I got the impression, viewing several of the pictures, that she wanted to give the notice to the world: I don't NEED this man to make me important. I stand on who I am and associating with HIM isn't going to make me one bit better or more important and I'm not falling for this charm thing. The photo where she and the President are walking out of the building was quite telling; she walked ahead of him, not with him. Not even Condi Rice or Donald Rumsfeld does that. She seemed to be intent on making it clear that she was purposed to go before, not with, him. It could be a political ideology thing but even if it is, I think it goes deeper than that. It seems to be personal on more levels than ideological differences. I hope his words melted her at least a little.
She seems to me to be a very self-possessed woman, which is good, but that this is tinged with some bitterness, which is bad. I don't know her story; I don't know how much she may have suffered; but it seems to me that she's got a problem in her heart that isn't pretty when displayed in this way. And it was disrespectful of a President whose being, let alone his office, calls for more respect.
She seemed to me to have 'good vibes' with the President, and he was his normal, gracious, kind and good humored self.
I didn't hear her introduction of him, but I think it was very positive, so I believe the photos are painting the wrong picture.
She must be really ferociously aggressive to get away with that! The only person who can walk in front of the President is a SS officer who is there to "take a bullet".
This woman has a chip on her shoulder the size of a Sequoia. It's always going to be someone else's fault.
I don't like her at all. W will be polite to her, but I hope no one else is!