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Christian Science Monitor
by John Hughes

12/10/09

She’s smart. She speaks her mind. A lot of people love her and think she should be president. Sarah Palin? No, Hillary Rodham Clinton. Secretary of State Clinton, Washington’s No. 1 diplomatic salesperson, is fast becoming the foreign-policy hawk in a Democratic administration, while President Obama seems to be slow moving. Both believe in engagement with foreign adversaries, but Clinton believes in engaging from a position of strength. By contrast, Mr. Obama is now being faulted for engaging from a platform of weakness, if not appeasement. Clinton seems to be replicating as secretary of State the technique she employed when she became a senator...

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/1210/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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