Thursday, June 18, 2009

This Nearly Was Mine

AP Photographer Pablo Martinez Monsivais snapped this pensive, almost poignant shot of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last Tuesday.

Clinton is standing in the colonnade of the White House, looking on from a distance at the joint news conference of President Obama and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak in the Rose Garden.

Is she thinking of what might have been? Of what, in fact, almost was?

And liberal as her politics are, when compared with the radical assault on the U.S. Constitution, America's economy and the nation's values that has been mounted by Barack Obama, there's a lot of Americans (Republicans included) who feel the same sighing regret.