Sunday, November 16, 2008

Clinton wants to be Secretary of State !

The New York Times: Reports on the views of the Democratic Foreign Policy Establishment on the idea that Senator Hillary Clinton should be the Secretary of State in a Obama Administration. The article states the following, " Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama ..........are not as far apart on foreign policy — particularly the issues of Iran and Iraq — as they seemed to be during the long primary battle for the Democratic presidential nomination. " As most of the Democratic Foreign Policy Establishment worked for the Clinton White House at one time or another this can be seen as a move by the Clintons to force President - Elect Obama to offer her the job, it seems from a reports that they have meet but there was no direct offer. It can be argued that the Clintons see this a their chance to get back in to power. Lets be very direct here, with Hillary you get Bill, as stated in the past that is a positive and a negative. Also if the Obama Foreign Policy goes in to the toilet, it will be very hard for Obama to sack Hillary Clinton. Also what about Bill Clinton, this is not just a husband or wife, this is a former President of the United States, will stop giving speeches for hundred thousand of dollars, what about the funding for his Presidential Library, lets be honest, you can see companies and countries thinking, how can we get through the Diplomacy, lets see give a large donation to the Clinton Presidential Library. Before you start this is not a critic of Bill Clinton its not, it would not matter to Clinton if you gave his Library Billions, he is more of a power man than money, but its a fault line that others might see and cause problems for Obama. Also can you see Bill Clinton keeping to the Obama Agenda on Foreign Policy, he is a former President. This move by Obama to have Hillary in the Cabinet would be one of the worse mistakes he could make for his Administration.

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