Hillary: The Face of America?

I’m no fan of Maddy Albright’s, but I think she’s got every right to wonder how Hillary Clinton has the bald audacity – some might call it the unmitigated gall – to suggest that during her husband’s presidency – she, Mrs. Clinton – was “face of the Administration on foreign affairs,”

Mrs. Clinton didn’t actually say that, not at first; one of her operatives, former Governor Tom Vilsack introduced the notion, apparently as a means to shore up Mrs. Clinton’s assertion that being married to a president automatically confers presidential experience and acumen upon a spouse. Hillary must have liked Vilsack’s thinking, though, because she agreed with it, saying (incomprehensibly):

“There are lots of ways in which what I did that was the face of America when I was there when I was representing not just my husband but the country.”

No, I didn’t get that wrong. According to ABC, that really is what she said. Speaks like a 14 year old when she’s off script, doesn’t she?

Anyhow, Bill Richardson takes some exception to the notion of Mrs. Clinton being the overseas face of the administration. His spokesperson says:

“Considering Bill Richardson served as the US Ambassador to the United Nations, Secretary of Energy, as well as a Special Foreign Envoy during the Clinton Administration on numerous occasions, we take some exception to that view.”

As well Richardson should. No word, yet, on how Albright has received the news that she – the first female Sec of State, the chaser of Yassir Arafat and dancing partner of Kim Jong Il – was not, in fact, “the face of the Administration on foreign affairs.”

Since Ms. Albright’s past loyalty to the Clintons has rivaled only Sid Blumenthal’s, it’s doubtful that she will raise an objection to Mrs. Clinton’s breathtaking assertions. Albright may have felt pride in being the first female Secretary of State, but if that fact gets in the way of Mrs. Clinton’s ambition, then so much for sisterhood, or for celebrating women. Albright becomes a footnote, and Hillary looms ever larger as the face, breast, heart, soul, feet, voice, brains and brawn of the Clinton Administration, an administration which talked a good game but, near as I can tell, never actually did much about education, social security, illegal immigration, infrastructure, or, for that matter, terrorist attacks on American holdings, interests or naval vessels, and which remains curiously mum about one of its indisputable success stories.

Ah, well…if Albright just smiles and goes along, maybe someday she’ll be let back into the White House, to dance a jig with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, or a polka with Putin. Likely she’ll dance to whatever tune the Clinton’s call.

Althouse has more. And Vanderleun says, if Hillary can be president, why can’t Laura?

Gateway Pundit looks at the many views of Bill Clinton.