Hanging with Clinton and Mandela

Salon's Joe Conason says hi from South Africa

By Steve Kornacki

Published June 25, 2010 3:40PM (EDT)

Joe Conason, former President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela
Joe Conason, former President Bill Clinton and Nelson Mandela

It's not quite a postcard, but Salon's Joe Conason is spending the week in South Africa with Bill Clinton (they already went to a soccer game together) and has sent this picture along. You can probably guess which one Joe is.

Update: Salon's Rebecca Traister was in South Africa with Clinton in 2007 (she was reporting on his post-White House work) and posed for an eerily similar picture:

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By Steve Kornacki

Steve Kornacki is a national political correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. Previously, he hosted “Up with Steve Kornacki” and was a co-host on MSNBC’s ensemble show “The Cycle.” He has written for the New York Observer, covered Congress for Roll Call, and was the politics editor for Salon.

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