A few weeks ago Newsweek featured a cover story on Hillary Clinton. The cover line asked, "What sort of decider will she be?" It's still hard to answer that question, but Jonathan Darman's piece does feature this hilarious pseudo-scoop:
Each weekend [Clinton] pores over "weekly reports" prepared by her legislative office in Washington and her constituent office in New York. The reports are eight to 40 pages and range from updates on pending legislation to responses to Clinton's "Dear Colleague" letters to the names of New Yorkers killed that week in Afghanistan or Iraq. Reading the reports on airplanes or at home in Washington or Chappaqua, N.Y., Clinton marks up the margins with comments: "Great work," or "Let's discuss," or "Is it resolvable?" Once Clinton has finished marking up the reports, she gives the completed copies to her executive assistant, who makes a PDF and distributes it to the senior staff. Aides view the musings in the margins as windows on the senator's mind.
Newsflash: Hillary Clinton marks up the margins of staff reports. She knows how to tell someone else to make a PDF! Now that's leadership.