Now that Hillary Clinton has been nominated to be President-elect Obama’s secretary of state, there’s a new narrative going around Europe: ‘Are we ready for this?’
Jean-Claude Kiefer writes for France’s Les Dernieres Nouvelles d’Alsace:
“The political couple, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, had better prompt Europeans to reflect quickly, shake them out of their torpor and bring them to imagine a new American policy. Because this is an explosive duo: on the one hand, there is an idealistic president, and on the other, there is a very pragmatic senator from New York capable of realizing the ideals of the first, at least as far as foreign policy is concerned. This alliance is not only a circumstantial one dictated by the need to reconcile Democrats after the fratricidal battle of the spring primaries. ”
Editorial by Jean-Claude Kiefer
Translated By Sandrine Ageorges
December 2, 2008
France – Les Dernières Nouvelles d’Alsace – Home Page (French)
The political couple, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, had better prompt Europeans to reflect quickly, shake them out of their torpor and bring them to imagine a new American policy. Because this is an explosive duo: on the one hand, there is an idealistic president, and on the other, there is a very pragmatic senator from New York capable of realizing the ideals of the first, at least as far as foreign policy is concerned. This alliance is not only a circumstantial one dictated by the need to reconcile Democrats after the fratricidal battle of the spring primaries. She expresses a genuine desire: Hillary Clinton has very defined ideas on the war in Iraq, on Iran, on the Middle East, China, Russia … and relations with Europe. Her experience in foreign policy is real: she participated in a hundred official trips with her husband Bill Clinton, less as “first lady” than as a committed activist pleading for the establishment of micro-credits and supporting development programs. She holds an address book that Barack Obama does not – and she’ll know how to use it.
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