Hillary Clinton's Strange Remarks

The world has been talking the past two days about the phrases US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton has been using to express her views about Syria and its related issues.
She began by saying the refusal of Russia and China to join the world community in condemning Syrian President al-Assad and his regime of terrorism against his own people is “despicable.”
Later, she turned directly to al-Assad, telling him to step down because his regime is finished, saying “it may not be tomorrow or in a week…” but it is over. She followed up by addressing herself to the Syrian army, asking them to think about their duty to the Syrian people and to save their honor by stepping aside from the violence.
What is striking about Clinton’s free-wheeling remarks these past days is that they come from an American Secretary of State, whose remarks are expected to be measured, calming and non-adversarial.
Is Hillary Clinton speaking for President Obama - that is, has he chosen the words we are hearing.
Or has the President unleashed her to say what she thinks appropriate for the time and place, not worrying about what the diplomatic result might be.
Or has Hillary Clinton, who late last year announced that she wanted to leave the State Department at the end of January 2012, simply come to the time in her career, and in her relation with President Obama, that she feels free to say what she thinks on the world stage. If this is the case, she is playing a dangerous game that could backfire on America, but since her aggressive words have been aimed solely at the Syrian situation, she has little to fear because the world is firmly in agreement with her.
What I find interesting is that Mrs. Clinton is at the same time defending President Obama against his potential Republican opponent in November, saying that she thinks he will be re-elected. This is something that no sitting Secretary of State ought to say…ever. She is not a political figure, but the person who represents America to the entire world.
She admitted this when she apologized for her partisan political remark, but the entire segment of her apology is amazingly non-correct politically. The following is a quote from the CNN report of the exchange in Tunisia.
“Clinton also defended telling an audience in Tunisia Saturday that Obama would be re-elected.
‘I was asked whether the comments in the primary campaign, some of which have been quite inflammatory, represented America’ she said, adding that they did not necessarily. "I represent America.’
As America's top diplomat, Clinton would not normally make political statements to a foreign audience.
‘Probably my enthusiasm for the president got a little out of hand,’ Clinton said with a laugh.
But she said her comments were appropriate.
‘I know what happens in campaigns. I've been there, done that, and I know that things are said that are not going to be put into practice or policy,’ she said. ‘I did think I needed to point that out to the audience.’ "
That is an amazing statement and I defy anyone to find its equal anywhere in the history of American Secretaries of State.
I wonder if she is making her farewells as she travels this month. Or if she has finally decided to break out of the Obama administration straightjacket and be her own person.
If this is the case, then we might want to follow her closely, because she may be getting ready to be a candidate herself, or to line up Democrat convention support that will make it necessary for President Obama to choose her as his Vice President if he wants to be nominated himself for a second term.
I’m guessing, of course. But, no one as savvy and intelligent as Hillary Clinton would make the remarks she has made in the last two days without understanding their implications or without have a very good reason for making them…time will tell.