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Hell hath no fury like a woman asked her husband’s opinion instead of her own. Witness the US secretary of state Hillary Clinton, who this week nearly bit the head off a Congolese student who asked what her husband thought of China’s offer of a loan to his country. “If you want my opinion, I’ll give you my opinion,” she snapped. “I’m not here to channel my husband.”
Her loss of temper was understandable, coming halfway through a tour of Africa that has involved a punishing schedule of meetings. Or maybe she, y’know, had her period. In fact the translator had erred and the student had asked for the (current) president’s opinion. So in order to prevent a repeat performance, we offer a small list of happy thoughts for Clinton to focus on next time.
1 You are secretary of state. OK, it’s not the big job, but it’s still a big job. You’re the most powerful woman in the world. You have, in a very real sense, made it. And if the worst comes to the worst, you have discreetly to arrange the assassination of only four people before you get to the White House. It’s nothing. Dick Cheney used to do it eight times a day before breakfast.
2 You’re in Kinshasa. It’s just a hop, skip and a jump to the official records offices of Kenya. A quick rifle through the birth certificates department there, and who knows what you could find?
3 You will never again have to put your name to a book called anything like It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, or pretend to give a mouse-sized shit about baking cookies.
4 With spy satellites, you can know where anybody is at any time. So when he says he’s off on a humanitarian mission to North Korea, you don’t have to wait until he comes back with a pair of liberated journalists to prove it.
5 You’re looking 30 years younger than the day you married whatshisface and without surgery. That’s not sexism, that’s simple testimony to the rejuvenating power of a good haircut, and an encouragement to us all.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/12/hillary-clinton-bill-clinton-congo
