It’s official
Dec 1, 2008, 8:02 AM | Updated: Mar 28, 2011, 3:49 pm
Monday’s commentary
Read along:
The President elect chooses his chief rival for Secretary of State:
“She has served on the Armed Services Committee in the Senate. She knows world leaders around the world.”- Barack Obama
Say, haven’t we heard that before?
“Someone who already knows the world leaders, knows the military…”- campaign ad
Who says campaign ads don’t work?
All Senator Clinton has to do was take care of the Bill connection — the obvious conflict of a Secretary of State married to a man whose foundation takes huge donations including a reported ten million dollars from the Saudi royal family.
So the Obama team set out the conditions:
Bill discloses the names of every donor going back 11 years, he must refuse donations from foreign governments, accept White House review of his speaking schedule, accept an ethical review of any new sources of income, and step away from day to day management of the Global Initiative that HE founded.
Wow. Why didn’t they just send him to an undisclosed location?
She CLEARLY wanted this job, and a little thing like her husband wasn’t going to get in the way.
And why would she want this job instead of a cushy lifetime Senate seat?
Well, look what we saw in the campaign. In every town she held endless Q&A’s. She was ready to solve any problem. She had a road map for every policy question.
Obviously she hoped she’d be fixing the economy and health care, but if you need to fix things, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, the Israelis, and the Palestinians might be sufficiently fulfilling.
Because unlike most of us, this is a woman who has no interest in getting a full night’s sleep.
“It’s 3 a.m. Who do you want answering the phone?”- campaign ad
And Bill’s also promised that ringing phones don’t wake him up.
