Five words: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
So say The Guardian and Drudge. I’m skeptical, but bracing for the worst.
Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.
Obama’s advisers have begun looking into Bill Clinton’s foundation, which distributes millions of dollars to Africa to help with development, to ensure that there is no conflict of interest. But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem.
Reader Mark M. writes: “I would rather see Hillary as Sec of State for 4 yrs than on the Supreme Court for life.”
Where do you think she should take her first diplomatic trip?
I vote Tuzla!
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Doesn’t the Sec of State have to actually DO WORK? I cannot picture the scenario where either of the Clintons actually perform WORK.
Keep you friends close and you enemies closer?
I am confused about what Hillary gets out of this. She will find herself at odds with Obama and get booted in a year or two, tops. Then she will have lost her Senate seat and destroyed any chances for her SCOTUS appointment.
The only person who wins is Obama who can now blame any failure in foreign policy on Bush or Hillary for years to come and destroy the one obvious rival to his power.
Think Madeline Albright…. I guess the Democrat requirement for the position is thick thighs and fat ankles with a socialistic brain…oooooh did I just say that? I’m a baaaaaad man.
I would love to see Hilldawg’s completed job application…
Hold your friends close and your enemies closer. Though it gives Sen Clinton a bigger stage but it gets her out of the Senate where she could cause problems. Time will tell if it was a good move or not.
Third place is better than nothing, right? She’ll take it. She has no other choice. The Clinton’s glory days are over. This is the only way for her to remain “relevant”. Otherwise, she’ll just be a senator who once ran for President who’s married to Bill.
She’s got bigger thighs than Albright.
Maybe the Hildabeast can get some more mileage out of the Hillacopter.
On the bright side, Hillary may be the only one Obama puts in the cabinet who has what Jesse Jackson wanted to cut off of him.
Wow didn’t know being a wife of a former president qualifies you for a job of this stature.
Foggy Bottom, meet big b…
Also,KFC wins too. They could run a Secretary of State special:
Two fat thighs
Two skinny breasts
And one left wing.
(I know it’s old, but it had to be said.
Wake me up when these four years are over.
And this is change?
More like chump change.
Speaking of which (whom?..whatever) has anyone made a bigoted, hateful, sexist reference to “Throwing the dog a bone” yet? Or am I the first?
OH THANK GOD!!!
I was terrified he’d dump her on the supreme court where she could do some real damage. As
holy missionarysecretary of state she’ll be busy spreading Obama’sgospelideology and the worst she can do is start wars and embarrass us – nothing a good Republican administration can’t fix.I guess as Obama searches the ranks of the Leftists for his cabinet he realized there is almost NOBODY who is LESS qualified than him so the field is pretty well open.
Do you think Monica Lewinsky will be nominated for Surgeon General? That way, Bill can still play “doctor” on the government dime while they socialize medicine….
In four years (actually, more like “in 4 months”) Americans will want to dump Obama. She’s putting herself in a “Colin Powell-Maverick” place, she “spoke truth to power” but “power” wouldn’t listen. If she gets booted -she warned them, etc. I think it’s a good place to position herself for some serious backstabbing and campaigning in 2012.
Well, if anything, the Democrats are proving experience isn’t necessary for at least two of the top three jobs in the country. At least Hillary has experience in dodging sniper fire, all Obama did was hang with people who planted bombs.
New junior Senator from the great state of NY? Caroline Kennedy.
Wow, all I see is change (sarcasm off)
I’m just wondering who Governor “Eagle Eye” Patterson will appoint to fill Hillary’s extra wide senate seat.
How about one of Elliot Spitzers old “Business Partners”?
That would be the best appointment, a madam to keep an eye on Media Whore Schumer.
Let’s try that again….
But, Hillary get’s co-opted as SecState and Obama’s failures become HER failures. It will be pretty hard to run against someone when he is blaming YOU for causing all the foreign policy problems you are pointing out.
