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Hildebeast named as Sec of State | ||
2008-12-01 | ||
President-elect Barack Obama will confirm Hillary Rodham Clinton as his nominee for secretary of state today at a joint appearance in Chicago finalising the incoming national security team. The announcement will end weeks of speculation and behind-the-scenes negotiation, but in turn opens the latest chapter in the Clinton drama. Alongside the Clinton nomination, Obama is also expected to confirm his decision to continue with Robert Gates, the current secretary of defence, and to appoint retired US marine general James Jones as his national security adviser. The path to the nomination was cleared for Clinton after her advisers and the Obama transition team agreed on measures related to the activities of her husband, former president Bill Clinton, and his charity, the Clinton Global Initiative. Most notably, Bill Clinton has agreed to divulge the identities of 208,000 donors to his presidential library and foundation. He also agreed to identify all future donors.
The potential conflict of interest between the former president's activities and his wife's new job offer was just one stumbling block to her accepting the nomination. Foreign policy was one of the major differences between Clinton and Obama during their long-fought battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. Much of Obama's early campaign was centred on his position as the only major candidate to have opposed the war in Iraq from the start. His campaign made much of Senator Clinton's vote in favour of the war, while she in turn dismissed his opposition, remarking that "many people gave speeches against the war" in 2002. "That was then; this is now," David Gergen, who worked in the White House under Clinton and Reagan, told Associated Press. "Campaigns are ever thus. There is a recognition that campaigns bring a certain amount of hyperbole, and when it's over you try to find the most talented people you can find to work with you." However, some shadows remain from the primary campaign. Samantha Power, the Obama adviser forced to leave her post after describing Clinton as a "monster", has joined Obama's transition team, where she is advising the incoming administration on national security agencies, including Clinton's new fiefdom, the state department. The strong foreign policy voices within the cabinet include not only Clinton, but vice-president Joe Biden, who has served as chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee since January 2007.
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Posted by:Steve White |
#20 bourn, bourne n. Archaic 1. A destination; a goal. 2. A boundary; a limit. [French bourne, from French dialectal bosne, borne, from Old French bodne, limit, boundary marker, from Medieval Latin bodina, of Celtic origin.] /I looked it up on Dictionary.com. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2008-12-01 17:12 |
#19 Soon to be shuffled off to the Supreme Court, from whose bourne no man returns... |
Posted by: mojo 2008-12-01 16:33 |
#18 Golf Bravo, That was real Hillarity. Luckily, just finished the coffee. |
Posted by: Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-12-01 14:25 |
#17 Call me crazy it seems to me that putting the Hildebeeste 4th in line for the Presidency isn't something that a person hoping to live to what might be considered a "ripe old age" would want to do. |
Posted by: AzCat 2008-12-01 13:54 |
#16 While Bill has agreed to list the donors, he hasn't to my knowledge, agreed to say how much each gave. Expect more drama to come. Also, there will certainly be a foreign screw up in the first year or so and with luck and a complicit press, Obama could blame Hil and pretty much end her political career then and there. |
Posted by: mhw 2008-12-01 13:21 |
#15 Sadly, it seems so. |
Posted by: Hellfish 2008-12-01 12:29 |
#14 But...its a 'living Constitution' [ie we make it up as we go along to fit our needs. And we all know the needs of a few exceed the guarantees of the many]. |
Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-12-01 11:23 |
#13 yes, it would be a violation of said clause. |
Posted by: Broadhead6 2008-12-01 10:34 |
#12 |
Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-12-01 09:56 |
#11 Emoluments clause has been honored in the breech by Nixon and Carter at least. Clinton for Les Aspin? The list goes on forever I suspect. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2008-12-01 09:18 |
#10 What happened to the Emmoluments Clause? We're blowing that off like the citizenship requirement for President? |
Posted by: Hellfish 2008-12-01 08:29 |
#9 Obama, Biden, Pelosi and Byrd better not travel together or visit Ft. Marcy Park |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-01 07:46 |
#8 Hillary Poisoned chalice No assembly required |
Posted by: phil_b 2008-12-01 07:43 |
#7 cognitive dissonance involves thinking and reflection, neither of which are strong traits among KosKiddies |
Posted by: Frank G 2008-12-01 07:39 |
#6 Remember back in the primaries? Hillary was unacceptable--unacceptable!!!!--to the moonbat Left because of her support of the Iraq war. So instead, the moonbats back Obama, who, once he's in power, names unacceptable warmonger Hillary as his Secretary of State. The Kos kiddies must be beside themselves with cognitive dissonance. |
Posted by: Mike 2008-12-01 06:57 |
#5 BrerRabbit, nope. There is lotsa failures to be made by Obamarx and his requirement for scapegoats will be not marginal. HRC is as good as cooked, she just does not know it yet and she is on a borrowed time. |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-12-01 04:23 |
#4 And in 4 years she'll have her foreign policy creds. She'll be running for president forever. |
Posted by: BrerRabbit 2008-12-01 04:14 |
#3 State is full of two faced leakers, personal bureaucratic empire builders, narcissistic pseudo-intellectuals from ivy league schools, and sanctimonious assholes. Have fun Hill. |
Posted by: OldSpook 2008-12-01 03:39 |
#2 Aah, lust for power (any power) beats sanity hands down in Hillary's case. She's a sheep and in a few years she'll transmogrify into a marvelous scapegoat. Most of clintonistas under Obamarx will, too. |
Posted by: Spike Uniter 2008-12-01 03:11 |
#1 Can't wait for Bill to offer to present his credentials: "They're right here ... in my diplomatic pouch." |
Posted by: Seafarious 2008-12-01 00:38 |