Nah…Bill’s just a dog…
Mine too. Otherwise Obama owes her the same (recently mostly unreciprocated) courtesy and respect that he’s been showing her all along, and not a whole hell of a lot more.
As a U.S. senator – and one of the few with national name recognition – I think she already has a better job than anything Obama could offer her, including VP or a Cabinet post.
Seriously, what can she be trusted with?
Obviously she can’t be trusted with anything remotely financial
She can’t be trusted not to upstage Barack. That’s why I think it’s hard to find a place anywhere for the both of them.
Bill as ambassador to the UN? No way. He’d constantly be stealing the spotlight all over again. As a President you do need some people with some independence, but not that much.
I can’t think of any position she’d be fit for. Attorney General, maybe, if John Edwards doesn’t want it first. Her one true ability is to ignore reality and spin, spin, spin. She’s the archetypical lawyer/politician if I ever saw one. It might be useful if Obama could somehow harness that talent, but you also have the risk of her and Bill deciding that they want more attention one day.
Not a damn thing but a handshake and a smile.
That’s my feeling as well. Really the only two upgrades I can see are president or a SCOTUS appointment. And he can only offer her one of those two.
I agree that she’s got a better job than any he can offer her. However, he can offer to help her gain seniority on committees, get Bill the hell out of the house/state/country, and pay off the debt. As well as, sadly, push her version of the healthcare plan.
Edit: Giving Bill a really good job, possibly with GHWB, might be a very good thing. They’ve been palling around together, and they can be really effective people.
How can the POTUS do that?
I know it’s a step down from senator, but I’d make her ambassador to Myanmar. She’d terrorize the junta into stepping down and get Aung San Suu Kyi installed as prime minister. I’m kidding, but only just a little.
Works for me!
How about Press Secretary?
I just hope that when Senator Clinton drops out of the race, she’ll be firm about asking her delegates and supporters to support Obama. And she should do that without any quid pro quo, unless she really puts her own ambition above the good of the country (or conflates the two in her mind).
And I’d skip the handshake. And the smile.
A toaster and a round of applause?
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Big Girl Panties
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Yeah, that’s a little uncalled for, but it’s what popped into my head.
Seriously, after all the damage she’s done - self-inflicted, to the party and to Obama, she needs to go home, STFU and concentrate on being an effective statesman like Senator. For 4-8 years if Obama wins, for a minimum of two if he doesn’t.
The POTUS can not offer seniority, but the leader of the Democratic Party might. He can’t give it to her, but he can make his feelings known in support of it.
Hillary is only staying in the race cause she’s vindictive, not of Obama. Look Obama can’t win. He only got the nomination by winning in states that are going to vote Republican in the general election (save his home state). Every state Bush won in 04, McCain will win, and Obama couldn’t beat Hillary in the industrial north, how’s he gonna win them in the general election.
What does this mean? Hillary knows he’ll lose and he will. She is set to run again in 2012 and this way she knows what she has to do for next time and she knows who her allies are. All these people that abandoned the Clintons will be on the “s-list” if Hillary gets the nomination in 2012, which she is likely to since Obama will lose in 2008 and he can’t run again, well he can but no one want to re-nominate a loser.
I don’t believe Hillary could win in Nov 2008 either but Obama would be smarter to drop out let Hillary try and lose then he could re-run in 2012 after he’s gained strength.
So Hillary is defining her “enemies” who once supported her and she’ll use that for the 2012 run.
Obviously Obama and/or Hillary cut a deal with John Edward, come on the guy drops out BEFORE the super Tuesday primary? Why, because both Hillary and Obama made a deal with him. Should Obama win look for Edwards to become Attorny General.
If she gets behind his campaign, it will help a lot. Her supporters would be more likely to root for Obama if she endorses him, and her supporters could do a lot of damage to his campaign if they feel like she was treated unfairly in the primaries.
Of course Obama knows all this. He’s a sharp guy. He’ll do the right thing, regardless of how many of his supporters are spiteful of her.
I hope that she stays Senator from New York, and I hope she takes charge of the health care issue and does it her way. I hope she names the bill in honor of Sen. Kennedy. I hope it is universal coverage. I hope she kills any watered down shit.
It’s pretty clear to me that Obama will not offer her the VP slot, and if I were Hillary, I wouldn’t take it unless he insisted he needed her. VP isn’t worth a warm bucket of spit prior to Cheney, and I don’t want to see that ever repeated. She might be interested in Sec of State, Def or AG, but those are dismissible posts, and I’d really like Edwards as AG, and Obama should be very concerned about Hillary as State upstaging him, so it won’t happen. Hillary probably isn’t interested in Defense. Besides, she is a really good Senator, a work horse and a show horse.
As for appointment to the USSC, people have mentioned that they don’t think she is qualified, but I don’t think they know shit about her legal qualifications, which are quite extensive. Senators have served very influentially as Justices in the past, Hugo Black comes to mind, and he didn’t have the legal experience Hillary has. I do think she is too old to put in such a post, I’d want someone younger who would statistically have a better chance to hold it a longer time.
I also think that the candidates are not obliged to drop out of the race prior to the nominating vote, and Hillary certainly has made this clear as her position. She has said she will support the nominee, specifically mentioning if it is Obama that she would do so. Obama ain’t the nominee yet, and still might not be, although I’ve thought it a done deal since Feb.
I’ll vote for Obama, but his supporters are guilty of virtually every accusation they level at Hillary.
I’d offer her nine and a half inches of prime Kenya blacksnake.