Posted on 12/29/2007 1:34:05 PM PST by keepitreal
ABC News' Jonathan Greenberger reports: If she makes it to the White House, Sen. Hillary Clinton said today her husband will take on the same responsibilities as traditional presidential spouses, with no access to National Security Council meetings.
"I think he would play the role that spouses have always played for presidents," said Clinton, in an exclusive interview with ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "He will not have a formal, official role, but just as presidents rely on wives, husbands, fathers, friends of long years, he will be my close confidante and adviser as I was with him."
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I wonder how many past Presidents have relied on their husbands. Hillary makes it seem like it was a common practice! :0)
Bill Clinton has been making it pretty wink/nudge clear that he will be co-President again after his wife is elected. That’s the whole point to her campaign, that her election would be a restoration of the Clinton era. This bodes a constitutional crisis of the first order, and is the most compelling reason to defeat her, and him.
These people are on LSD.
Exactly...she is on very thin ice. But only if the press actually does its job and asks those questions.
Get serious, Mrs. Clinton’s only qualification is that she is a congenital liar!
More so. Mrs. Bush has a genuine southern accent, charm, is likely steely-eyed, and easy on the eyes. Plus: no cankles.
Such as looking the other way while the President gets serviced by young female interns. (It could happen.)
Kind of a modern day Rasputin.
Yeah, Bill would be busy with the intern program.
When the USSR shot down our U-2 in 1960, Kelly Johnson immediately realized we needed something higher and faster that no enemy could reach,! so the Skunk Works went back to the drawing board. The first flight was 22 months later. Try that today. We lost three out of 50 due to accidents. (One broke up after colliding with the drone it had just launched.) No enemy was ever able to touch it.
SecDef Robert McNamara ordered all the SR-71 manufacturing tools destroyed so he would have more tax dollars to waste on the F-111. In 1994 William Jefferson Clinton used line item veto to cancel all funding for SR-71s. They are now in museums. The pilots said that we really need that airplane today for reconnaissance over places like Iran, Iraq, Syria, Korea, China, Russia, etc. If it were not for Clinton, SR-71 would still be performing that reconnaissance today. The argument that satellites can do the job is not correct. Any school boy with a lap top can tell you when a satellite will be overhead, so the bad guys simply shut things down, and later restart them. On the other hand, the enemy never knows where or w! hen the SR-71 will suddenly appear out of nowhere.
At 80,000 feet the cameras can see 80 miles. From 20 miles off the coast, the airplane can photograph objects 60 miles inland. The requirement for a rock solid gyro stabilized camera platform was paramount. My favorite analogy was this:
Nail a four foot square sheet of plywood to the bottom of the airplane. Drill a quarter inch hole through the middle of it. Insert a quarter inch dowel that is 16 MILES long. Drag the dowel across the surface of the earth at 30 miles per MINUTE.
Program the camera to take one photo per second of a specified set of coordinates for four minutes, in order to examine the spot from all angles. Do this in such a way that all photos are crystal clear, with no blurring.
Pilots, who are not trained as photo interpreters, say they can read the photos easily. One pilot looked at an Infrared photo of a USAF base and immediately recognized the shadow (heat signature) of a spot where a B-52 had been parked one hour earlier.
Entertaining the wives of visiting delegations? Well, that's a given.
I’ve heard Hillary didn’t have security clearance to be in on NSC meetings. But did they attempt to get her clearance, and she failed ??
The presidential limousine does have a power sunroof, doesn’t it?
Heh, LOL
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Great Point! Oh, but she she did visit more countries than Barbra Streisand, which makes her more qualified then Barbra.
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