Tonight on 60 Minutes, with Steve Kroft playing Andy Cohen to Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's Real Housewives, the president and the secretary of state had the reunion episode of their terrific show Barack Obama's First Term. And boy, were they complimentary of one another:
In a fiery exchange with Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson at the Senate hearings on last September's attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called Republican claims of administration incompetency — or a cover-up — "the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
Today Washington, D.C. was all atwitter with the graduation of President Obama from first-term president to second-term president. Here is your Inauguration 2013 yearbook.
Last night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep did what any self-respecting pair of BFFs does when they're together at "the club" (in this case, the Kennedy Center Honors gala): they took a selfie. Unfortunately, we don't have access to Streep's iPhone, and will likely never see the original photo. But we can imagine what they might have done with it afterward, in the social image editor of their choice:
Frank Bruni wants Bill Clinton to apologize already. No, The New York Times op-ed columnist wasn't personally attacked by the former President or anything. Bruni wants Clinton to finally own up to signing the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996.
Unless you're Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, one of the twinks from One Direction, "Fifty Shades of Grey" author E.L. James, Olympian Gabby Douglas, musical idiot Seth MacFarlane, probable Oscar winner Ben Affleck, or perennially angry New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, you did not make Barbara Walters annual list of most fascinating people.
Now that President Obama has been reelected, we can focus on more important things like the 2016 presidential race. The big question on everyone's mind right now is whether or not Hillary Clinton will run in the next election. She told Obama a long time ago that she would not return to serve as Secretary of State in the President's second term. So what is a former first lady and Senator to do with a bunch of time off?
In an interview with CNN tonight, Hilary Clinton claimed responsibility for the security at the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya before the attack that killed Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans. In doing so, she took some pressure off President Obama and Vice President Biden for what's become a heated campaign issue.
Snapped by AFP/Getty photographer Paul J. Richards during yesterday's McGovern Leadership Award Ceremony, this photo of World Food Programme Ambassador Christina Aguilera getting — ahem — vetted by Hillary Clinton leads The Superficial to wonder: "How long has Bill Clinton been able to assume control of Hillary's body?"
Secretaries of state don't traditionally attend political conventions, and anyway, she was in East Timor (9,963 miles away), but Hillary Clinton still didn't miss her husband's speech last night: she watched it (taped) around midnight eastern time in the Timorese ambassador's home. Aww. Aren't they cute, in a centrist-sellout, welfare-demolishing, drone-warring, Glass-Steagall-gutting kind of way?
On Tuesday night, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton found herself embroiled in a surprise bump and grind session at a dinner hosted by South African Foreign Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane.
