Then last evening, the keynote speaker for our Premier
Governance Meeting was Hillary Clinton. This was her third
presentation for the day and if the NY Times is accurate, yesterday was quite a
payday at $200K per speech. I found her to be engaging, extremely
knowledgeable on issues other than health care. She read prepared
remarks from the teleprompter related to our work in health care and you could
tell that someone else wrote her remarks.
However, once she moved to politics and her roles as Senator
and Secretary of State, she was very much on her game. She said her
greatest moment as Secretary of State was the capture and death of Osama Bin
Laden and her worst was the death of Ambassador Stevens and three others in
Benghazi. Good answers under any circumstances, especially if you
are running for President. She did not use our venue to announce her
intent.
Other great moments had a more human interest spin, i.e.
freeing the Chinese dissident from the US Embassy in China where he sought
asylum. In her opinion, the best world leader to work with is Angela
Merkel, the German Chancellor, and the worst is Vladimir Putin, the Russian
President. At least Hillary has her dislike for Putin in common with
George W. Bush. We heard W speak two years ago at this same
conference and say that he very much disliked
Putin for the same reasons--that he is an intimidating bully who is trying to
make Russia great once again but is failing miserably. The greatest
threats against the US over the next five years per Hillary are terrorism (I
guess we didn't defeat it after all), weapons of mass destruction (and we are
negotiating with Iran to keep their enriched uranium?) and China picking fights
of already claimed territories, islands, atolls, etc. mostly with
Japan.
All in all, it was a most interesting evening; and like her
or not, she is very much Presidential material.
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