Posted on 11/26/2008 8:15:51 PM PST by neverdem
Amid the blizzard of résumés blanketing Washington as the Obama era dawns, there is a superbly qualified candidate for full employment whose name has been overlooked. We refer, of course, to William Jefferson Clinton, America's 42nd chief executive and commander in chief. Yet now, by a wonderful combination of circumstances, comes an opportunity to harness his unquestioned political talents to benefit his country, the Democratic Party, New York state and his spouse. If, as is expected, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes secretary of state, New York Gov. David Paterson could send her husband to the U.S. Senate.
Doing so would spare the governor the agonizing dilemma of choosing from the 20 or so Democrats already named as contenders for the junior senator's seat. Those mentioned include six sitting members of the House of Representatives (three of each sex), Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, Caroline Kennedy and her cousin Robert Kennedy Jr., Buffalo Mayor Byron Brown (an African American), and Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión Jr. (who is Hispanic). In this no-win competition, Paterson has to balance claims of gender, race, ethnicity and geography. He could wind up gaining one grateful ally while alienating not only all the losers but also millions of members of the disparate constituencies that each represents.
Hence the appeal of Bill Clinton. Who in his party could question so historic and dazzling a choice? In a stroke, the appointment would provide Sen. Clinton's indefatigable husband with a fitting day job, serve the interests of a state beset by a meltdown in its most vital economic sector and offer a refreshing reverse twist on a tradition whereby deceased male senators, representatives or governors are succeeded by their widows.
It wouldn't be the first time an emeritus U.S. president was sent to Congress. In 1828, John Quincy Adams, like...
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No, let’s put him out to stud.
he’d do both
I think Michelle-Omarosa should take Hillary’s NY Senate seat.
Where’s Spitzer’s hooker?
The entertainment value alone with make me root for this..
but Billy is making far too much money working shady deals with third world dictators on behalf of corporate interests. he wouldn’t be interested.
well think of it this way. what was the point of bringing hillary into the cabinet? so that she wouldn’t be an opposition in the Senate? Bill would give obama a lot of grief.
hey, if it’s going to be a democrat anyway...
I missed this column. Was it in the Book Review’s “Fiction” section?
Can’t we just be done with these Clinton people?
At least she's an honest whore.
Who are these kool-aid drinkers
Geniuses.
Fixed it...
Oh please take Byron Brown, we’d love to share the a$$ with the rest of NY.
Chuck Schumer’s going to love this...
My sentiments exactly.
I have a better idea. Send the POS to jail!
Please God let this be just a rumor. I cannot take any more Bill Clinton lip-biting crapola.
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