Hillary. Really?!
They spent the spring bickering largely about foreign policy. Now Obama has picked Clinton to be his new Secretary of State.
What gives?
posted by The Blue Devil @ 5:32 PM
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Monday, December 01, 2008
They spent the spring bickering largely about foreign policy. Now Obama has picked Clinton to be his new Secretary of State.
What gives?
Lakenheath Old Boys
We are all former students at Lakenheath High School and other public schools in East Anglia. We were in school in the 70s and 80s and drank deeply from the well of British culture of those decades - the pints, the telly, and of course the footie!
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4 Comments:
Politics is what gives. There are still some mad old bats out there that want to strip some flesh off Obama because he had the temerity to run a more historical campaign than she did.
It also eliminates the kind of sniping from the floor of Congress that I think she's capable of making.
But it's a risky move. She's hashed up the Health Reform movement during Clinton1, and she ran a divisive, factional campaign. This speaks to a lack of managerial ability. Combine that flaw with the God-Knows-What-Bubba will do factor and yes, this is a damn risky move.
I'd have made her UN Ambassador and been done with any imagined obligation to throw her a bone.
I agree - very risky. Let me be clear about why I think so. It has nothing to do with all the blather in the media today about how this is a "betrayal" of the "change agenda." Nonsense. Obama was clear from the start of his political career that his version of "change" was a kind of post-partisan centrism, not progressive social change of the stripe that I'd like. Look at his speech at the 2004 DNC. One of the lines oft-repeated in the media and on the stump this year was about how we aren't a "red America" or a "blue America" but a "United States of America."
No, the problem with the Clinton nod is that she and Bill were the obvious model of 90s partisanship that Obama has continually railed about. Bringing her back into the fold just fires up the right-wing talk radio hacks in a way that Obama was trying to avoid. It just makes no sense at all.
And have you been watching the body-language between Barack and Hillary? This was on the front page of the WP. JFW.
click to view the sneer
Is Barack checking out Hillary's ass again? Honestly! He's got to watch himself.
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