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Hillary Clinton snapped about a question regarding her husband Bill Clinton. It looks like Hillary is not handling the stress from her position especially after Bill Clinton was put in the spotlight last week for rescuing jailed journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee from North Korea. There is some information that the question for Hillary was not translated properly and the student meant to ask about Barack Obama.

HILLARY CLINTON ANGRY

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton’s temper flared on Monday when a Congolese university student asked her for her husband’s thinking on an international financial matter.

A week after former President Bill Clinton traveled to North Korea to secure the release of two detained American journalists and stole the limelight from the start of his wife’s first trip to Africa, Clinton was clearly displeased by the question at town hall forum in Kinshasa.

“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 multi-billion-dollar Chinese loan offer to the Congo.

“My husband is not secretary of state, I am,” an obviously annoyed Clinton said sharply. “If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.”

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

Hillary Clinton Accepts Obama’s Nomination as Secretary of State

It’s official. President Elect Barack Obama announced his national security team and nominated Hillary Clinton for the Secretary of State position. Senator Hillary Clinton accepted. Flashback: Obama Tells Clinton He Wants Her To Advise Him. Watch the security team announcement videos if you missed them. Dr. Susan E. Rice Explains Obama’s Foreign Policy Plans

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Senator Hillary Clinton formally withdrew from the Democratic race for president. However,many people in the Democratic Party weren’t sure how Hillary was going to handle her speech at the Democratic Convention. There were rumblings that Hillary was going to hold on to her pledged delegates after her bitter battle for the White House ended with a victory for her rival Barack Obama. Hillary did mention her run for president during her speech and seems as though she is preparing to run again in the next election. Watch Hillary Clinton’s speech if you missed it. Here are some reaction to Hillary Clinton’s speech.

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain seems to making campaign decisions based on the Hillary Clinton campaign handbook. McCain released new attack ads blaming the media for being "in love" with Barack Obama. John McCain was angry that major media outlets focused their coverage on Barack Obama’s visit to the Middle East. John McCain’s aide Tucker Bounds attacked Obama over his statement on genocide after his recent visit to the Holocaust Museum.

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Republican presidential nominee John McCain
launched a new television ad Monday throwing blame on Democratic rival
Barack Obama for high gasoline prices.

The McCain ad points to Obama’s opposition to domestic offshore drilling.

The Arizona Republican wants to make it easier for companies to
drill offshore in the face of gasoline prices above the $4 per gallon
mark.

Obama has voted against the lifting of offshore restrictions and
wants to impose new taxes on oil company profits. That revenue would be
given to consumers to help deal with the high prices.

Neither candidate favors drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

The Sierra Club faulted McCain’s energy stance Monday and his call
for a 10 percent cut to the 35 percent federal corporate income tax
rate. The environmental group, which backs Obama, said the cut will aid
Big Oil companies.

McCain said the tax cut is needed to keep the U.S. competitive with other countries. source

Will.i.am was honored with A Webby Artist of the Year Award in
recognition of his contribution to the political landscape with his
making of the Obama videos

Rapper Ludacris also attended the 12th annual Webby Awards last night at Cipriani. He performed at the afterparty.

The Huffington post founder Arianna Huffington and internet celebrities Amber Lee Ettinger aka "Obama Girl" and McCain Girl were also at the star studded event. Stephen Colbert from the Colbert Report was honored for the innovative way he has used the
Internet to interact with fans of The Colbert Report – from Google
bombing to make him the top search result for "greatest living
American" to challenging the "truthiness".  of Wikipedia. Musician David Byrne received a Lifetime Achievement award. The Webbys recognized Byrne’s vision both
artistically and as a pioneer in embracing the spirit of the Internet
and technology in the arts. source

We attended the Digg meetup and live Diggnation episode taping during NY  Internet Week in Williamsburg Brooklyn. The crowd was great and we had alot of fun. Diggnation hosts Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were greeted in the Big Apple like rock stars. Hundreds of fans stood in a long line that went around the corner just for a chance to meet them. Kevin Rose and Alex Albrecht were cool and everybody loved them.

Revision 3 shows Diggnation and The Totally Rad Show both won People’s Voice Webby Awards in the Technology& Variety Online Film/ Video category. Congrats guys!  Thanks to Walt Ribeiro for sending the Kevin Rose pic.  Stay tuned to Binside TV for our special episode featuring interviews with Kevin Rose, Alex Albrecht and Digg Ceo Jay Adelson at the Live Diggnation event.  Shout out to Kevin, Alex and Jay thanks again for having us. Visit the Diggnation website to watch the show and for the latest updates. Diggnation is a weekly tech/web culture show based on the top digg.com social bookmarking news stories. 

The stars of the Internet came
out on Monday for the 12th Annual Webby Awards, which honors
achievement in online film and video projects.

Blogs editor Brian Heater
and I hit the red carpet to schmooze with the likes of "Chocolate Rain"
star Tay Zonday, "Obama girl" Amber Lee Ettinger, French director
Michel Gondry, and actor/director David Wain.

Zonday was recently parodied on an episode of "South Park" that
touched on the idea of Internet stars not actually being able to make
any money. Though Zonday said the mention was "charming" and
"flattering in a ‘South Park’ way," he disputed the idea that he would
not be able to benefit financially from his YouTube stardom.

"I was a disgruntled PhD student about a year ago, and I think
this caused me to get bored with that and try my hand to make my living
as an artist," he said. "And so far it hasn’t been that bad."

In grad school, Zonday was researching the relationship between
performance and social change, but figured "why study history when you
can make it?" he said. source

Hillary Clinton refused to back down or give up the fight after Barack Obama clinched the Democratic Nomination for president. Hillary Clinton offended many people during the end of her political campaign when she made a comment during an interview that she was staying in the presidential race because  Robert Kennedy was assassinated in June. 

Today her concession speech represents the moment that many political leaders in the Democratic party had been waiting for since Barack Obama took the lead in delegates. Sen. Clinton took the a step towards uniting the Democratic party after a long and very bitter primary season saying, "I throw my full support behind" Sen. Obama.

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Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) ended her historic quest to become America’s first woman president Saturday and officially conceded the Democratic nomination to Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL).

During her concession speech, in Washington’s National Building Museum in front of a crowd of thousands, the former first lady urged her supporters to do everything they can to help elect Obama, her former rival, all the way to the White House as the next president.

Check out the full story here.