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Is Hillary back from her bookseller appearance in Berlin Germany yet?
From www.timesunion.com:

GOP chief blasts Clinton trip
The senator is spending July 4 holiday in Europe promoting her new book

By DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press
First published: Friday, July 4, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The state Republican Party chief criticized Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton Thursday for traveling through Europe promoting her new book during the Independence Day holiday, insisting she should be listening to people in Paris, N.Y., instead of Paris, France.
"The listening tour is clearly over, and the self-promoting book tour is in high gear," complained GOP chairman Alexander Treadwell. "It's all about ambition and ego and I think the people of New York state are getting tired of her act."
Treadwell charged the promotional events for "Living History," the best-selling memoir of her time in the White House, are detracting from her work as the junior senator from New York.
He also cited a recent appearance by Clinton, a Democrat, at a Los Angeles hospital, and book-signing events in the Virginia suburbs outside Washington last month.
Congress is in recess for the week of the July Fourth holiday. Clinton has scheduled stops in Germany, France and the Netherlands. She will spend Independence Day in England.
Clinton spokeswoman Karen Dunn said, "New Yorkers are sick of this kind of divisive politics. A good Fourth of July lesson for the Republican party is to stop questioning the patriotism of their fellow Americans."
Given the United States' recent rocky relationship with France over the war in Iraq, Treadwell took special exception to Clinton's appearance in that country.
French first lady Bernadette Chirac said Wednesday that many women hope Clinton will run for the presidency and win, saying such a historic move would encourage women around the globe to engage in politics.
"Maybe (president) of France, but not here," said Treadwell, who said he believed most members of Congress "spend their time back in their districts ... getting in touch with the people they represent."
Paris, N.Y., is a town of roughly 5,000 people in Oneida County.
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