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Let's take a trip back in time but not too far! Hillary who chose to ignore her husband's adultery time and again was pelted with tomatoes and taunts of Monica just three months ago.

A U.S. secretary of state arrives in a Middle Eastern country, and she’s greeted by chants of the name of the young woman her husband had a liaison with as president. Tomatoes and shoes are thrown at her motorcade, too.

But sometimes reality beats television for drama.

Indeed, Egyptians yelled “Monica, Monica,” at Hillary Clinton on Sunday in Alexandria, where she was attending the opening of a U.S. consulate.

For a minute, you have to reach back into the memory bank to remember Monica Lewinsky and  Bill Clinton’s impeachment . The Clintons have come such a long in way in re-inventing themselves and rescuing their legacies from the scandal-ridden 1990s.

In Egypt, Clinton reaffirmed Washington's "strong" support for Egyptian democracy, and met with newly-elected President Mohamed Morsi. The Egyptian protests came amid suspicions that Washington meddled in the election, even if Morsi, a candidate from the Muslim Brotherhood, wouldn’t have been America’s first choice.

Despite the protests, Clinton is on top of the world these days. She’s on a 13-day tour of Europe, the Middle East and Mongolia. She has addressed Syria while in Geneva, greeted troops in Kabul and b ecome
Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi walks with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton to a meeting at the Ministry of Defense on Sunday. (Brendan Smialowski - AP) the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Laos in 57 years.

Her life has inspired  a primetime television , miniseries that’s essentially an extended campaign commercial urging her to run for president in four years — and it doesn’t hurt to have statuesque Sigourney Weaver portraying her.

Mitt Romney is even using her  in a campaign ad attacking her current boss, President Barack Obama. The ad’s narrator says, “Just like he did against Hillary Clinton, President Obama now continues to spread dishonest attacks about Mitt Romney to distract from his failed record.”

The fact that the Egyptians even uttered the “M” word only makes Hillary fans more rabid. The social media fan pages continue to pop up along with the occasional meme with Hillary “saying” something oh-so-witty in them. Other memes feature images of Hillary with captions such 
An Egyptian protester outside the U.S. Embassy in Cairo. (MOHAMMED HOSSAM - AFP/GETTY IMAGES) as “America’s Rock Star.”

A picture of her, carefree and laughing at a meeting in Cambodia last week, also went viral, with some blogs hosting caption contests for it. She’s having such a good time lately that last month, she donned  Mardi Gras cat-eye sunglasses at a swearing in ceremony at the State Department. At this point in her life, it would take more than a few vegetables lobbed in her direction to rattle her.

Suzi Parker is an Arkansas-based political and cultural journalist and author of “Sex in the South: Unbuckling the Bible Belt.” Follow her on Twitter at @SuziParker