I don’t see this as the smart move for her.
Wouldn’t it just be perfect if NY elected a Republican to replace her and from that election they would lose their 60 vote “super-majority” in the US Senate. Can’t wait.
Why not? Since qualifications to be in politics aren’t required anymore (Obama, Hillary, etc.) why not her? After all, she can easily ride in with name recognition alone. No experience required!
How easy was that?
We are stuck with Obama for awhile, and I think we could get worse than Hillary.
Schumer will ALWAYS be the junior senator from New York
Nancy-Harry-Hillary-Baracky
Lordy helpy me!
Does it get any worse than this?
I’m relieved it’s not Bill Ayers and relieved it’s not John Kerry.
I never thought I’d say it but after this last election drama, Hillary and Bill looked good to me.
He’s saving the SCOTUS slot for Lynne Stewart.
Off a short Pier with deep water at the end. Don’t fear the sharks they don’t eat their own.
BillyJeff is pushing this. He wants her out-of-town, on travel, a lot.
My collie says:
Janet Reno’s looking for a gig…
This is what Obama meant by having a bi-partisan cabinet.
I see your point, WE, and there is a risk. But I think Obama would look really silly trying to blame her for his decisions & actions. She already has a good sized powerbase and a gig as SOS just adds more gravitas. I’d agree with you if she personally did a major flub-up in an blatantly obvious way it wouldn’t help her.
The Clintons, and she certainly, have never acted outed of altruism, so if this is offered and she accepts, I tend to think she has something bigger in mind down the line before too long.
If Obama offers it he’s either an idiot or he’s following the old advice about “keeping your enemies near you”. Or, more likely, he’s both – an idiot who’s heeding advice to put a short leash on her.
But we will see, so far it’s just speculation.
I just wonder after Hillary’s first trip abroad spreading the Obama message her cry will be lyrics from a Warren Zevon song:
“Send lawyers, guns, and money….”
I really didn’t think it could get funnier. Ya gotta laugh to keep from cryin. Lets see Bloomberg could be in the senate and Spitzer to Mayor???????? With this group they just play for a while then trade off. Maybe McCain could actually do something.
I though Bills’ deals created a conflict of interest. You know. Spouse rights and all that just for the other party stuff.
Does Hillary still get to take Huma Abedin all around the world with her? Is the Obama
ministryadministration going to pick up the tab for her?Snort.
I really thought Reverend Wright or Father Pfelger would get SecState….
Maybe Obama will create a new cabinet level department to oversee religion.
Wouldn’t that put her out of the running in 2012?
I think she should go back to Arkansas on her first diplomatic trip. Kinda like this!
Not to make light of international relations, but there is a high entertainment factor here…can you even imagine the shenanigans Bill will get himself into? And the tap dancing Obama will have to do to deal with them?
Making popcorn now…
SoS Clinton would be a big win for the Oborgama because it would be a twofer deal. Both Bill & Hill would be out on the trail and out of his hair, at least as a starter. My guess, she’ll ‘retire’ in two years or less to start to work on 2012 election, sooner if Obama really messes up early.
I have never understood why people who can obviously afford to don’t get their teeth fixed.
In how many languages can she say, “I’m sorry”?
I thought Obama was against torture. Can you imagine having to sit across from her at a negotiating table for more than a few minutes! Oh, the humanity!! I’ll sign, I’ll sign.
My point exactly. She will not be able to campaign if she excepted SOS.
Yup. I should have made that point in my previous comments. You’ll never go wrong by asking “what’s in this for her?”, since that’s always been her motivation and M.O.. e.g. carpet-bagging to NY to be a Senator was just another rung in the ladder.
Huma Abedin….Yeah I’m gonna like this new Hillary gig if Huma gets some photo exposure. Let’s grab a lawn chair, some lemonade, and popcorn for this one ladies and gents.
At least Obama’s not offering the job to Ayers.
