mind-blowing hex at cgi
I understand why everyone wants to touch Bill Clinton. I met Bill a couple of years ago at a fairly intimate 4th of July fundraiser for his wife Hillary at Terry McAuliffe’s home. Upon arrival, the President couldn’t even escape the walkway to reach the party, due to the collective weight of the instant cluster of folk in tow. Showing no trace of annoyance, he graciously indulged as many as he could, much to the chagrin of an unusually polite Secret Service detail.
With a worn copy of My Life in-hand (and no make-up on-face) I slinked through the all-male cluster to reach the President, intent on engaging him beyond a 15-second, gushing handshake. Thankfully, I succeeded.
I asked Mr. Clinton how ordinary citizens could play a more active role in idea-sharing events such as the Renaissance Weekends he and Hillary so inspiringly referenced in their apres White House memoirs. As I defended my circle of close-talking space, he revealed the release of his brand new book Giving and convincingly told a mesmerized crowd it only takes one person to change the world. It was his intensity on the topic that not only took over the moment but struck a cord with me. He elaborated how those Renaissance weekends inspired the creation of Clinton Global Initiative (then approaching its 3rd year) and how they would soon stream CGI over the internet so anyone who wanted to share and participate, could. Those five minutes changed my life.
That evening I was convinced that Hillary and Bill Clinton would become the next leaders of the free world. The truth is, they never stopped and still are.
To say that spending a week at the Clinton Global Initiative was inspiring simply doesn’t grab the gravitas of the experience. Indeed, it has taken me over a week to process and collect my thoughts on the entire journey, from receiving word of my approved credentials to my reflective flight home.
Perched just feet away from Bill’s mind-blowing brilliance for four consecutive days has its ups and downs though. Think Viagra for your brain…sent into overdrive with no “off” button…stimulating and exhausting.
One week later, it still hasn’t turned off.
CLICK HERE FOR FULL PRESS PHOTO COVERAGE, courtesy of Hireheels sugardaddy photog Rahim Kanani of Harvard Kennedy School of Government
[More reflections on CGI to come...]
on October 3rd, 2009 at 12:29 pm
good for you princess in glad you had a good & time & got 2 hang out a little with the big dawg
Thank BM! He definitely has the midas touch…it was an honor to be part of it. Hireheels was invited within the new media category
on October 3rd, 2009 at 1:25 pm
i was also at that event and was standing next to you as you spoke. keep up the great work. check out my Bill Clinton blog to promote his work
http://adugan-billclintonblog.blogspot.com/
on October 4th, 2009 at 11:33 am
sometimes ya just gota laugh
on October 4th, 2009 at 11:33 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cfk2UKewTU&feature=player_embedded
on October 5th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Great work, Princess. Loved the streaming media on the Splash!. I am so impressed you were approved to represent so many of us who would be voiceless without this “new media” category.
I have the same experience whenever I listen to Bill Clinton speak. I know I’m hearing brilliance, and it seems so clear, then when I try to talk to someone about it, his mind is working on so many levels there is no way to recapture the impact of his words.
on October 8th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
thank you back bay for your incredibly kind words….i have every woman (and man) I’ve ever met on our journey with me when I represent hireheels….we can and never will forget those days and how we got here
hope things are great in boston … miss you all! – princess
on October 9th, 2009 at 12:03 am
thanks to you Princess, for your kind wishes. The devoted koolaiders are still convinced there’s going to be single payer healthcare and war will end. What can I say? It’s beantown in the autumn, so it’s beautiful. Maybe they’re still looking through a rozy haze of gold and auburn leaves.
So sorry we couldn’t get together last year. Give me a buzz if you are in town and would like a Newbuary St coffee…life is quieter now, thankfully.
on October 9th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
…and for his work in arriving at the decision to name hillary “rennaissance” clinton US Secretary of State, I can congratulate O for the Peace Prize. well-earned!
on October 9th, 2009 at 4:05 pm
it’s just too unreal to even process. Not Bill? Not Hill? I will never have any respect for the Nobel Prize again. Don’t these folks on then Nobel panel watch SNL? Just one more instance of stuff coming to Obama, even he doesn’t think he earned it.
on December 1st, 2009 at 1:08 am
hey princess that a great vid of your of your journy is this past elect . we need to keep it up e-mail me when you have a chance