Report: Special, special lady being considered for Secretary of State
posted at 4:00 pm on November 13, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Rahm as chief of staff, Podesta as head of the transition team, Summers or Rubin at Treasury, and now Her Majesty at State?
Why’d they nominate Hopenchange instead of her if we’re only going to get Clinton retreads anyway?
There’s increasing chatter in political circles that the Obama camp is not overly happy with the usual suspects for Secretary of State these days and that the field may be expanding somewhat beyond Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.), Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) and maybe former Democratic senator Sam Nunn of Georgia.
There’s talk, indeed, that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) may now be under consideration for the post. Her office referred any questions to the Obama transition; Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor declined to comment.
As much as I’d prefer a SoS who helped designate the Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization and who speculated publicly about possibly having to nuke Iran to a tool who played useful idiot to the mullahs at Davos by badmouthing Bush, why would Obama have an issue with Kerry or Richardson as frontrunners? If she stays in the Senate, she’s bound to end up as a point man on health care anyway, which should be enough to placate the PUMAs ahead of 2012. Naming Richardson, who’s got more experience than she does, would help him lock up Latinos, and naming Kerry would signal that he’s ready to pass “the global test.” Naming Hillary achieves nothing, really. Exit question: Anything to this at all?
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Evil Cackles!! The Clintons always win.
Illinidiva on November 13, 2008 at 4:03 PM
Nah. Can’t see it happening. There is little incentive for either to offer/accept the position.
Abby Adams on November 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM
I read this too fast. I thought you wrote Clinton retards
Best laugh I had all day, even if you didn’t write it.
DocKen on November 13, 2008 at 4:04 PM
Maybe he wants to clear the seat for Michelle in 2016.
Big S on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
My prediction, there will be a revolving door in Obama’s cabinet…. it’ll be impossible to keep track.
Obamalama Deprogrammer on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
So when is Gennifer Flowers’ name gonna pop up? How ’bout Lewinski? This Change sure feels a lot like the ’90s.
If I pop in some Pearl Jam and drink a Fruitopia, I wonder if I can reverse my student loan debt.
robblefarian on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
I’d rather see her as Majority leader. (Actually I’d rather see her as Minority leaser, but that’s water under the dam…)
oddball on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
It gets her out of the Senate so that she does not play Maverick to Obama’s Bush.
rw on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
At least she has the ability and temperament to face down Putin.
Realist on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
Isn’t [The Haughty] John Kerry [Who Served in Viet Nam] the other option? I mean this looks to be a lose-lose no matter how you toss it.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:05 PM
To quote a very good song:
You must be a special lady. And a very important girl… yeah, you gotta be a special lady, cause you’re sitting on top of the world….
pullingmyhairout on November 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM
In the mind of Obama, no one messes with Obama and gets away with it (in his mind). Therefore, Hillary may be toyed with, but she won’t get anything for free.
indythinker on November 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Trial balloon – a bone to the press and blogs to keep them chewing on something new instead of talking about Obama.
albill on November 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM
Breaking News:
Seven Percent Solution on November 13, 2008 at 4:06 PM
If only…
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Richardson should get it for his betrayal of the Clintons (in the library, with the pipe) in the primaries.
Though, John Kerry running around the world announcing himself as “John Kerry, Secretary of State, I served in Vietnam” would be amusing.
Nothing to it, I think.
Spirit of 1776 on November 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM
I guess it would be better than a return of Madeline Not-so-brite…
phreshone on November 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM
elections have consequences, on the bright note he leaving would leave governor patterson in the position of filling her seat. This in turn would create another seat democrats would have to defend in 2010. Blue or not, repubs can win in New York (Rudy G). At the very least we can make the Democrats squander time and resources. Any way I am skeptical, would Obama really want her in a position of that much power?
rob verdi on November 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM
So much for dinner. What an ugly thing to do to the world.