BTW it’s close to but not quite “carpet bagging” Bwahaaaaa!!!
Smart move by Obama. It would take Hillary out of the running for the next voting cycle.
I know it’s been said many times many ways, but anything, anything, to keep her off the Supreme Court.
Well, this may not be smart move for Hillary, but it could be good for Republicans. If she becomes Secretary of State and Obama’s administration proves to be a bust (which we all know it will), Republicans will have one less competitor to worry about in the 2012 presidential election.
I’m actually shocked she took the job. I figure her ego is too big, to simply follow in the footsteps of people like Mandeline Albright and Condi. Well, I guess the the position can be as big as the person filling the role, and what they make out of it.
Or it gives Hillary an opportunity to screw things up royally from the inside out. She’s privy to much more intelligence now. She could have a hand in making life hard for Obama in an international sense, and then swoop in to rescue in 2012 while resigning her post. It’s just a thought.
He’s saving him for Homeland Security, and Wright for Minister of Propaganda.
Somewhere Dick Morris is slobbering and blubbering into his pudgy little slimeball hands.
He has to reach out to the hispanics now, and pay back Richardson for the early endorsement. I don’t know what he has in mind, but it better be good.
I have always thought Dick Morris had a crush on Hillary. I think he turned on her when she rejected him.
Yeah, Tanya, if this does come to be there’s going to be a lot of imperial intrigue, the likes of which would make even Nero shudder.
But it will be fun to view the spectacle and comedians can recycle their Monica jokes, esp since jokes about Obama are verbotten.
Hey do you think that there is a chance for a Republican to run for the Senate seat in NY when Hillary takes this job?
I mean that could be the benefit to this stupidity.
My freshman English class began a unit on Animal Farm today. How much trouble do you think I would get into if I compared the pigs’ use of persuasion to fool the other animals to Obama’s campaign?
“But Democrats do not believe that the vetting is likely to be a problem.”
When is it ever for the Dims? Snort. Another Duh! moment.
This could have come to a grim end…three years later he’s found laying on a table in the White House…
BTW – I think her ego would like the fact she is THE Sec of State, and not the Junior Senator from ArkanYork
…well not a dozen eggs or anything, let’s make that lying…or, never mind…
Israel can’t be happy; First you have Hamas loving Obama, then comes terrorist Arafat loving Hillary; Pre-’67 borders just around the corner.
If Hilldabeast is to run in 2012 she will have to launch a primary campaign and form a committee at least six months before the start of the primaries. So, the longest she can be SecState is about 2 to 2 1/2 years.
I still don’t see the up side in this for her. I see a few reasons for Obama to choose her. Even the DailyKooks claim it is a “win-win” scenario but they fail to list one “win” for Hilldabeast.
I just don’t see being the “third female SecState” as being that big a deal. I suspect she will play this up and decline at the last minute. We should expect some drama.
When shrillery cackles…eggs will follow.
What do you guys have against Dick Moris?
Did I miss something?
I suspect that we will one day find out that Dick Morris offed Vince Foster when he found out Bill was paying him to “take care” of Hillary.
Jealousy can make a man crazy though I suspect Dick has been crazy longer than he has been jealous.
Could be, AlohaG, but it’s hard to think of her “settling” if she’s put within arm’s reach – “Ah come tew fahr from where I started from” and all.
I can’t wait to see the confirmation hearings: “Oh, and who are all those foreign interests your husband gets money from?”
Oh well, it won’t matter, conflict of interest doesn’t exist for democrats.
Looks like another Ron Brown world tour, apologising for America and signing up contributors at every stop.
If the offer were made I think that might be the wisest choice, WE. To be courted, but refuse. That way she could attack Obama unfettered over the next 4 years.
Things are so bad now and likely to get much worse I keep telling myself if true this might be good news. It’s easy enough to come up with plenty of names that are worse. We’re scraping the bottom here, folks, so best to be grateful for what we can get.
