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Clinton’s "Nothing Job"

August 12, 2009

From today’s New York Post:

HILL HATH A FURY OVER NOTHING JOB While Bill Cavorts in Vegas

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fury over a question about her husband’s views shows she’s clearly not loving the job that she never really wanted anyway, several insiders told The Post

And what’s Clinton actually doing this week in that “nothing job” unnamed “insiders” tell the Post she doesn’t like? The Post doesn’t say, but here’s Jeffrey Gettleman of the New York Times:

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton came face to face with the consequences of the brutality in eastern Congo on Tuesday afternoon when she met a Congolese woman who had been gang-raped while she was eight months pregnant…The fetus died…

Mrs. Clinton used her unprecedented visit — she is the first secretary of state to venture into the war zone here — to unveil a $17 million plan to fight Congo’s stunning levels of sexual violence, a problem she called “evil in its basest form.”

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So: “nothing” much.

Liz Cox Barrett is a writer at CJR.