U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton signs a guestbook as she stands beside Rabbi Israel Meir Lau during her visit to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem March 3, 2009, one of the few opportunities for press traveling in the Clinton "bubble" to get up close and personal. (Darren Whiteside/Reuters)
Inside the Hillary bubble
Madame Secretary, when will we have peace? And bathroom breaks?
RAMALLAH — The further back you are in a motorcade, the more bemused the expression on the faces of the pedestrians watching you speed by. When I passed them, the people of this Palestinian city stared with slack jaws, as though they wondered if the parade of shiny black Chevrolet Suburbans would go on forever.
I was in car 22. Of 24.
But the people on the sidewalk...
