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Clinton back in the White House
Hillary Clinton has accepted Obama’s offer to serve as the next Secretary of State.
Clinton would be well placed to become the country’s dominant voice in foreign affairs, replacing Condoleezza Rice. Since being elected senator for New York, she has specialised in foreign affairs and defence. Although she supported the war in Iraq, she and Obama basically agree on a withdrawal of American troops.
Heck, that’s better than playing Vice President!
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I said before, I think she’s making a mistake. She serves at the pleasure of the president. Obama will keep her long enough to prevent any challenge in 2012, then dump her. in the Senate, she could take Ted Kennedy’s place, the “Grand old lady of the Senate”. OTOH, maybe she wanted to avoid that.
Mabye Bill can help her. Again, we get two for the price of one.
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As I previously mentioned, the more things ‘change’, the more they remain the same. Is there really not a better candidate for Secretary of State?
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We as believers should pray for her and respect the position she will hold.
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Joe B., you are right.
But still suppose I’m some foreign potentate waiting on the tarmac, watching Madame Secretary and her hubby descend from the aircraft. What will I be thinking about her? About them? About the president who sent them to see me, the Most Highly Exalted Poohbah-for-Life of Crapistan?
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Well now… I wonder if her duties will include really dodging bullets after landing in other countries?
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Thanks for the reminder, Joe B.
I suppose no matter who is nominated a better candidate could always be found, but I doubt she’s less qualified than is the norm for SecState nominees. The Senate foreign-relations/defense experience counts for something, and while her experiences as First Lady were a bit, um, oversold during her presidential campaign, they are still useful.
I agree with the columnist who wrote that she wasn’t interested in the Senate for the Senate’s sake, but more as a staging area for a presidential run. Now that another run is possibly four but much more likely eight years off, she might as well burnish her foreign policy credentials with a plum Cabinet assignment and see what happens next.
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA A A A A A A A A A R R R R R R R GH!!!
Please say it ain’t so, Joe…….
Folks, let’s be brutally honest about Mrs. Clinton. When she beat Rick Lazlo for her first term, she was using that victory as her first stepping stone to returning to the White House in any possible way. She is a control freak. However, not that she actually has experience where needed, I have to give her props for accepting this assignment. I actually think she’ll do ok in the Hussein administration.
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D’OH! That’s what I get for typing too quickly without being fully awake. The above comment should have read: However, SINCE she actually has experience where needed……..
ooooooooh….I hate mornings. They come way too early in the day for me.
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I read something last night (can’t remember where) that said Obama was following the adage of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”.
How can Hillary upstage him as Secretary of State? If she becomes too critical, he can always fire her, er, excuse me, accept her resignation.
If Hillary still wants to be president (don’t we all think she does?), she would have a better chance running for governor of NY first.
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SNL writers are breathing a big sigh of relief. They now have two targets – Biden and Clinton – for the new administration. That’s enough fodder and should allow the SNL writers from having to lampoon the Chosen One.
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Scott,
I think you are right when you say, I read something last night (can’t remember where) that said Obama was following the adage of “keep your friends close and your enemies closer”.
I also think this is a very wise strategy, and that I like the choices Obama is making so far. It is a page out of Abraham Lincoln’s playbook, as Obama has mentioned from one of his favorite books, Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book A Team of Rivals going back over six months ago.
We may see a cabinet driven more by competency and willingness to speak up, than by ideology.
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Now let’s see if McCain accepts the Sec of Defence position. Obama wants him to accept it so the Lesbian Democratic Governor of AZ can replace him in the Senate with a Democrat. If McCain says no, then Obama will crucify him the press and the Gay Governor will get an Obama spot in his administration. We would be rid of her finally since the new Governor would be a Republican and we would like to get rid of McCain too but would hate for him to give the Democrats the Senate on a plate because he is old and can’t think straight.
McCain is caught between a rock and a hard spot as usual.
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I have trouble comprehending how Clinton would want to take this position. I would have thought that, as Chas noted, if the presidency is not to be hers, the role of old powerbroker in teh senate would be a loftier position (and it would be essentially a lifelong tenure given teh demographics of New York).
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8 hours after first posting, no confirmation of this from any MSM. And the Guardian report is only that she is “planning to accept” which is different from “accepting” an offer that may or may not have been made. Yet HSK/WMB reports the whole thing as being a done deal.
Is this the kind of reportage that gives blogs a bad name?
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As Arcadia posted, there is “NO CONFIRMATION” of this from any news source.
This is very premature, if indeed its going to be a reality.
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Point taken, Arcadia–this is what comes from trying to be the first to “break” the story.
My Democratic insider relative tells me Senator Clinton probably will not run again run for president, “Didn’t you see how beaten up she looked at the end? It’s not worth it to her.”
This is the same relative who told me why Obama was such a poor choice, and who still feels that way even though she voted for him and raised money for his campaign. Politics makes such odd bed fellows.
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Michelle,
I agree with you that I don’t expect her to run again. She doesn’t like losing. Few candidates in recent years have entered the primaries a second time (Reagan the only exception I can think of, and of course the system worked a little differently then). Plus, Americans don’t tend to like old women, and she’s already 60; I think this was her one and only chance, and she lost it.
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Entering primaries the second time? At least two:
John Edwards
John McCain
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Agreed that she’s done seeking the White House. She’s actually just had her 61st birthday. So, if she takes the SecState job, she can’t publicly complain about BHO and seek the nomination in her 65th year. Whether BHO wins a second term or not, she wouldn’t run before 2016, twenty-six years and six presidential terms since Bill ran as a “New Democrat.” Cheryl’s right about old women, and a 69-year-old Hillary is unlikely to appear to many voters.
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Chas, that’s true, and I wasn’t discounting them. I was discounting anyone who fought all the way to the end, and lost, and entered again. There were rumors this time around that Al Gore would run again, and I rather figured he wouldn’t. Two reasons come to mind: The process is brutal, and “worth it” only if you win. Second, America likes underdogs, but doesn’t like actual “losers,” so a person who made it nearly to the end, and came in second, is old news and unlikely to make more momentum the second time. (Palin may not have a chance at the presidency for this reason–but since she ran as VP and since she’s so young, she could gain experience and run. I don’t want to see her run, but I think she could.)
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