Posted on 11/14/2008 1:14:27 PM PST by jessduntno
Hopefully, it's just a rumor started by the Clintonistas, but is Barack Obama seriously considering appointing Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State? If he pulls the trigger on that appointment, he will deserve what he gets!
Obama would do well to remember the history of Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes in 1944. Byrnes, known as the "assistant president" in FDR's third term, was widely thought to be Roosevelt's choice to replace Henry Wallace as his running mate on the 1944 ticket. At the last minute, FDR re-considered and decided Byrnes, a South Carolinian, was too conservative and went with Truman instead. But the Democratic Party establishment clearly was disappointed. While they wanted to get rid of the almost-Communist Wallace, they wanted Byrnes not Truman. (Just like the party establishment really wanted Hillary, not Obama, to be the presidential nominee).
So Truman named Byrnes to be his Secretary of State after he took office on Roosevelt's death in 1945. Byrnes, who thought he should have been president, proceeded to make his own foreign policy. He flew to a meeting in Europe with the allied foreign ministers and barely kept President Truman posted on the deliberations. He became a loose cannon who thought he was the president. After a year of this nonsense, Truman fired him and brought in George Marshall to take the job.
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Go Hillary Go!
interesting!
I wonder how the anti-war moonbats will react to Hillary the war-monger if she becomes Sec of State? She did vote for the Iraq War.
Change you can laugh at.
Of course the fact that Hillary hates him more than she hates Jews may be an obstacle. Besides, I read somewhere that Obama wanted that ROCK, Warren Christopher.
Obama was running on change? Now he wants to bring back all the old cronies? That’s not change, that’s going backwards.
Dick was probably first on Hillary’s list to invite until he went and said this. LOL!
Well, I hate to say it, but she’d probably be better than Lurch.
Which is saying next to nothing. They both voted to authorize Iraq, then flipped with public opinion, and fought against the surge.
I’d like to see Hitchens’ take on Hillary or Lurch as SofS, though.
A similar situation developed when Abraham Lincoln appointed William H. Seward (Senator from New York) to be his Secretary of State. Seward had earlier been the favorite for the presidential nomination. He started out wrong with Lincoln, basically suggesting in an impertinent memorandum that he, Seward, not Lincoln, should run the government. Lincoln had to firmly but politely decline the offer. (The two later developed a good relationship.)
That would make her 4th in line on the succession list. I wouldn’t like to be 1-3.
Thanks for the new tagline!
Just a substitute Dick.
dick who???
I hope she becomes SOS. I know a lot of moonbats that will go ballistic. They hate her so much becuase she almost stood in the way of their precious little Messiah.
Don’t mention it.
Seward was right about a few things, especially what later became our largest state.
Maybe Hillary will suggest something similar, although I can’t think of any unclaimed real estate on the market at this juncture.
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