I don’t know what utility inserting Sec. Clinton into the health care process would solve. She’s the Secretary Of State, a full plate job during more tranquil times, let alone in the wake of the failed Bush administration. No doubt she’s passionate about the issue and has a history with it, but I don’t think this is a job for her.
Sounds like George Stephanopoulos playing fantasy football.
Nobody has more to gain from Obama’s failure than Clinton. Keep them close, but not *that* close, I think.
Yeah because we have a history of electing Secretary of States of failed administrations to the Presidency.
Sheesh some people will never let the primary go.
As for Hillary getting involved with healthcare I think that’s just George S trying to drum up some interest. There ain’t a chance in hell of that happening. Hell her husband just brought back two American journalists a couple weeks ago and FoxNews is running polls about him emboldening terrorist kidnappers. That is blowback that ths administration doesn’t need AT ALL.
Sure! Give Hillary something to do because what she’s doing now is obviously not working.
Everyday, it’s something new with this administration. What a bunch of incompetent clowns.
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE57I6HW20090819
‘Everyday, it’s something new with this administration. What a bunch of incompetent clowns.’
No kidding; imagine starting a war based on lies, fucking it up, draining the economy, alienating allies the world over, torturing people in secret prisons, allowing a major US city to be destroyed, cooking the books so two failed wars don’t appear in the budget, pissing all over the Constitution, hiring mercenaries to kill your enemies…..
Oh….wait a minute…that was YOUR guy….
Oh….wait a minute…that was YOUR guy….
Indeed. As bumbling and incompetent as Team Obama may be, it will be dang near impossible to top the previous crew.
But Indeed, they certainly seem to be giving it the old college try.
Obama must really detest Hillary. He makes her Sec State, then takes away key regions for “special envoys,” makes the UN Ambassador her peer instead of her subordinate, and now is floating the idea of rubbing her face in her own previous failure to bring about “health care financing reform” because she obviously doesn’t have enough on her plate already.
No wonder she snapped at that bobbled question in Africa.
J.
Hillary Clinton’s relentless decline continues
Fresh from her seven nation tour of Africa – highlighted by an immensely embarrassing boogie dance in Kenya and an alligator–like snap at a defenceless Congolese student – the almost invisible secretary of state has been given a demotion in the Forbes Magazine annual list of the 100 most powerful women in the world.
Hillary Clinton has slipped eight places from 28 to 36, despite being elevated to the second most powerful position in the US government in January. How she actually achieved that drop in these circumstances would confuse even Sir Isaac Newton, but can be explained by a less than stellar performance in Foggy Bottom……
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She could use the undoubtedly positive press the US media would heap on her, but I agree with Oliver, a bad idea.
But then again, if it fails, they have a familiar face to blame again this time.
Nobody takes those Forbes lists seriously, not even Forbes. Well, maybe one person.
If I remember correctly, isn’t it the Secretary of State’s job to be handling hurricanes around this time of year?
Oh Oliver, you are so predictable. How’s that whistling by the grave yard working out for you?
Forbes uses the highly scientific, super-statistical methodology of ‘influence.’ Which includes mentions in the press. I seem to recall something happening over the course of 2008 that put Sec. Clinton in the news an awful lot…
If I remember correctly, isn’t it the Secretary of State’s job to be handling hurricanes around this time of year?
Nope. Peddling bullshit mushroom cloud scenarios or calling the flattening of Lebanon “the birth pangs of a new Middle East”.
Nope. Peddling bullshit mushroom cloud scenarios or calling the flattening of Lebanon “the birth pangs of a new Middle East”.
No one could have predicted that. Shoe shopping. Also.
Here’s a theory…
“Oh, no, health care financing reform is tanking. Quick, get Hillary on it so we can blame it on her!”
Too bad Hillary’s too canny to fall for that one…
again…
J.
Jay Tea; There will not be enough contortionists in all the land to put the blame outside the White House. Pres Obama ran on it, he promised it, he claimed he was elected because the people wanted it. Now, when the people have seen that his idea of “reform” is like a mechanic ‘fixing’ your car, by replacing its engine, drive shaft and transmission, they are more than hesitant, they are downright pissed.
Unless this ObamaCare gets watered down to expanded Medicaid, his goose is cooked.
I agree. But I do think inserting Michelle might help.
From a personal perspective, she intimately knows how a family illness can impact a family. RE: Her father. Also, she has a talent that Obama and Sec. Clinton do not. She knows how to emotionally connect with people.
Its whistling past the graveyard to say these Forbes list are irrelevant? Give me a break.
‘Indeed. As bumbling and incompetent as Team Obama may be, it will be dang near impossible to top the previous crew.’
You’ve got pretty loose interpretations of ‘bumbling and incompetent.’
President Obama has been cleaning up the Bush bed wetting since he was inaugurated; the difference is he admits his missteps, whereas Bush only admitted everything he fucked up was ordained by God.
‘No wonder she snapped at that bobbled question in Africa.’
The guy who asked the question said he meant to say President Obama, not Clinton, but he was misquoted.
If Hilary doesn’t like the gig, she can always resign, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. She will continue to play an increasingly important role as the administration looks to repair the endless damage done by 8 years of ignorant policy isolation at the hands of Dumbya.
‘“Oh, no, health care financing reform is tanking. Quick, get Hillary on it so we can blame it on her!”’
The only thing continuing to tank is Right wing credibility on any damn issue under the sun.
‘Also, she has a talent that Obama and Sec. Clinton do not. She knows how to emotionally connect with people.’
Yeah, the President only won a landslide victory in November; what would he know about connecting emotionally with people.
‘From a personal perspective, she intimately knows how a family illness can impact a family. RE: Her father’
President Obama lost his mother to cancer, and lost his grandmother last year after a prolonged illness; I think he has plenty of personal experience on this issue.
Funk, I’ve lost both parents and all four grandparents. I was also an adult when my parents died. Further, I have been hospitalized with a major illness. So, by your standards, I’m more of an expert on the matter than Obama is — and as an expert, I say Obama’s wrong and you’re all wet.
Gee, this is SO much easier than making arguments…
J.
‘Gee, this is SO much easier than making arguments…’
It is when your opinion is completely without merit.
Did your grandparents die in hospital? Did their insurance companies treat them with courtesy and respect? Were their expenses covered due to years of paying into a policy that was supposed to do just that?
Or are you making yet another bullshit analogy?