Clinton's global listening tour

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Clinton's global listening tour

Secretary of State aims to repair America's image abroad

By Glenn Kessler
WashingtonPost.com
updated 1 hour, 10 minutes ago

SEOUL, South Korea - Hillary Rodham Clinton has a new campaign and message: The United States wants to listen.

To that end, on her first overseas trip as secretary of state, Clinton is talking a lot. Her schedule is packed with so many town halls, ceremonial events, television shows and meetings with community leaders that it has the feel of a presidential visit — or even a presidential campaign.

Before departing tropical Indonesia on Thursday for snowbound Seoul, Clinton carved out an hour to chat with the Muslim nation's president. But she also appeared on a highly popular youth television show, "Dahsyat" ("Awesome"), met with a group of Indonesian journalists, answered questions on a radio program and went on a campaign-style walk through a lower-middle-class neighborhood, where she studied recycling efforts as hordes of Indonesians gathered around her. "I love your hat," she called out to a man in a New York Yankees baseball cap.

There is a hunger for the United States to be present again," Clinton told reporters as she flew to Seoul. "Showing up is not all of life — but it counts for a lot."

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