Hillary Clinton showed she’s the boss (video)
On Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton showed a student who’s boss– literally – at an open forum with young people in Kinshasa during her tour of Africa.
A university student took the microphone and asked about the involvement of China and the World Bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
“What does Mr. Clinton think about it?” he said to the befuddlement of the crowd, according to AFP. Clinton replied in a forceful voice: “You want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the secretary of state, I am. You ask my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I’m not going to channel my husband.”
Former president Clinton, who has actively promoted African development since leaving the White House, is not joining his wife for any part of her seven-nation tour of the continent. His focus right now is Haiti. The former president announced Sunday he would lead an international trade mission of private investors to Haiti in October to pursue energy and other development amid signs the nation is stabilizing.
Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has made women’s rights a top priority on the Africa trip. She will head today to Goma, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, to meet survivors of soaring sexual violence. Clinton said she would press President Laurent Kabila to take action, noting that some members of the Congolese military were responsible for the mass rape.
“We are now in the 21st century. It is no longer acceptable for there to be violence against women in the home or in the community,” she told the students. “People need to stand together against it. I hope that here in the DRC there will be a concerted effort to demand justice for women who are violently attacked and to make sure that their attackers are punished.”
