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Yes, Hillary Clinton is the Secretary of State, so what?

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Hillary Clinton is now on the minds of pundits and commentators with her outburst at a town hall event in Africa. An individual had the gumption to ask Hillary Clinton what Mr. Clinton thought about a certain topic, granted we learned later that apparently the translation went bad and it was supposed to be Mr. Obama, but Pandora's box was opened. I am going to slightly disagree with my conservative brethren here, I find Hillary's response to be understandable. Not just because Bill upstaged her in North Korea, not because she is stuck in Africa doing annoying Q&As, but because the question was inappropriate . Yes, I said it. Hillary has clearly been stuck in the shadow of former president Bill Clinton for a long time and desperately wants to break out. By all political measure, Hillary has been a rather successful former first lady serving as a senator and ultimately as Secretary of State. Therefore any references to what Bill thinks about political matters, especially cur...