Jane, Rose... Hillary
Oh dear. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has earned two undesirable nicknames in various press reports this week by virtue of her Thanksgiving visit to the Middle East: "Hanoi Hillary" and now "Tokyo Hillary."
The New York Democrat did not get the warm and fuzzy welcome from our troops, noted the American Spectator's Prowler yesterday.
"In fact so few U.S. military personnel volunteered to meet and sit with her, that military leaders in Baghdad had to designate enlisted personnel and junior officers to spend time with the New York senator."
"If Clinton was aware of her seemingly unpopularity, she didn't seem to care. Almost immediately after landing in Iraq, she began bad-mouthing the Bush administration to the military personnel she met, telling them that while America supported the troops, there were questions about the Bush administration's approach.
"To these men and women over here, it is the same thing," a U.S. official said. "Her husband didn't get it and she obviously hasn't learned."