Hillary Clinton:  What we’ve seen is this constant demand for attention, and maybe it’s the mother in me or the experience that I’ve had with small children and unruly teenagers and people who are demanding attention. Don’t give it to them. They don’t deserve it. 

Kim Jong Il, or rather North Korea’s foreign minister (and somehow I don’t feel guilty about personalizing a dictatorial government like that), from right here:  We cannot but regard Mrs. Clinton as a funny lady as she likes to utter such rhetoric, unaware of the elementary etiquette in the international community. Sometimes she looks like a primary schoolgirl and sometimes a pensioner going shopping.

This exchange is probably about as insignificant in the grand course of things as the recent Ron Paul — Sarah Palin flap.  Not only that, but it appears that the comedic gist of it is more or less over — at least on Hillary Clinton’s end.  Which may mean, depending on how you grade these things, that Kim Jong Il “won”.  After all:

All the people can perform astonishing miracles and feats when they wage a high-pitched drive, fully determined to demonstrate once again the spirit of heroic Korea before the enemies by bringing about a great surge on all fronts of socialist construction.
Rodong Sinmun Thursday observes this in a signed article.

How can we ever hope to compete with that?

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