NationStates Jolt Archive

But she isnt.
Captain Obvious states the obvious, yet misses the obvious part of my post, in that she is qualified and I believe she would make a great S of S.

Of course, HRC is qualified for the job.....hell she could have been the President elect right now!!

Well there's a surprise...

Here's a twist: Ted Kennedy offers a bribe / excuse to stay in the Senate (http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/kennedy-taps-clinton-for-big-health-reform-job-2008-11-18.html)

Fourteen years after failing to deliver health reform for her husband’s White House, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) will play a key role in advancing the issue in 2009 — if she remains in the Senate.

Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) designated Clinton to head a task force to develop a Senate Democratic proposal to expand health insurance coverage as part of his larger push to move a major overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system next year.

Kennedy’s designation of Clinton as one of three senators to lead a healthcare task force provides her with an opportunity to make a significant contribution to an issue that has defined her political career.
Clinton, however, may have her sights on foreign policy, not domestic concerns. She is reportedly under consideration to serve as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of State, a position that would take her out of the healthcare debate.

Clinton is a junior member of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, which Kennedy chairs, but has been a prominent Democratic voice on healthcare issues dating back to President Clinton’s first term, when she led the administration’s ultimately unsuccessful effort to reform healthcare.

Were Clinton to remain in Congress, there are no clear avenues for her to assume a formal leadership position or chair a committee.

Being given a influential position on health reform may serve as some consolation, and expanding healthcare coverage is arguably the most important and contentious component of the Democratic health reform platform.

Aides: Obama plans to nominate Clinton (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama_cabinet)

Don't you love top secret secrets?

Of course, HRC is qualified for the job.....hell she could have been the President elect right now!!

So could have LG. Or Cat Tribes. Or heck, TAI, heaven forbid.

Could have beens are the gripes of someone who wants, but doesn't have, a time machine.

I want to be Secretary of Education. I have a lot to teach. :D
You should be Ambassodor to the UN.

Of course, HRC is qualified for the job.....hell she could have been the President elect right now!!

So could Biden. Or McCain. Or I myself, had I been born in the US. Or, Heaven, Hell and Earth forbid, Palin. Or Palin's child if he had been born 35 years earlier and weren't retarded (no matter how big a subsect of the electorate this might attract, I don't think it's legal. TCT or Neo, could you help me out with this question?). History is not built on "ifs". I do know Biden would make a better President than her, so would I and McCain wouldn't. Palin surely wouldn't, her child might. But that's neither a here nor a there.

i thought id post christopher hitchen's opinion of hrc as sec of state just to make heikoku feel better

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/17/christopher-hitchens-call_n_144465.html

i hope the video works for him.

hitchens called the idea of hrc as sec of state a ludicrous embarrassment.

Well, he's an idiot on the Iraq issue, but he's right on this one. And on Kissinger.

And it seems it's official, Obama rewarded her bad behavior by saying he'll offer her the SoS post.

Ah well.

On the bright side, it'll make it that harder for her to run against him or sabotage him later on - she won't get to be President in 2012 either way if a failed Presidency has her as SoS. Keep your enemies closer...

From what I've heard she's considering not accepting. Didn't Ted Kenedy just announce her role in the new effort to deal with Health Care? The speculation is he wouldn't have done that if HRC was going to take Secretary of State, which makes sense to me.

Palin's child if he had been born 35 years earlier and weren't retarded (no matter how big a subsect of the electorate this might attract, I don't think it's legal. TCT or Neo, could you help me out with this question?)
There is no legal requirement that the President possess any brains whatsoever-- fortunately, or else the office would have had to be declared officially vacant for much of our history.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7743113.stm

Hillary Clinton will agree to serve as secretary of state in US President-elect Barack Obama's cabinet, the New York Times has reported.
The paper quotes two "confidants" as saying Mrs Clinton has decided to quit her Senate position for the job.

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Reports also suggest Mr Obama is likely to pick former presidential candidate and New Mexico Gov Bill Richardson as commerce secretary.
Meanwhile, NBC News reported that Timothy Geithner, president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, is expected to be nominated to the post of US Treasury secretary.

Won't be made official until after Thanksgiving supposedly.