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...maybe she'd help Obama get a few things done, that need doin' right now!
Clinton as top US diplomat? OK by top GOP senator
November 16, 2008 11:26 PM EST

WASHINGTON - The Senate's second-ranking Republican says it wouldn't be a bad idea if President-elect Barack Obama named Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

"It seems to me she's got the experience. She's got the temperament for it. I think she would be well received around the world," said Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz. "So my own initial reaction is it would be a very good selection."

Both Clinton, Obama's fiercest rival for the presidential nomination, and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who also ran for the White House this year, interviewed with Obama in Chicago last week for the post, according to Democratic officials.

In an interview aired Sunday on CBS' "60 Minutes," Obama acknowledged meeting with Clinton last week but refused to say whether she was being considered for a Cabinet position. He also said the Republican party will be represented in his Cabinet.

A team of lawyers with Obama's transition team was examining former President Bill Clinton's foundation and financial ties, The New York Times reported in a story posted on its Web site Sunday night. A Democratic official told The Associated Press that several candidates were being vetted for the position.

Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., said he did not think Hillary Clinton, if nominated, would have trouble winning confirmation in the Democratic-controlled Senate.

"She's worked across the aisle, has good bipartisan relationships," Dorgan said. In the role of chief U.S. diplomat, Clinton "would have instant credibility around the world," he added.

He said the U.S. has "a lot of relationships to repair and a lot of work to do, so I think she'd be a fine choice."

At a symposium organized by the National Bank of Kuwait, former President Bill Clinton said, "If he decided to ask her to do it and they did it together, I think she would be really great at being secretary of state."

Richardson has extensive foreign policy experience. He was President Bill Clinton's ambassador to the United Nations and has conducted freelance diplomacy for the U.S. in Sudan, North Korea and elsewhere.

Richardson and Clinton are not the only candidates Obama has talked to about the job, Democrats said.

Kyl and Dorgan appeared on "Fox News Sunday."

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And although the Repugs hated her back then, it's a different story now. Wonder why the BIG turnabout?



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Five Reasons Hillary Clinton Should Not Be Secretary of State

By Ken Silverstein

It looks like Barack Obama has offered Hillary Clinton the post of Secretary of State and shes mulling over whether to take the job or not. Obamas apparent offer makes him look magnanimous and delights Hillary Clintons former backers, so maybe its smart politics. But there are a number of good reasons why Clinton should not be secretary of state. Here are five:

  1. Hillary Clinton will have her own agenda (as will her husband). Shes not a team player and will bring in a crew of cronies whose chief aim will be to promote the boss, not the administration. Obama may wake up one day and discover that Hillary has decreed a new Clinton Doctrine of foreign policy.

  2. It would be impossible, politically, to fire Hillary. No matter what she says or does, or how insubordinate, Obama will be stuck with her as long as she wants to stay.

  3. Her husband is a walking conflict of interest. Bill helps a Canadian businessman land a uranium contract in Kazakhstan, and soon afterwards the businessman contributes to the Clinton Foundation. Bills personal and business dealings are embarrassing enough without Hillary heading the State Department.

  4. The Clinton style of managementfor example, pitting one faction of staff against anotherwould be a disaster at the State Department. Just look at how well it worked on the campaign trail.

  5. And the strongest strike of all against Hillary as secretary of state look at who endorses her.



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Kissinger. No thanks. I wouldn't buy a used hearse from that nutcase!

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Uke wrote:

Kissinger. No thanks. I wouldn't buy a used hearse from that nutcase!


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