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Hillary Clinton For Secretary of State, Why
November 17th, 2008
I’m distraught at the notion that Hillary Clinton might be choosen for Secretary of State. Out of a number of good candidates, why her?
Hillary Clinton’s fan site Hillbuzz writes:
The NY Times article above basically says what we thought about this yesterday: that it makes no sense for the Obama camp to be floating Clinton’s name without wanting her for the Secretary of State position, because if they did this and then instead gave the job to Bill Richardson, it would achieve nothing but infuriating Clinton’s half of the Democratic party. So, the NY Times believes Obama really wants her for the position — and they also believe Clinton wants the job.
Here in Chicago, things are still evenly split amongst Clinton supporters as to what people want Clinton to do — but since the “trial balloon” launched Friday on all of this has not been shot down, more and more people believe Clinton will take the Secretary of State position.
I was looking forward to the demise of Clinton power within both the party and the greater body politic; not for them to be reward for Hillary’s race baiting and dishonest campaign.
Further, how is she going to be his secretary of state when she doesn’t even slightly agree with him on foreign policy strategy, and spent months excoriating him and his policy? How does she go out and defend his Pakistan policy, especially to the Pakistanis when they are increasingly becoming angry with American incursions into Pakistan, when she made such a negative case against the policy of strategic attacks in Pakistan.
Then, one of the couple of main reasons consideration of Hillary for VP didn’t go past the preliminary stages was because she refused to turn over Bills financial and business records (because he’s been dealing with some shady international characters that he doesn’t want to go on the record about), so what’s changed on that front now?
Which actually leads to the next point? He’s going to trust her? Did he buy all the friendliness on the campaign trail when she campaigned for him. Look, the Clinton’s still have their daggers cuffed in their sleeves, and they’re just waiting for a strategic opportunity to plunge knife into back.
She still wants to be president, she hasn’t given up on that dream. He best chance is a failed Obama president, where she can pull Ted Kennedy in 4 years and hope to successfully unseat the president as the democratic nominee.
Clinton retreads in technocratic positions is one thing. Actual Clintons in major cabinet leadership positions, come on!
I had my tap shoes already to tap dance on their political grave on January 20th.
Hillary Clinton Asks To Be Called Administrative Professional of State
As Administrative Professional of State, Hillary will be expected to take dictation.
The Obama administration said that an initial offer to tap Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State has been rebuffed… with prejudice.
Loretta Partridge, spokeswomyn for Hillary Clinton, said that a title change would be necessary before she would consider the job. According to Partridge, the term, “secretary.” is demeaning to women and men who look like women.
“We’ll bargain with Columbia,” said Partridge. “But we aren’t going to make Obama’s coffee.”
Clinton would consider a “Administrative Professional of State” position, or even an ”Executive Assistant of State” gig.
The Obama transition team is considering the new title, but is also looking for other options, said Jerrick Feedenhoser, who is vetting candidates for the Office of President Elect.
“We’re also looking at Bill Richardson,” said Feedenhoser. “He takes pretty good dictation.”
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I think that her being in the cabinet is a way of keeping your enemies close. Think about it. GW made it unthinkable that anyone would vote for Condoleeza or Cheney for president. Her being in the cabinet ties her closely to the success of the team. If she undermines or sabotages him it looks bad on her record as well. This is also still building a stronger party. If we dwell on things said during primaries we will not be able to move in a positive direction as a country
I agree with Silver. Granted, I may like other candidates or choices for the job, and she didn’t “seemed” to agree on anything: She had the same bomb-bomb-bomb Bomb-Bomb-Iran policy, however, she’s not going to make any decision without Barack’s ok.
It may say that Barack is trying to truly put together a coalition of differing opinions. He may be trying to solve all the divisive behavior that has been apart of politics the last 35-40 years.
I give him credit, it’s a bitch to play nice to ex-rivals. But the philosophy is often a hallmark of great leadership.
The guy may be 3-4 chess moves ahead of all of us - he better be - and we just don’t know the entire plan.
She still has to accept…puts her in a box.
Silverback, I hear what you’re saying, and I’d thought of the keeping your enemies close thing; but I just don’t think it overrides my issues with it, particularly the part where you get rewarded for the atrocious behavior that Clinton displayed in the primaries.
For me it’s not a matter of dwelling on it, in the sense that you have open hostilities; but when you reward someone for playing dirty, you’re encouraging people to play dirty.
Also there’s a couple of things to understand about cabinet positions, and this applies especially to secretaries of state and defense (and attorney general for that matter). Yes, they “serve at the pleasure of the president” but they have a certain amount of independent power and cache’.
I heard very good discussion the other day about the problems with someone like Hillary bringing their own independent power base to the position. You can look at Colin Powell for instance, the Bush white house was scared during the selling of the Iraq war that if Powell wasn’t on board, he had the power to shut down that build up because of his own personal cache’ and independent influence. Which is why I hold him responsible for the war because he knew better and went along with it anyway, when he really had the power to stop it politically.
“she’s not going to make any decision without Barack’s ok”
See Jason, we don’t know that.
As I was noting above, the Secretary of State is not some supervised position like the database administrator in a cubicle. There’s all kinds of problems a SoS can cause with strategicly placed public states, comments to world leaders, or with insider maneuvering.
The argument is that we can trust Hillary. But I don’t trust her, I don’t trust her as far as I can throw her. Actually I’ve stood feet away from her and she’s a small woman; so I don’t trust her even as far as I can throw her.
I didn’t vote for Barack because I wanted Hillary Clinton. If I wanted Hillary Clinton I would have voted for Hillary Clinton.
“It may say that Barack is trying to truly put together a coalition of differing opinions. ”
Sure, but he needs a different, different opinion. She can stay right down the street at the capital and he can take her opinion all day without our her being SoS. Nice gester, I still don’t like it practically.
“The guy may be 3-4 chess moves ahead of all of us - he better be - and we just don’t know the entire plan.”
Let’s hope so. I did her the hypothesis that by making her apart of his cabinet it would neutralize her trying to run against him in four years. Sounds pretty good, I just don’t know if that would stop her if she sees an opening. But it does make it hard to run against policy and an administration you just got through working for.
Still don’t like it though!