Hillary Clinton is earning some notoriety among web trolls today as a video makes its way around the circuit of her apparently catching a few z’s during President Obama’s speech in Myanmar on Monday.
The president was the first American leader to visit Myanmar, as well as Cambodia, and gave an inspirational speech to the audience at the University of Yangon. “You’re taking a journey that has the potential to inspire so many people,” Obama said.
Apparently, jet-lag was enough to keep the Secretary of State a little sleepy during the oration, as it appears she nodded off for a moment.
On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama on Monday paid the first visit by an American leader to Myanmar and Cambodia, two Asian countries with troubled histories, one on the mend and the other still a cause of concern.
However, as the president addressed a crowd at Myanmar’s University of Yangon on Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, sitting in the crowd, seemingly fell asleep in the middle of his speech.
Further, Obama’s speech, given in the middle of the day, wasn’t exactly exhilarating. “You’re taking a journey that has the potential to inspire so many people,” Obama said during a speech at Myanmar’s University of Yangon.
Obama’s visit to Myanmar was also viewed critically by some international organizations, which saw the trip as a premature reward for a country that still holds political prisoners and has been unable to contain ethic violence.
Aware of that criticism, Obama tempered some of his praise for Myanmar during his six-hour visit.
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