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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
When I first heard the speculation that Hillary Clinton might be the next Secretary of State, I thought it was a good idea. I did not support Clinton for the presidency but thought she could be a good Secretary of State. However, after the theatrics of the past few days, I am not really a supporter. The last thing we need is more drama, or narcissism. We need someone who loves his or her country, has knowledge of negotiation and other cultures, and wants to do the best thing for the American people.
Do you really accept anything either Clinton says as "merely saying"? They don't "merely" say or do ANYTHING ... Have you heard the verbal gymnastics her personal aides are going through today in their many interviews? Come on!
Allow me the freedom of thought, opinion and speech, to state my dislike and great distrust of the Clintons, especially Bill Clinton, and to respond to Joan Walsh's article...
I totally have faith in President elect Obama's thinking and reasoning abilities and yes, he has chosen wise advisors...but this back and forth crapola with the Clintons is ludicrous, a waste of precious time for the new team during a time of real national urgency, and serves only to feed famous previously mentioned EGOS!
I certainly would like to sit back, breathe deeply and rest assured that every little thing will work out wonderfully for the new Administration...but I, and millions and millions of others, feel deja vu right at the very time when what we want is a NEW scene...a NEW approach...
I am "scared" not for the future, but from the past....
http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/administrative-virtues-the-case-of-larry-summers/?ref=opinion
Never have we needed a Sec. of Treasury more who had people skills.
It should be Krugman. Sadly, he hasn't been mentioned much according to all those lame leaks.
Yes, you have a right to your opinion and I have every right to challege it.
What personal aides? Give me their names. Offer links in which personal aide who actually identify themselves mention the Clintons and the Sec. of State vetting. If they are merely going on record as to their support for Hillary for this position, then they are merely doing what you claim you have a right to do -- expressing their opinions.
Yes, you can go on and on about your suspicions, but in the face of a lack evidence, I have every right to discount your opinion, scared grandma. Nothing in Salon rules require that I have to offer your unsubstaniated fears my respect.
Krugman seems to me an obvious choice--or at least, an in-the-running consideration. I can't figure why his name isn't being bandied about. Maybe it's something from Krugman's end, e.g., no interest in the position. But even the idea of him hasn't gotten any major press.
I can only laugh at the squealing masses. I am not an American citizen but at this point, I wish I was. I would have voted for Obama had I been given the right but I do have a problem with the idea that the anointed one will be able to play Mr.Fix-It...
The pendulum swings in American politics.
We can only hope that TPE is less talk and more cock...
Thank you for adding so much useful input and derision into the current whirlwind of USA politics.
It could be because Krugman was so vocal about supporting Hillary's health care plan during the primary.
However, I would really love to see him as Treasury. I believe he is most a pragmatist and a leftist and he has excellent social skills.
With all these bailouts, the people who are not being bailed out are poor people and lower working class people. They will really hurt. I remember that Krugman -- remember the stimulus -- wanted to see some of it to go straight to increasing food stamps. Food stamps are essential to the working poor. They help keep them working and actually aid in keeping them off welfare. Moreover, they have to spend it so that it goes straight into the economy.
I don't know much about the economy, but the only people I see who have been bailed out thus far are rich, investment bankers. I would like to kick Paulson's ass. All that money -- no real oversight.
Chris Matthews said she won the Senate seat because her husband was disloyal to her. Now, he says she is being offered the SoS position to get her out of the Senate where she could cause mischief for Obama. Essentially, this guy needs to marginalize Hillary, no matter what.
Michele Bernard sounds like a high school girl deciding whether or not another girl should eat lunch at their table. She is very immature, holding on to primary rivalry, yet was very calm and agreeable that Obama met with McCain and may offer him something....
The person covering for Rachel Maddow last night played some soap opera music for her intro to this topic. The only people making this a soap opera is the media. The only people leaking info is the Obama team of youngsters who lack political maturity, apparently.
Did anyone doubt that it would not take an especially long vetting procedure to vet President Clinton's associations? He has not been sitting home reading; he has been raising money for AIDS, malaria, and other international good causes since the people abroad appreciate him and his wife far more than the people at home, whom he served with peace and prosperity.
Her seat in the Senate has been marginalized. Good ole boys who never spoke to health care have all surfaced suddenly as experts on the subject, waving their white papers on their plan; Kennedy who had 40 years to do it, Bachus (who is he anyway?), and Daeschle, the new expert who has written a book on it....strangely enough, they are all the Clinton plan. She has been taken out of that issue altogether. She may very well not get the SoS position with all the circus and hoopla and disrespect she has been treated with---again. All the speculation, such as from Friedman that she will not be speaking for the President, has just about nullified any impact or import she may have with her foreign missions.
I am thinking this was all a ruse to get her power she garnered in the primary marginalized and minimized. If she does get the position, I fear she will be kept "out of the loop" to such an extent that she cannot do her job.
I am growing very disappointed. I believe Obama could put a stop to this press trash talk if he wanted to.
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