'Hillbilly's' hubbie gets a shakedown

I can't help wondering if 'Oprah' Obama has made his first big mistake.  I know Pres. Johnson's famous adage concerning the desirability of having your enemies inside the tent pissing out rather than the opposite, but even so, the Clintons can only be described as toxic.  It is surely totally embarrassing and humiliating for Bill, a former president, to be made to declare the name of every single donar to his various mysterious funds.  It is quite clear that 'Oprah' Obama assumes he's a crook and wants to make sure that the provenence of every single dollar is accounted for.  The question is, why didn't Bill tell him to take a running jump?  I can only think that 'Hillbilly' has the dirts on him and told him to do whatever it takes to get her the job of Secretary of State -  or else!

Another question is whether or not she's up to the job?  It seems to me, from a distance, that she has two qualifications.  First, she's tough and ruthless; and second, she appears to have a gut feeling for what is in America's interest and what is not.  However, against that one wonders if she's intelligent enough to translate a policy into action.  Her command of her election campaign was complacent to begin with and then emotionally hysterical to end with and she deserved to lose.  Also, I remember when Bill gave her the job of inflicting a nationalised health service on America she made a complete 'cods' of the job.

Well, I suspect that it will not matter that much because I think Obama will 'do a Roosevelt', by which I mean that he will pick several different advisers part of whose remit will be foreign policy and let them fight it out between them whilst he remains aloof as the final arbiter but not necessarily letting the left hand know what the right hand is doing.  It's not a very good way to run a foreign policy but then again, Roosevelt wasn't much of a president, either.

Comments

[dearieme]

Or. Perhaps. Maybe he'll have had her resign her Senate seat and then he'll give her enough rope to hang herself by cocking up in the State Department, and then when the mid-terms are past in two years time, he'll sack her. She'll then have to decide whether she gives up, or runs for a Congressional seat in 2012 or runs against him.

[David & Son of Duff]

Honestly, 'DM', you should have been a politician! Incidentally, I read somewhere that poor Master Obama has already developed a tic in his right eye due to stress. Can't help wondering if it will spread to Dr. Strangelove proportions.

[JK]

Not that I disagree with you Mr. Duff, heck I've even sent a link or two to our esteemed e-pal.

Actually I rather attribute Okra'a success in no small part to this guy anyway. Back during our primaries he went so far as to advise Republicans to cross over and vote for Hillary. I suppose his "strategy," well cross that out, I suppose his "thinking" was that he could mobilize the Republicans better if Billary was on the ticket.

I suppose Rush might've been under the effects of oxycodone.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081201/ap_on_en_tv/tv_limbaugh_hillary_clinton

[Hank]

David

Senator Clinton MUST resign her Senate seat to accept a cabinet post. The Sec of State has a prohibition against partisan politics suporting the President to maintain at least the appearance of impartiality. I do wonder what her plan is because this will cut her political strength. I suspect she is vying for Vice President in the second term and a lock on 2016.

But I do not think it is a good appointment. One she still has two much clout to be fired so she can dictate to the president. One sign of an effective Secretary of State is a complete meeting of the minds with the president. If Whitehall sees any blue space between them they will drive wedge. And so will every one else. One of the better suggestions I have read is that Obama is not really interested in foreign relations and he is outsourcing it to the Clintons.

But who knows, maybe I will be pleasantly surprised.