More chatter on Secretary of State

November 19, 2008

Investors Business Daily: But on the whole, if she focuses solely on the job, she has real potential to do good work for the next president. She's tough. She knows the players, she grasps national security and she's popular. If she is named, let's hope that her strengths will shine through, and the country will be served first.

Politico's BEN SMITH:
Democrat close to Obama campaign:

"These are people who believe in this stuff more than Barack himself does. These guys didn't put together a campaign in order to turn the government over to the Clintons."

How much faith do barry's minions have in his ability to lead the world if they think he can't control "The Clintons"?

An overlooked theme in Obama's primary victory was his belief that the Clinton legacy was not, as the Clintons imagined, a pure political positive. The Obama campaign had no compunctions about poking holes in that legacy and even sent out mailings stressing the downside of the last "8 years of the Clintons".

It's nice (shocking, really) to see someone finally acknowledge that barry's campaign was far from clean and state out loud why Mr Bill was not pleased. (Besides the fact that barry refused to call him.) It's unconscionable for a rookie to come in and attack the previous democratic president. Worse - the pro-obama media never mentioned it as it was going on. barry was attacking and implicating Sen Clinton in her husband's administration at the same time he was saying she did nothing and can't claim experience because of it. Where was the media reporting on this? Smith just proved he knew what was going on and said nothing. More proof of pro-obama media bias from their own obamerized mouths. Can't even keep track of it all.

MR SMITH - THE FACT YOU USED THE WORD "OVERLOOKED" MEANS YOU KNEW ABOUT IT AND CHOSE TO NOT REPORT ON IT. YOU ARE AS CORRUPT AS THE REST OF THE PROOBAMEDIA. CONGRATULATIONS. I LOOK FORWARD TO MORE ADMISSIONS.

ROBERT KUTTNER (Clinton hater who has slithered out to hawk his new book on barry.) wants barry to go back to his liberal roots. Never gonna happen folks. He'll be in the middle to avoid having to act.

"There's always a risk of a Cabinet member freelancing and that risk is enhanced by the fact that Hillary has her own public and her own celebrity and that she comes attached to Bill. The other question is the old rule - never hire somebody you can't fire. What happens if her views and his views don't mesh? The silver lining, for those of us who are skeptical, is that it drastically limits the number of other Clinton administration alums that he can appoint, and that's a blessing.

How does that limit anything? Already 1/2 of his appointments are ex-Clinton people. Why do these folks still believe barry is going to do anything he promised? What were they watching as he gradually crept toward the center during the primaries and sprinted towards it in the general election?

BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT):

"Sen. Clinton is one of the brightest people in Congress and she would be an excellent choice."

More truth from Smith:

"During the primary, top aides like David Plouffe and Robert Gibbs developed a particular distaste for all things Clinton, one that filtered down through the campaign."

Obama source:

"During the campaign there was a lot of agreement and correspondence about how the grassroots felt about the Clintons and how the Obama leadership felt. There's a bit of a divergence now. They're confused that the guy they elected . . . because we need to go in a different direction on the world stage" might choose a secretary of state with whom he had some of his sharpest foreign policy disagreements during the primary campaign.

Confusion is only the beginning. And what does it say when his own people are being surprised by him.

Obama insider: "I can't stand her - but I think she's a great choice."

Someone involved in the process: "It's not like he hedged his bets in conversation with her - he offered her the job. "