MikeA on November 13, 2008 at 4:07 PM
Please, anybody but Kerry, but Cankles would rather run against Palin.
infidel on November 13, 2008 at 4:08 PM
How far down the line of succession is SoS?
Richardson would also be another Clinton retread.
rbj on November 13, 2008 at 4:08 PM
I would take Richardson or Nunn over any of those tools.
Squid Shark on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
What does it matter?
BHO will do for the country what he has already done to South Chicago.
Most viloent city in the US with the worst schools.
Bravo community organizer – well done !
DeweyWins on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Yeah, but naming her sets up a “Ron Brown” incident. Then the PUMAs get a martyr and the field is clear in 2012.
Iblis on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
-SNARK!!-
“They’re all guilty, take ‘em away. And now I’m gonna go home to my wife!!”
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
Oh good lord – I just want The Clintons to be gone, gone, gone. So tired of them hanging around since Slick Willy was elected in 92′.
corvettelady on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
How about that fat dude that gets his arm hacked off by Stelios in “300.”
I mean, if you’re going to represent the God-King.
CurtZHP on November 13, 2008 at 4:09 PM
I wonder if Pootie-Poo would threaten to cut her balls off too?
Red State State of Mind on November 13, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer ?
Maybe Barry knows his foreign policy will fail and he wants to set up Hillary as the fall girl ?
William Amos on November 13, 2008 at 4:10 PM
Fifth
It is the senior cabinet post.
VP
Speaker
President Pro Tem
Cabinet in order of Seniority
SOS
SOD
SOT
AG
etc.
Squid Shark on November 13, 2008 at 4:10 PM
I liked ‘em better when they were still “The Moments”. Love on a Two Street could also apply here.
Got both songs on the iPod.
You gots good taste in music. How ’bout some Gamble and Huff?
robblefarian on November 13, 2008 at 4:10 PM
No way, surely there is a law against it.
If not, can we get one ginned up quickly!
kybowexar on November 13, 2008 at 4:11 PM
Hillarious. The incompetence of this group of clowns is amazing.
Vashta.Nerada on November 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM
This is really the best suggestion I’ve heard on the Dem side. Hillary is so much better prepared than Obama it’s not even funny and I would welcome her as a top advisor.
While I voted for McCain, I think that the Clintons are acceptable in this area. I do not think they will make the mistake of dismissing and ignoring islamists again and they are not similar to the nutcases that usually surround him.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 4:12 PM
In other news:
Seven Percent Solution on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
*munching on popcorn*
Clinton Inc. Vs. Cook County.
Punchenko on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
The more I think on it, the more I agree.
Squid Shark on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Before Hillary is set up as a “fall girl” she will see Barry’s error and resign to a chorus of applause.
Obama will fall on his face alone.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Oh SH*T!
HornetSting on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Cool… Need to get the flannel shirts out of mothballs and pop in the My So-Called Life DVDs.
Illinidiva on November 13, 2008 at 4:13 PM
Barry is a true believer. Or so Michelle tells us.
Spirit of 1776 on November 13, 2008 at 4:14 PM
She’d be foolish to associate herself that closely with The one’s admin,
if, when he fails, she’ll go down too… I think she’ll hold out to be a Supreme…Job security is better.
beththebaker on November 13, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Bingo.
Bruno Strozek on November 13, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Fify.
HornetSting on November 13, 2008 at 4:14 PM
Obama has to pay her off somehow, either in the Senate or out of the country. He would get both of them for the price of one as SoS. That might not be so bad. Bill let Osama get away in the 1990’s so that might go over big with the average suicide bomber.
Sweetness0726 on November 13, 2008 at 4:14 PM
What of the speculation that Hillary will take over the Senate Majority leadership?
maverick muse on November 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM
Nah barry will just said “See I sent Hillary out to do a job and she failed and wants to point fingers. She has no clue on how to do diplomacy”
And the Obots will eat it up.
