Mrs Bill Clinton will live down in history as another, if not better, than Henry Kissinger.
She can probably visit any one or all the 100 to 200 countries that either look up to America as some kind of big brother or big sister, or America has some influence or interest in them (hopefully) for common good.
By becoming a better Kissinger, Mrs Clinton as President-elect Barack Obama's State Secretary can probably bring back the "liking America again" fondness of many countries, big or small, in the process, better understanding what's the apt foreign policies for any one or all countries, friends or not, that will benefit not only the socalled leaders of those countries.
We remembered the excesses of Marcos being tolerated by America, until Lugar advised the strongman to cut and cut cleanly. The Filipino people had suffered much during those most trying times, most interesting times, most dangerous times for Filipinos in The Philippines. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's dispensation - onwards its less-than-two-year stretch out of office - is being haunted, hounded by the ghosts of the unburied Marcos's past intelligent miscalculations. Her ilks are allegedly working heaven and earth to extend her term.
People Power - the first that relegated the great Filipino President Marcos into historical oblivion and installed a housewife (Cory Aquino to martyr Benigno 'Ninoy' Aquino Jr) to the corridors of power - will not allow that. Anyway...
If Hillary Clinton will make good in the next four to eight years, Americans and friends of the Americans abroad may carry her to White House, after Obama had effected necessary changes in America, as we would like to drum up and drumbeat.
As I wrote earlier, the next President after Obama will be a woman. Chealsea's mother could be "the man, for the tough job" of President for all of us. "We are all Americans," after all, or so says a French writer, whether we like it or not.
Unsolicited advice to Bill and Hillary Clinton?: Be your own man (woman). Do not upstage the Obama of the next four to eight years. There is a time for everything (Eccelsiastes). But where's Al Gore in all this? We'll find out next time...
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