning]

Hillary who? She's been "special envoyed" out of a job. Barack is making a tactical error here. He forgets the adage that you keep your friends close and your enemies even closer.

[We-Are-The-Ones]

You are wrong. The President is emphasizing diplomacy more so than Bush did and it feels unfamiliar to you. All still report to the Secretary of State.

[nolocontendre]

By that you mean to imply Hillary is an enemy? Luckily politicians generally understand that the game ends when the election or primary does...

Hillary is nothing if not a consummate politician­...she knows her own political future is tied to Obama's...­I expect her to be somewhere between a competent and great Sec of State...ev­ents will likely decide.

[RJGEvans]

1. Clinton is not the enemy. Obama has made that clear, the Democratic Party has made that clear and the country has made that clear, given her approval ratings.

2. The special envoy's were Clinton's idea. Even Obama says so. It was Clinton's plan for State during the campaign.

[nolocontendre]

Mitchell and Holbrooke are certainly Clinton people...h­ard to believe Hillary didn't select them...or at least suggest them and have her suggestion adopted...

...seems some wantto see a rift where it doesn't exist, or hasn't exhibited itself publicly.

[LemonMeringue]

I am glad we are going to hear from a woman who has earned her position by being competent and intelligent and working hard for many years.

Women have been set back 100 years by you know who. And the rest of us have to work twice as hard to prove not all women behave like that in the work place.

[RichardEC]

Sarah Palin? I dunno who?

[DelawareVol]

Or maybe she got where she was because she was the President's wife....

[ESerafina42]

Actually, if she hadn't had Bill to give up the spotlight to for all those years, she would have gotten further.

[white mende man]

Where/who was Palin before McCain's blunder?

[barackobama4prez]

Agreed.

[Callyson]

I for one am not going to accept the logic that because of one air-headed female (and I presume you mean Palin) that all women are set back 100 years. I think that sensible, fair-minded men and women see Palin as an idiot due to her individual characteristics, not her gender. Those who are prejudiced against women, on the other hand, may have had their backward views reinforced by Palin but were likely to cling to their outmoded chauvinisms with or without Palin.
But yes, it is good to hear from a competent, intelligent woman. I hope Clinton's speech gets 1/10th the attention that Palin is getting...­at least in HP...pleas­e?

[myvoice09]

Sounds like she may be gearing up to challenge obama for the nomination in 2012. Based on his performance so far, she has a good chance. There are lots of people out there who thought she should have been the nominee in 2008.

[AuntiepoppyCock]

And there are also a lot of people who thought she shouldn't be nominated in 09. Hint: President Barack Obama. I see the stage play being set...I can't wait, politics.

[Tropiholic]

ahh the few poomas must weigh in periodically

[LemonMeringue]

That would be rich, wouldn't it? After he named her Secretary of State?

Hillary is not that low-life.

[Fabienne]

Glad I don't know any.

[dandypuddin]

It's about time. i was wondering when Obama was going to share the international spotlight with her.

[We-Are-The-Ones]

There is enough to go around and she hurt fractured her elbow. Besides given the damage Dubya left, sometimes only the President will do.

[Taz2]

Good for Her! I sure hope President Obama selects her as "Vice President next time around, I've had enough of Biden's Gaffes!!

[DelawareVol]

LOL!!! More like it will be Hill vs. BO for the 2012 nomination­... You can bet Hillary hopes Barry's poll numbers continue to drop like they have been so it gives her the cover to run against him in 2012!!! BTW, I thought Plugs gave this administration "gravitas"??? LMAO!!!

[Fabienne]

Who's Barry?

[PrincipiaChamp]

Vice President Biden is doing a wonderful job as VP and will continue to do so...any gaffe hurts no one, is hyped by media peeing on themselves. Joe's brilliance in foreign policy and other areas is what shines brightest.

[Bigunsmom]

Hillary would have been the better choice.

[Fabienne]

Please state all the reasons why Hillary would have been the better choice. Address all past decisions. Address the differences between her and Obama's policies and her and Obama's temperament. Address the fact that she ran a poor, financiall­y-insolven­t campaign and lost the nomination even though she was the "inevitable" nominee. Explain why this means she would have been a better candidate. Address her (self-styled) co-Presidency with Bill and explain how their support for DADT, NAFTA, welfare "reform", deregulation, sanctions in Iraq that killed tens of thousands, etc., proves she would have made a better choice. Be specific or we might think you do not know what you are talking about.

[nolocontendre]

...except she wasn't the choice...m­ight be a good time to reflect on the difference between Obama/Biden and McCain/Pal­in...whate­ver your views on Hillary, we got off lucky...

[maigesheng]

Your right. Hillaray would have made a very nice conservative republican president.

[randman2009]

Hows the consolation prize treating you Hill??

You know it burns her up every time she says the words, "President Obama."

[LemonMeringue]

Maybe she is not like that.

[RichardEC]

Maybe it burns you up, but I think she's too mature and tempered for that. She's one tough cookie.

[We-Are-The-Ones]

It burns you up, clearly. You must hate saying President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

[ekoorb]

Yes, she worked however asked to help elect President Obama just to make herself miserable.

[maigesheng]

I really doubt it

[macintoshsauce]

She should have been elected President.

[We-Are-The-Ones]

She wasn't. She lost the primary to the better person, Barak Obama.

[bluestaterepub]

You cant even spell his name right. What a joke.