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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Of course, Alaska wasn’t unclaimed, but purchased.
We should thank Seward for giving us Sarah.
He meant that when he was through with us all we’d have left was change.
It would be a shrewd move on her part. Good pad for the resume and the 2016 Presidential run. She will be 65.
Well, it will keep her traveling, and generally nowhere near the White House. He won’t have to have a couple food tasters anyway.
Yeah but at 65 the expiration date on those eggs will be well past their prime.
I can’t imagine Hillary accepting. Think on it. The SOS bascially has to do the president’s will. Look at Condi. Look at Powell. He obviously had differences from Bush, but couldn’t really talk about it, so it became gossip. The SOS goes over the world, being, as it were, the president’s assistant.
Why would Hillary do that? The Senate is poised to become the most powerful democrat Senate in years. Kennedy, who this election I have been led to believe is Hillary’s nemesis, is gone. She is one of the old guard now.
A Senator can say what they want, create all the havoc they want. She doesn’t have to run anything. All she has to do is talk. She can set herself up in subtle opposition to Obama if she chooses.
My guess is she won’t take it.
Clearly, the concept of “change” is a much tortured term.
“Change” from ANYTHING that George W. Bush may have brought about. Almost all the Executive Orders issued by Bush are going to be disavowed or countermanded, either in legislation or in a total reversal of the policy established by them.
Bush Derangement Syndrome has not ended by any means. They may even considering applying some kind of “war crimes” statute against the Bush Administration.
The appointment of Herself, still the Cold and Joyless, is just one more example of how wide and deep this “change” may be expected to encompass.
Even going backwards is “change”.
Obama gets Clinton out of the Senate and into the Administration (under him). She (and Bill) have to tow the Obama line.
She gets international exposure and begins to campaign for the job she really wants......... Secretary-General of the U.N.
Forget SCOTUS - you don't get to hand out money from the bench.......
That is so freakin' old. Is that some Pavlovian reaction you have?
And if that doesn't work, she can just show them some leg!
Two scenarios - seeing that Sec. of States, esp. the first ones, rarely last more than 2 years, Maybe Obama wants to appoint her to “get her out of the way.” Could she challenge him more in the senate?
Don’t know why Hillary would take it - would mean giving up her Senate seat. Then what?
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