As country reels in response to Benghazi attacks Hillary serves as source of strength.

Courtesy of the Daily Beast:  

By 7:30 a.m. in Washington on Wednesday, Sept. 12, an alert was transmitted to senior officials that four Americans had been killed in the stunning assault, including Stevens. As employees streamed into Foggy Bottom, they began trading stories about Stevens and the other victims. “People were heartsick,” recalls a senior official who had worked on Libya’s governmental transition with Stevens. “What was so tragic was that Chris thought he had succeeded, and that the hard part was over.” Soon after arriving that morning, senior officials, many of whom had worked closely with Stevens, received a briefing on the assault. When the briefer described the discovery of the ambassador’s body at the hospital, one woman began to weep. Several people at the meeting got out of their chairs, bringing her tissues. “It was an overwhelming moment,” recalls one participant. “These were some of the people who appointed him to his job.” 

Through it all, Hillary Clinton was a source of strength for her wounded department, employees say. She moved back and forth between public appearances and private internal diplomacy, showing her trademark combination of resolve, empathy, and hyper-competence. She began at State, looking drawn but determined, calling the events in Benghazi “an attack that should shock the conscience of people of all faiths around the world.” Later that morning she stood by President Obama at the White House, looking alternately stoic and stricken. Then the president and his secretary of state traveled to Foggy Bottom where they met with shocked employees. Those who saw Clinton in action this week say it was in the more private, intimate moments where she was at her best. 

That day, Clinton called to console the grieving relatives of the victims, including Stevens’s sister and Smith’s wife. Later she held a video conference with the shell-shocked staff of the embassy in Tripoli. “It was tearful and incredibly moving,” according to one source who declined to provide further details out of respect for those who were still absorbing the trauma that had befallen their embassy. “But it was an inspirational moment that made me, once again, proud to work for Hillary.”

There has been much talk lately about Hillary and the 2016 race. 

I think that her performance during this crisis and her unselfish support for the President during this terrible ordeal has cemented her place at the top of the list if she should so desire to run.

And I am pretty convinced that the President could not have been more pleased to have her by his side when his own strength and resolve were running on empty. A situation that could not have been helped by the irrational and indefensible attacks that came his way almost immediately from the Right Wing and Romney campaign.

Personally I hope she DOES run just so I can watch the GOP suffer another humiliating defeat, this time at the hands of the wife of the man they railroaded through impeachment.