Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Bill's not secretary of state, I am, Hillary Clinton snaps

They may be hailed as Team Clinton for their international humanitarian efforts, but there was no mistaking who is the official top diplomat in the Clinton household when Hillary reacted angrily to a question about her husband Bill yesterday.

Less than a week after the former US President stole his wife’s thunder by securing the release of two American journalists detained in North Korea, Mrs Clinton, the US Secretary of State, snapped when asked about her husband’s opinion by a university student during her seven-nation African tour.



Mrs Clinton was taking part in a public discussion at a town hall in the Congolese capital of Kinshasa when a student asked what her husband thought about a multibillion-dollar Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

“Wait, you want me to tell you what my husband thinks?” an incredulous Mrs Clinton said, before adding sternly: “My husband is not the Secretary of State, I am.”

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