Clinton defended, provocatively, as Obama’s ‘Saudi’ wife

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, June 4, 2009 | MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images   I have to depart for Secretary Clinton’s speech soon, but before I leave I just want to bring to your attention Tina Brown’s provocative Daily Beast piece, “Obama’s Other Wife,” in which she calls Clinton Obama’s “great foreign-policy wife” and says Clinton has “an office ...

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Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, June 4, 2009 | MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, June 4, 2009 | MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images
 

I have to depart for Secretary Clinton’s speech soon, but before I leave I just want to bring to your attention Tina Brown’s provocative Daily Beast piece, “Obama’s Other Wife,” in which she calls Clinton Obama’s “great foreign-policy wife” and says Clinton has “an office wifehood of the Saudi variety.”

The second paragraph declares:

It’s time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa.

Brown praises Clinton, stating:

She has always cared more about the substance of work than its status trappings.

and

Policy is her meat and drink. On her State Department plane, Hillary is always eager to throw off her well-groomed public look and sit up front with no makeup, wearing sweats and her bookworm glasses, as she crunches her way through a big fat file of foreign-policy memos.

Brown concludes:

You could say that Obama is lucky to have such a great foreign-policy wife. Those who voted for Hillary wonder how long she’ll be content with an office wifehood of the Saudi variety.

Photo: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images

Preeti Aroon was copy chief at Foreign Policy from 2009 to 2016 and was an FP assistant editor from 2007 to 2009. Twitter: @pjaroonFP

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