According to The New York Times, there exists a "perception that the State Department has lost influence to an assertive White House."
According to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, via an AP headline referencing a famous Mark Twain quote, reports of her demise are premature.
From the Times article published Thursday morning:
In recent weeks, the administration’s top Iran policy maker was reassigned from the State Department to the White House’s National Security Council; Mrs. Clinton’s candidate to lead the United States Agency for International Development has been tangled up in a vetting process; and she has failed to get her choices into some plum ambassadorships, notably Japan, which went to a fund-raiser for President Obama.
Also, the White House recently scuttled Mrs. Clinton’s effort to bring Sidney Blumenthal, a journalist and confidant of both her and former President Bill Clinton, into the State Department.
The injury to Mrs. Clinton’s elbow — she fractured it in a fall last month, and it is being held together with pins and wire — has compounded the challenge. Her recuperation from surgery sharply curtailed her schedule, forcing her to cancel two overseas trips, including one to Russia with Mr. Obama.
Though she departs Thursday for India and Thailand, she is in constant pain and faces grueling physical therapy five times a day, according to people close to her. Among the exercises: repetitively squeezing a gelatinous ball.
Still, her aides and people at the White House dismiss suggestions that Mrs. Clinton has been shunted to the sidelines. Her relationship with Mr. Obama is strong, they say, and she remains an influential voice in all key debates.
The AP notes that Clinton said today that "she is comfortable in her position as President Barack Obama's top diplomat and has been consistently involved in foreign policy decisions despite a fractured elbow that kept her out of the limelight for a month."
"'I broke my elbow, not my larynx,' she told reporters Thursday, brushing aside speculation about a loss of influence within the administration," the AP story adds.
MR Obama , you have a really goood one here on your side , please keep her happy
'I broke my elbow, not my larynx,' - Hahaha!
She most definitely has not lost her ability to lie, to support fascism and to work behind the scenes. The Honduras coup may be off the radar as far as corporate media swine are concerned, but the facts are still being reported elsewhere.....
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14390
The smooth talking snake Obama continues on with the Bush doctrine of war lies and CIA dirty tricks in support of American corporate interests.
Even 'liberal' media like raw are taking a pass on this story.
What a shame!
More fibs from the Clingon empire.....
She should have, broken her lying larynx.
I think she has pins and wires in her arse as I know she can't tell the difference.
God knows what she would have done in Russia, Oba got her out of the way giving him a little more elbow room, I'm sure!!
Obama is anti-Blumenthall and I think this is where there could be a little friction occuring.
Re the photo in the heading:
"Mrs Clinton given the elbow for disclosing the size of Obamas dick at press conference".
Carrots, sticks, & coercive diplomacy.
OMG, you people have the intellection of a fucking NAT.
here's the deal people, the demise remark was a self effacing joke with respects to her spill, her fractured elbow, etc.
and now it somehow, tangentially and unrealistically I might add, means something else entirely?
you people (readers) and raw story are so fucking stupid, it's sad.
no offense to sex workers, but isn't hillary clinstoned an pathetic, sabre rattling, war mongering whore for Israel?
she sure is a pathetic ZOG prostitute is she not?
no offense to sex workers, but isn't hillary clinstoned an pathetic, sabre rattling, war mongering whore for Israel?
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YES. And she's a Bush-accomplice War Criminal also. That's the type of trash savior Obama chose to have around him while he spewed "hope" and "change we can believe in" for the gullible, insipid sheep to swallow. Simple slogans for simple minds (most of whom couldn't be bothered to examine his Bush-accomplice voting record from the senate).
Notice he didn't choose Kucinich.
And most people will vote for this war criminal Obama once again. What does that make the people who voted for him in 2008 and who vote him in 2012? It makes them War Criminal ACCOMPLICES.
Two things, "stopprojecting":
1. The insect you describe is a "GNAT". The G is silent.
2. "Intellection" is not a word. People with INTELLECT know this.
I'm glad to see the conspiracy tards are still around. You all do know that most conspiracies fail under their weight, and the bigger they are, the more likely they destroy themselves and fail?
Get better, Hillary, so you can atone for your horrid behavior in the campaign of 2008.
To "stopprojecting":
I take back number two, as I honestly had never heard anyone use that word before. It sounded fake. I looked it up to be sure - that was good intellection on my part. My mistake.
umm, hey tripper, you need to stop home schooling:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+nat&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS214US214&ie=UTF-8
even though I could be wrong, and I didn't even look at those search results, I think you're last reply pretty much sums it up.
eh moron?
"that was good intellection on my part"
Looking a word up has nothing to do with intellection, it's common sense.
And who cares?
Glad I got your attention...it's at least worth my time in that sense.
and to think you corrected me on the most trivial aspects of my posts (also, keep in mind, while Gnat is not a colloquy, it's not really a word, it's kind of like the word "bug", and since I really am thinking of a very tiny organism, with no basic sentience, intellect or cultured intellection (that's a little unfair), I'd say regardless of the phonetic distortion that I displayed, based on your posts and those of the other users, it's safe to say:
Tomorrow, I'll learn to watch my phonetic distortion and "proof" my posts a little more critically, whereas, you'll be idiots forever!
Loss of influence? We have already had eight years of loss of influence. Hillary has her work cut out, just trying to repair the damage Bush has done to our prestige and standing.
She is one smart, tough cookie. If it can be done, she will do it.
carol h.,
Bush had accomplices in the damage done and they include the Bush-accomplice Dems in congress. They were not required to vote "yes" repeatedly. They did so willingly.
Stop the Dem kool-aid drinking. Stop the partisan "my team is better than your team" shit. Both parties are corrupt scum and full of war criminals, including Queen Hillary of the Borg Collective. The woman is a war criminal, just like war criminal Obama.
Why do people like you have trouble telling the full story, rather than giving some partisan "Dem Team" spew?
We are where we are today because of this juvenile "my team (Dems) is better than your team (Repug)" shit. They are BOTH corrupt scum and neither give a fuk about the US Constitution, otherwise we wouldn't be where we are.
Wish she break her neck next time, stupid twat.
HEY STOPPROJECTING ..
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Please take your meds.
K ?
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