William Amos on November 13, 2008 at 4:16 PM
Good point….
beththebaker on November 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM
+100
Squid Shark on November 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM
Hot air. No pun intended.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:17 PM
No, William Amos, Barry will send her out to do a foolish job and she will refuse, i.e. undermine Israel or kiss-ass with Iran. The country will go with her. The Obots will eventually leave the borg collective.
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 4:18 PM
..Scurrying up into the attic, now, where did I put those Doc Martens? Oh, yeah, still where them. Ooops.
I loved the 90’s bring it ON!
HornetSting on November 13, 2008 at 4:19 PM
I am eagerly awaiting the Jocelyn Elders comeback.
Mark1971 on November 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Kerry would be beyond “amusing”, he’d be hilariously embarrassing, to the U.S., and the next pres., and the O camp knows this, just as does Mrs. Heinz.
On the plus side, Hillary knows where Bosnia is. She’s been there already, after all.
Schadenfreude on November 13, 2008 at 4:20 PM
Not so sure… it’ll be he said she said… depends on how far along the re-education is…hmmm
beththebaker on November 13, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Payback? But he hasn’t even reimbursed her campaign debt yet.
Count to 10 on November 13, 2008 at 4:22 PM
Not really, as she’d upstage the O several times a day, and he knows it.
Schadenfreude on November 13, 2008 at 4:22 PM
The “change” we need.
crazy_legs on November 13, 2008 at 4:23 PM
Hillary is really a big, living, political corpse, they don’t know what to do with.
Schadenfreude on November 13, 2008 at 4:24 PM
It would be a big improvement over John Kerry. At least Hillary is smart enough to know when she’s getting rolled. Whether the Messiah will let her do anything about it is another story.
RBMN on November 13, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Kerry, Secretary of State?
Will he meet secretly with the Russians this time?
Lord help us.
KeepOhioRed on November 13, 2008 at 4:25 PM
Zombies? Y’know, just a thought.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:25 PM
My prediction is eventually reality catches up with Obama, he resigns in disgrace after cutting a deal, and Hillary runs in 2012
clnurnberg on November 13, 2008 at 4:25 PM
I was thinking she’d be better as SecDef.
DaveO on November 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM
I do not think they will make the mistake of dismissing and ignoring islamists again and they are not similar to the nutcases that usually surround him.
I’m not that great at all this choosing a cabinet discussion, but this (above) seems like a reasonable statement, hey? Remember that big mess with the ports? Hillary was one of the ones who spoke out against the purchase, if I remember correctly.
fireweednectar on November 13, 2008 at 4:26 PM
Aside from Rahm that actually looks fairly promising from a policy point of view. Summers/Rubin on economic policy and Hillary on foreign policy seems reasonable enough to me, unless its all just window dressing.
phronesis on November 13, 2008 at 4:27 PM
Barney Frank stands a chance. It all depends upon what “special” means.
viking01 on November 13, 2008 at 4:28 PM
The Obama administration will be overcome with scandals. They won’t be able to police and contain themselves.
Firebird on November 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM
It might happen because Nancy Pelosi is Queen of the Hill, and there can be only one!
Dreadnought223 on November 13, 2008 at 4:29 PM
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I could live with that. Added bonus: no McCain running.
Vashta.Nerada on November 13, 2008 at 4:30 PM
PUMAs were a myth. Or irrelevant.
Take your pick.
p0s3r on November 13, 2008 at 4:31 PM
Not sure I agree with the idea that “naming Richardson, who’s got more experience than she does, would help him lock up Latinos.” I don’t think any first-generation Latinos, or second- for that matter, have any idea that Bill Richardson is even alive.
I think if he’s looking to lock up the Latino vote, he’d go for Hillary. Latinos would much rather see her in a prominent role than the Latino with the Whitest name in history.
jtorres138 on November 13, 2008 at 4:31 PM
If she accepted the position, it would open the door to Rudy for Senate 2010.
Madame Secretary! Has anyone seen Vince? Vince?
