Everyone is speculating about this big question and since it’s a little slow around here, I thought I’d ask what you guys thought. Here’s Pruden’s take:
Barack Obama is getting his first lesson in the on-the-job training course for the presidency. If he can stand up to Hillary Clinton and her sidekick, we’ll all feel a little better about his coming conversations with Vladimir Putin, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Kim Jong-il, with or without preconditions.
Henry Kissinger might be correct, that Hillary would make an “outstanding” secretary of state, that such an appointment would be an act of manly “courage” by the president-elect. He should know. “To appoint a very strong personality with an independent constituency into a Cabinet position,” he says, would be “a symbol of a new approach.” All perhaps true.
But “courage” is sometimes fool’s courage. Far back in another century Bubba warned us that he and the missus come bundled as one: “Buy one, get one free.” Mr. Obama himself no doubt knows this. When he was asked Sunday night on “60 Minutes” about the prospect of Hillary and Bubba moving in with the Obamas at the White House, he said the right things, but he looked like a man who had just learned that his mother-in-law is coming for Christmas to stay through the Fourth of July.
This is a headache he didn’t order and doesn’t deserve. The Hillary buzz has all the earmarks of something media-made, the inevitable work of aides, reporters and pundits with too much time on their hands and desperate for something to disturb the quiet tranquility of the morning after a long campaign.
Do you think it’s true that he’s considering her and do you think it’s a smart move? Or do you think that she’d be a little too dangerous to have around? Or would it be a smart way to neutralize her for 2012 (that’s Rush’s take)?
posted November 18, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Keep your friends close … and your enemies closer.
When Benedict was elected to the papacy, my small clique screamed, “NO!” But, there’s no going around the man, politically speaking. You gotta go through him. Same thing here, if you ask me.
Besides, I always knew Hillary would find a way to wedge in.
Now, if Obama could just find a position for McCain in his administration, won’t we all learn then to “get along?”
posted November 18, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Actually I think it would be a good idea, simply because it would keep Obama so busy trying not to be overshadowed that he would have less time to wreck anything. Sort of like the first Bush term when he was so busy with looking for terrorists under the bed that he did not have time to destroy the country.
posted November 18, 2008 at 3:54 pm
First of all, thank you for not suggesting that it’s presumptuous of the holder of the Office of the President-Elect to be considering who’s to be in his cabinet.
I’m with Moonshadow on this one. It makes sense to keep Hillary out of the country, don’t you think?
And if you’ll forgive an off-topic question, how did the Hebrew exam go?
posted November 18, 2008 at 5:52 pm
what was the hebrew exam
posted November 18, 2008 at 7:45 pm
Michelle asked us to pray for her Hebrew exam. I’m just following up to ask how it went.
posted November 18, 2008 at 11:47 pm
The Republicans will find something to complain about no matter who Obama chooses, so he might as well aim high and put her at State.
posted November 19, 2008 at 2:24 am
But for Obama’s phenomenal entry into the Presidential race, Hillary would probaby have been elected president today. It would then have been OK to have two presidents for the price of one!
But, when it comes to Secretary of state, do we consider that it is too important a post for two Clintons to handle?
Isn’t this a strange logic?