Reply #105: To me the bigger faux pas with the Russian "button"

[karynnj]

was that no one in our state department spoke up to say that "the button"would have negative cold war echoes to some - and the fact that they didn't use Cyrillic letters was mind boggling.

She was pretty awkward in China as well. She did ok on her middle eastern trip - though there were no hints of any real accomplishments.

BUT - in spite of all of that, it seems true that her name and fame automatically makes her visits a higher level than other Secretaries of State would have. That is useful for Obama and the US and it took guts for HRC to take a position that was all foreign policy, where her greater expertise is domestic policy. She was not someone who has been a foreign policy expert for the Democratic party.