Steve Z on November 13, 2008 at 4:32 PM
At least they’ll be prepared to do a lot of apologizing….
ironman on November 13, 2008 at 4:32 PM
I’d pick irrelevant, given that 16% of her supporters could not overcome 10% of conservatives staying home on election day.
Vashta.Nerada on November 13, 2008 at 4:32 PM
You have got to be kidding me. Just the thought of Hillary being in any cabinet position makes me puke in my mouth. Well at least he has not suggested her for the Supreme Court.
Irvin88 on November 13, 2008 at 4:33 PM
Careful. Obama trolls trawl here.
Sapwolf on November 13, 2008 at 4:35 PM
Maybe its so Obama will have someone he can blame when his foreign policy inevitably falls flat on its face.
Dreadnought223 on November 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM
With Hillary travelling all the time as SoS…
Party at Bubba’s house!
Mr_Magoo on November 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM
What’s your problem with her on foreign policy? I wouldn’t want to see her as healthcare czar but she seems about as assertive and hawkish as democrats come in terms of foreign issues.
phronesis on November 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM
To rub our faces in it.
Grafted on November 13, 2008 at 4:36 PM
It’s sad but this made me laugh.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:37 PM
There’s nothing to this. Just idle speculation…but if it does come to pass, Allah’s question is a good one. Why nominate the One if you’re just getting Clintonites anyway? Odd…
changer1701 on November 13, 2008 at 4:39 PM
I’d rather have her at State than John Kerry (who served in Vietnam) or Richardson.
CP on November 13, 2008 at 4:44 PM
She’s the best of a bad bunch. PLEASE GOD NOT KERRY
lodge on November 13, 2008 at 4:46 PM
Hillary ought to be right at home at State. After all, the DoS functionaries are old hands at undermining Presidents.
Farmer_Joe on November 13, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Possibly because the Clintonites are the only Democrats around with recent White House and executive branch experience. It wouldn’t surprise me though that once Obama is up and running you see a gradual replacement of Clintonites in senior positions with Obamiods who have been promoted from junior positions in his administration who have gained on the job training.
Dreadnought223 on November 13, 2008 at 4:48 PM
Okay, this is weird…I looked for my post, using my name and couldn’t find it. So I pasted in “find” part of the post, and yours came up…this is the rub, exact same words, exactly (including the extra space before ?) what I had written I posted was about (as close as I can tell) the same time (cue strange music).
Are you me or me you?
right2bright on November 13, 2008 at 4:48 PM
No, no, no… it’s “I’m gonna go home and sleep with my wife.” Geez.
Abby Adams on November 13, 2008 at 4:49 PM
She may not be much, but she sure beats Kerry, Holbrooke, Albright and PeeWee Herman.
But I’d put odds against it happening.
petefrt on November 13, 2008 at 4:54 PM
Bleh, it’s been a few years.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 4:55 PM
But c’mon… it’s like one of the best movies to quote ever.
Abby Adams on November 13, 2008 at 5:00 PM
Oh I agree. I just meant it’s been a while since I’ve seen it so not getting the quote exactly right is to be expected ;)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on November 13, 2008 at 5:04 PM
If Hillary does become SOS, she should take a page from the Sarah Palin Political Playbook: buy new clothes. I cannot handle those pantsuits another minute.
It’s shallow… I know.
fiscallyconservative on November 13, 2008 at 5:10 PM
i want to read how she fills out that questionaire they are circulating for people who want Obama Administration jobs.
flyoverland on November 13, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I don’t think she would even consider it. Two females have gone before her. She wants a slot that will put her in the history books. She isn’t leaving this earth just being Mrs. Bill Clinton or a State Senator.
sherry on November 13, 2008 at 5:26 PM
SoS Clinton would be better than Justice Clinton
multiuseless on November 13, 2008 at 5:31 PM
hear that? final nail in the US coffin.
angryed on November 13, 2008 at 5:35 PM
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