{"id":4636,"date":"2011-03-19T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2011\/03\/19\/best-secretary-of-state-ever-says-obama\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:13:48","slug":"best-secretary-of-state-ever-says-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=4636","title":{"rendered":"Best Secretary Of State Ever Says Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:17923,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/19\\\/world\\\/africa\\\/19policy.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1300532465-ioLBw35OoXKZ\\\/h+Ov6rEAA&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250812205122\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.nytimes.com\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/19\\\/world\\\/africa\\\/19policy.html?_r=1&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 16:19:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 16:19:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17924,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/justoneminute.typepad.com\\\/main\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/to-the-shores-of-tripoli-benghazi.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250910153304\\\/https:\\\/\\\/justoneminute.typepad.com\\\/main\\\/2011\\\/03\\\/to-the-shores-of-tripoli-benghazi.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 16:19:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-21 16:19:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:403},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17925,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.deccanherald.com\\\/content\\\/120538\\\/clinton-ever-secretary-state-obama.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.deccanherald.com\\\/content\\\/120538\\\/clinton-ever-secretary-state-obama.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:17926,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/American-Foreign-Policy-Third-Kissinger\\\/dp\\\/0393056414\\\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1300541249&amp;sr=8-9-spell&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.amazon.com\\\/American-Foreign-Policy-Third-Kissinger\\\/dp\\\/0393056414\\\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/19\/world\/africa\/19policy.html?_r=1&amp;hp=&amp;adxnnl=1&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;adxnnlx=1300532465-ioLBw35OoXKZ\/h+Ov6rEAA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Obama<\/a> has now <a href=\"http:\/\/justoneminute.typepad.com\/main\/2011\/03\/to-the-shores-of-tripoli-benghazi.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">made the decision to send the U.S. armed forces to the shores of Tripoli<\/a> again, I stumbled across this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deccanherald.com\/content\/120538\/clinton-ever-secretary-state-obama.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">little tidbit<\/a>. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Obama who made a rare appearance at the Foggy Bottom headquarters of the State Department to attend the holiday reception party hosted by the Washington&#8217;s vibrant diplomatic community by Clinton said, &#8220;I think there&#8217;s a consensus building that <b>this may be one of the best Secretaries of State we&#8217;ve ever had in this country\u2019s history<\/b>.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess that would be because Hillary isn&#8217;t a dead white guy like these other former Secretaries of State: <span id=\"comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e20147e350dfc3970b-content\">Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall, Daniel Webster, Cordell Hull, George Marshall and Dean Acheson. Or even a living white guy like Henry Kissinger who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Foreign-Policy-Third-Kissinger\/dp\/0393056414\/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1300541249&amp;sr=8-9-spell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote the book on foreign policy<\/a> that I used in college.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Obama has now made the decision to send the U.S. armed forces to the shores of Tripoli&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[44,1493],"class_list":["post-4636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-barack-obama","tag-hillary-clinton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6418,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4636\/revisions\/6418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}