Those thighs may come in handy after all; She could put those foreign “heads” of state in a death grip as a new form of diplomacy!
That’s what I’m thinking.
Hillary is a known article with a built in fan base to rally and tap for cash. I think she could wait till the last minute, especially if she decides to run 3rd party.
However, I don’t think this will happen. Things would have to go horrifically wrong during Obama’s first term for her to risk her political future like that.
Although, Teddy K, came out pretty unscathed in 1980. I don’t know we’ll see. Either way things would have to go really, really bad for Obama for her to run in 2012.
Are you high? In that blue state? Well, maybe Rudy. But that’s as close as you’ll get.
SoCal said: (#27)
I reluctantly agree. I understand, trying hard to be fair, that as senator, HRC has been fairly good on constituent services (except for the military). I think she will try to do the job as Secretary of State well, if she accepts it, even if only to provide a platform or record for future ambitions.
Obama’s great personnel judgment continues to stupefy. This choice hasn’t got a thing to do with lifetime achievement—-because she has none.
If this lady is as productive at the Sec. of State post as she was as N.Y. Senator, it might be a plus for Conservatives.
She knows nothing about foreign affairs, and moreover I believe that she has very little interest in it as well. Her political grandstanding has always been solely targeted at acquisition of personal power, and nothing else.
I don’t think such a choice would bode well for relations between the state and defense departments (as if they were ever that great.) I’m also predicting that Major General Barbara Fast will get one of the intelligence directorships (NSA most probably), which will be… interesting.
Can’t be that bad. Hillary brought about the Republican takeover in the House. How about an encore?!?!
RE: Foggy bottom.
Someone oughta suggest to her Thighness to try beano.
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No matter how many times I say it I don’t believe it….
No, but she did stay at a Holiday Inn Express once!
Maybe Secretary of State is the perfect position for Hillary to surface evidence that Obama is not a Natural Born citizen…
Nothing says she can’t spend six months at State and then float onto the SCOTUS. Think of it as a reverse Arthur Goldberg, only he was foolish enough to take the UN.
Where’s all this change I kept hearing about from Odumbo? Don’t tell me he was lying to us?
Fo Shizzle yo, Hillzilla as SOS fo rizzle?
How weird is that? We’ve come to a position where we are looking to Hillary to save us from Obama. I’m with you, brother (sister?)!
There is a term for you guys that is a variant of one you all like to use: ODS–Obama Derangement Syndrome. You are running the risk of becoming totally irrelevant for the next four years.
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If we all have ODS now we will be half-way to a full blown case of liberal lunacy deficiency four years from now.
Why should anyone be worried about a Marxist with delusions of grandeur, no experience, dangerously naive about national security and absolutely against preserving the US Constitution?
Yes, we all(you too) risk becoming irrelevant in the coming years, but not for the reason you state!
When he states a position I can support he can count on me to back him up but so far I haven’t seen or heard of any!
Heh.
I’m hoping Imjustsaying doesn’t comeback with “other than that….”!
We’ve got a left-wing rookie as President, with no experience. It doesn’t surprise me that he would want someone like him…a left-wing rookie with no experience. World leaders and, especially our enemies, will love it!
Lie down with dogs,
get up with fleas.
Dick Morris would still be shilling for the Clintons if they hadn’t crapped on him publicly-twice.
Fox is foolish enough to pay him
to gossip about them. He hasn’t revealed the good stuff yet- scared for his life, you know how those Clintons are- Bang!!!
Good morning folks;
The older I get the more I become disappointed with the value systems of our representatives. Before I sold my last business I discovered that it was better to hire people with integrity than those of experience with no moral compass. I afraid we’ve just elected a president without either.
She’ll do a better job than Powell did. She still has her eyes on the Presidency so she’ll be the farthest right-leaning Sec. of State we’ve had in years; tho not far enough, I fear. I would have bet the farm that she would turn this down and Obama would offer it to Powell.