YIKES!
Posted on 01/14/2009 8:03:57 PM PST by Libloather
Clinton bids colleagues farewell
By AMIE PARNES | 1/14/09 9:31 PM EST
At an emotional private party just off the Senate floor, soon-to-be Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton told her Senate colleagues Wednesday night that serving in the Senate “has been the greatest experience of my life” and that leaving them was “like leaving family.”
Clinton, whose eyes welled up as she worked the elegant LBJ room in the Capitol, hugged and kissed colleagues, posed for pictures and thanked them one by one as she reminded them she would be “just around the corner.”
Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) nearly choked up as he spoke. “Parting is such sweet sorrow – I have such sweet memories of you,” he said. “I feel like crying.”
An emotional Clinton responded, “This is not goodbye — this is just a wave, Harry.. . . We’re going to be in each others’ hearts and minds.”
**SNIP**
Schumer said he had “complete confidence” that Clinton would be “the best Secretary of State this country has ever known.
“Eat your heart out James Monroe,” Schumer added to laughs. “I think he was Secretary of State.”
He was, from 1811 to 1814 and 1815 to 1817.
Alluding to his relationship with Clinton, which improved steadily through the years they served together, Schumer said: “Hillary looks great from far away, but up close it’s even better.”
“Hillary,” he said, “you’re the greatest.”
Mikulski, a Democrat from Maryland, called Clinton "the best friend you can have."
Clinton said she wanted to have “a real partnership between the State Department and the Congress.”
“Let’s go out and make the future better than it is,” she said.
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YIKES!
Well maybe they’ll just decide to keep her — if it will make her happy.
No Kleenex ready but we’re really stocked up on toilet paper.
Puke, Puke and Puke.
These people have just ruined us.
Reminds me of the warm sendoff for John Tower with his former colleagues. NOT!!!
Top two - turning $1000 into $100,000 and getting away with stealing FBI files?
I loved Clinton’s slam at Secretary Rice - by the statement that Clinton was going to “restore diplomacy” - and do it smarter .. good grief - how rude is that.
Can you imagine a repub saying that about a dem .. that’s what I totally dislike about the dems .. they think they’re so superior and so much smarter .. and they’re not .. in fact they’re more stupid than most - and their superiority is FAKE!!
>>I loved Clinton’s slam at Secretary Rice - by the statement that Clinton was going to “restore diplomacy” - and do it smarter .. good grief - how rude is that.<<
They are classless, vile, evil bastards.
What causes Chelsea to be so pi**ed? What a look!
... that too!!
What ever... she carpetbaged NY state thinking it would be a stepping stone to a much higher office... the people of the Empire State that voted for this know-nothing opportunist have no clue that MS. CLINTON sold them a bill of goods... kicking sand in all their faces.
So true
Her confirmation will be a green light for her and Bill to become the first political billionaires.
He will continue to rack in the dough from foreign interests while she serves them tea and cookies.
Never thought of it; but that is really right. Disgusting.
Well, how would you look if you had to go through life as her?
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