November 18, 2008 9:02 AM
Will Bill's deals scuttle Hillary's chance to be Secretary of State?
The biggest obstacle to Hillary Clinton becoming secretary of state could be her husband's foreign business dealings.
During her own White House campaign, the New York senator criticized China for its crackdown on protesters in Tibet and urged President George W. Bush to skip the Olympics in Beijing. Her campaign was embarrassed by reports that her husband's foundation had raised money from a Chinese Internet company that posted an online government "Most Wanted" notice seeking information on Tibetan human-rights activists that may have been involved in the demonstrations.Hillary Clinton has campaigned as a champion of workers' rights. This year, Brazilian labor inspectors found what they called "degrading" living conditions for sugar cane workers employed by an ethanol company in which Bill Clinton invested.
The idea of Clinton in the cabinet isn't playing so well in some quarters of Obamaland, reports Politico.
From his supporters on the progressive wing of the Democratic Party, to campaign aides of the soon-to-be commander-in-chief, there's a sense of ambivalence about giving a top political plum to a woman they spent 18 months hammering as the compromised standard-bearer of an era that deserves to be forgotten."These are people who believe in this stuff more than Barack himself does," said a Democrat close to Obama's campaign. "These guys didn't put together a campaign in order to turn the government over to 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" - enraging the former president in particular.
And the clearest opposition to the Clinton appointment comes from Obama's backers on the left of his own party, whose initial support for him was motivated in part by a distaste for the Clinton dynasty, and who now view her reemergence with some dismay.
The No. 2 Republican in the Senate says Clinton would be a good choice.
"It seems to me she's got the experience. She's got the temperament for it. I think she would be well received around the world," said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. "So my own initial reaction is it would be a very good selection."Both Clinton, Obama's fiercest rival for the presidential nomination, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who also ran for the White House this year, interviewed with Obama in Chicago last week for the post, according to Democratic officials.
Would Hillary be a good choice? Would President-elect Barack Obama be wise to include her in the cabinet? Or would he risk her pursuing her own agenda? And what about former President Clinton's presence?
November 18, 2008
10:08 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
AMERICA IS TIRED--FATIGUED--BY THE CLINTON SOAP OPERA.
Enough is enough.
November 18, 2008
10:13 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
AMERICA IS TIRED--FATIGUED--BY THE CLINTON SOAP OPERA.
Enough is enough.
November 18, 2008
10:15 AM
Shaggy writes:
I thought Obama said he was a new kind of Politician yet he seems to be embracing himself with career Politicians.
I just can't conceptualize the idea that Obama could actually be just another lying, cheating, in it for himself Politician.
I still want to be in denial and believe he is the messiah and will solve Aids, World Hunger and have Jews hugging Radical Islamics by the time he first steps into the oval.
Please say it isn't so Joe!!!
November 18, 2008
10:23 AM
JMH writes:
No NeoCons... America is tired of the failed policies and the constant lies & whinning from their narrow-minded footsoldiers...
America wishes we still had the Clinton's and the economy we had under them... you may want to say what you think America wants, but uh-oh... America just voted for what they wanted and it wasn't more of the NeoCons!
But I'll expect you NeoCons all to keep crying every step of the way! But the grown-ups are gonna fix some things... so go back in the basement and play with your blocks for awhile!
November 18, 2008
10:35 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
SO, IS AMERICA FINALLY GOING TO LEARN JUST HOW MUCH MONEY BILL REALLY TOOK FROM THE CHICOMS TO BANKROLL HIS MEMORIAL?
And when Obama finds out, then just watch him renege and do a 180 on any offers to Hillary--an embarrassment that is simply too big and filled with too many conflicts of interest and skeletons! That would be a world-class bagjob and KO of both Bill and Hillary!
The soap opera continues!
November 18, 2008
11:08 AM
SASQUATCH writes:
HOW DID OBAMA GET ELECTED ANYWAY? HERE'S HOW:
57.4% could NOT correctly say which party controls congress (50/50 shot just by guessing)
81.8% could NOT correctly say Joe Biden quit a previous campaign because of plagiarism (25% chance by guessing)
82.6% could NOT correctly say that Obama won his first election by getting opponents kicked off the ballot (25% chance by guessing)
88.4% could NOT correctly say that Obama said his policies would likely bankrupt the coal industry and make energy rates skyrocket (25% chance by guessing)
56.1 % could NOT correctly say Obama started his political career at the home of two former members of the Weather Underground (25% chance by guessing).
And yet…..
Only 13.7% failed to identify Palin as the person their party spent $150,000 in clothes on
Only 6.2% failed to identify Palin as the one with a pregnant teenage daughter
And 86.9 % thought that Palin said that she could see Russia from her “house,” even though that was Tina Fey who said that!!
Understand now? Did anyone see Mel Brooks' funny move "Spaceballs?" There is a scene in which Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis), while introducing himself to a his staff, a few of whom were named Asshole....to which Dark Helmet responded...."Another Asshole, I'm surrounded by Assholes!
November 18, 2008
11:28 AM
history buff writes:
Looks like we are getting the new talking points from the WACKO FRINGE. I like the one about affirmative action, as if a black person could not be that smart. I guess that is why Rushidi bin Limbo thinks black quarterbacks start in the NFL only for the ratings.
It is going to be very enjoyable to see the WACKOS continue to diminish in stature much like the Wicked Witch of West after Dorothy throws water on her person.
"You have destroyed my beautiful ugliness."
November 18, 2008
12:17 PM
SASQUATCH writes:
PICTURE OF "DARK HELMET" WITH LT. ASSHOLE
http://pictureposter.audiworld.com/39591/spaceballs.jpg
SURROUNDED!