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Joe Nocera

Hey, how about Bill Clinton for Secretary of State?

Let’s move next to the State Department, where an exhausted Hillary Clinton is ready to step down. She has been, without question, Obama’s finest appointment. She was also his riskiest. The current favorite for the job, Susan Rice, the United Nations ambassador, is a safe choice, but she doesn’t have the breadth that the job requires. Who does? How about Bill Clinton? Seriously…

Department of Defense? David Petraeus. After disclosing an affair with Paula Broadwell and resigning as C.I.A. chief, Petraeus is currently doing his stint in purgatory. The Defense Department in Obama’s second term is going to need someone who can cut its budget without hurting its mission — and who can reform the most entrenched bureaucracy in Washington. The military brass will run bureaucratic circles around any defense secretary who doesn’t know their tricks. Petraeus can stand up to them.

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Let’s move next to the State Department, where an exhausted Hillary Clinton is ready to step down. She has been, without question, Obama’s finest appointment.

Boy, that says a lot about the Obama administration.

Rocks on November 27, 2012 at 1:02 PM

Bil Clinton will never take another job which requires any oversight so you can forget that idea.

The Defense Department in Obama’s second term is going to need someone who can cut its budget without hurting its mission

Translation: We need someone who can sound credible when he lies and says the cuts won’t hurt our mission.

Rocks on November 27, 2012 at 1:04 PM

Let’s move next to the State Department, where an exhausted Hillary Clinton is ready to step down. She has been, without question, Obama’s finest appointment.

yeah, let’s just keep going with the disconnect….

ToddPA on November 27, 2012 at 1:05 PM

Memo to all female State Department personnel:

If his advances last longer than 4 hours, see an attorney.

ToddPA on November 27, 2012 at 1:07 PM

Bill Clinton will be on the Supreme Court by the end of Obama’s Term.

Bank on it.

portlandon on November 27, 2012 at 1:08 PM

Boy joe does have a dandy list for bho doesn’t he? clinton and dp, really? I don’t think those two will make the cut?
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letget on November 27, 2012 at 1:09 PM

The stupid is strong with this one.

The Rogue Tomato on November 27, 2012 at 1:10 PM

But, wouldn’t Bill Clinton roaming the globe at taxpayer expense, looking for MORE women to rape and molest, sort of put a damper on fat, drunken Hillary’s 2016 presidential run?

Pork-Chop on November 27, 2012 at 1:15 PM

Only if he promises us more sex scandals. Seriously, you’ve got to believe that Billy Jeff is incredibly put out that the Secret Service used to have sex orgies on foreign trips and didn’t invite him.

Illinidiva on November 27, 2012 at 1:25 PM

I could see Bill flying on the Austin Powers jumbo jet groping his way toward world peace.

Punchenko on November 27, 2012 at 1:33 PM

How ironic would it be if obozo treated Bill the way Bill treated his underlings? I bet Bill would be smart enough to wash his blue dress.

Flange on November 27, 2012 at 1:42 PM

This reads like something out of the Onion.

There’s so much fail it’s humorous.

CorporatePiggy on November 27, 2012 at 1:48 PM

This guy is a nut.

forest on November 27, 2012 at 1:51 PM

What could go wrong?

Ward Cleaver on November 27, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Here’s the funny part:

When you consider the only other alternatives offered up – Susan Rice and John Kerry – Billy Jeff is actually the best-looking by far.

greggriffith on November 27, 2012 at 2:19 PM

Never happen. His ego won’t let him go to work for Obama. It was one thing to campaign for him on a volunteer basis, another thing entirely to work for him. Clinton was president for 8 years – he’s not about to work for another president.

dczombie on November 27, 2012 at 2:25 PM

What could possibly go wrong?

ConservativeLA on November 27, 2012 at 2:50 PM

The Secretary of State is 4th in the line of succession. Wouldn’t the spirit of the 22nd amendment make Bill Clinton ineligible?

eaglescout_1998 on November 27, 2012 at 2:58 PM

The current favorite for the job, Susan Rice, the United Nations ambassador, is a safe choice, but she doesn’t have the breadth that the job requires. Who does? How about Bill Clinton? Seriously…

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John McCain. Gets him out ouf the Senate, gives him a world stage where he can pontificate ad infinitum, makes him the “bipartisan” confidante in the Øbama regime, and provides a natural ally for an aggressive SecDef.

ExpressoBold on November 27, 2012 at 3:35 PM