Hillary gets testy: I’m the secretary of state, not Bill

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton snapped at a Congolese student over a question mistranslated about her husband’s views on foreign policy. You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?’ she snapped back at her questioner.

‘My husband is not Secretary of State. I am,’ she raged after a translator made a mistake and asked what her partner felt about an international matter.

Mrs Clinton, who was speaking at a meeting in the Congolese capital Kinshasa during her first official tour of Africa, looked clearly rattled.

‘You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?’ she replied incredulously when the male student asked her what ‘Mr Clinton’ thought of World Bank concerns about a multibillion-dollar Chinese loan offer to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

‘If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channelling my husband.’

Notes the DailyMail: The question was left unanswered as the moderator of the event quickly moved on.

The translator should have asked what ‘Mr Obama’ thought as the student’s question was actually about Barack Obama, not Bill Clinton.

Sidelined for weeks after she was injured during a fall this spring, Mrs Clinton returned to a flurry of speculation that she had been shoved to the side as a diplomatic force.

Commentators said she had been overshadowed by globe-trotting President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and a bevy of heavyweight special envoys assigned to the world’s critical hotspots.